Juneau its great to have you with us on the show. Its changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis its a catastrophe thats not made in africa but its already hits in the continental michael kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. Its a widely held belief here in africa about Climate Change is a problem for the rich its also a prize in the fridays for future protests barely gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participating in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that its poor an ordinary africans were most affected by the impact of Climate Change here in kenya had a running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities as. Desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sprouting all over the continent but the african governments say that they cant do it alone and they need the rest of the world to hold up their end of the bargain. You have mentioned that theres a spreading as average temperatures go up the well doesnt just get hotter droughts and dust storms are also growing more intense our next report. On the edge of assad as it he genes are creeping closer and closer to the coppertone yani some people standing in the way children and teenagers lead the fight this is. Not far away from me on the bank of the river sand dunes have formed but the final trip will enable the peoples to understand the phenomenon of desertification but will also see what people can do locally to stop the spread of the desert and to anchor the sander and. The gigantic dune of such a ray i think gates of the capital niamey the pupils only want one thing to climb on to the dune as quickly as possible. Some of these sand dunes wander up to 20 metres a year depending on the wind their height can reach 30. 00 to 40. 00 metres the pupils are overwhelmed once they get to the top. While its off ive never seen anything like this ive never been here before its so beautiful. Visually. Its good maybe beautiful but its a nightmare for humans and animals so you want if you dont want some variance to bury your homes you have to try to prevent them from shifting. With sand drift fences for example sonny argue but explains what everyone can do to help stop the shifting of the dunes the students are pensive. After seeing this here im quite troubled. As you look at some point the sand could reach the town. That makes me afraid. Theres only sand left here nothing grows here anymore its a real desert. So i think he was advancing and reaches the People Living on the river now and it will be all over. So i said ill get off. The outing had a big effect on the pupils there now motivated over the holidays theyre going to environmental camps where they will set up sandra fences and plant trees anything and everything to stop desertification. Like you just saw him in that report sonny are you is that its a director of young volunteers for the environment sonny welcome to africa now the young people in your project seem surprised at the deserts on the out doorstep how did you realize now how dangerous that is so what i. Want is to be the number 1000. Were going to need new. Or well. Were. Well again it will most all busy people. And it all in and i understand you have a project this weekend its a lot of festival when the faithful slaughter a sheep so what does not have to do with thats it because we have eyes that all want that. Every year is like law dam or 2000 thomas would loose on the only day of people dealing shoes or people in the local or. On the city i dont that comes out to be that went so much or got all i wanted also had one thing and you forced the news of would miss things. And thats why we decided to launch this company on a bus get it will is like neat all to still it waits. And there was citizenship and there was even a ship or moment so thats why you keep on or come to the believe news the consumption would be the 1st thing is a lawyer or an indignity isnt like well its not their mission or their own religion so people can awaited me or they have. It and also is people like i kind of elect ok making that if france where that ok also. Sounds like a very smart idea sonny are you as accounts of their act of young volunteers for the environment thank you. And there. Sunnys for. Is just one of his its of hes involved in another one involves a completely new type of stove that runs on the waste people are using to defy the deficit. And Environmental Protection in action. Xenia is learning from master blacksmith even human mana how to build an oven that works without wood all parts must fit together perfectly so that the oven closes tightly and no heat can escape. Ybor him a man is building a series he just received an order for 50 ovens from the ngo volunteer how porn on feel. To food left in this oven is a tool in the fight against desertification because its not filled with wood but with rice husks the husks cant be used for anything else not even animals but i dont like that every day tons of rice husks accumulate in the state rice factory its waste with no nutritional value everyone who has an oven can get it here for free to use as fuel sunny yuba visit schools to talk about the ovens importance after all trees and bushes hold the desert sand in place so this is about our behavior we have to change our behavior and our way of using Raw Materials we have to as you said correctly use clean energy and especially use Power Sources that allow us to reduce our use of wood. The pupils are allowed to test the oven at home for a week. How bad my money bossa route tells his family how to use the appliance. I wonder. Now we act and it seems easy to use it produces hardly any smoke and you dont need to use wood any more thats good i want to try the oven out properly that the new oven costs about 15 euros and the ngo also gives credit. And my next guest is professor. From the university of hes a study in the environment across south africa. Thanks a lot for your time now your project studies several ecosystems which up mostly dry but not to get that whats happening that well we study it. Up to nose in angola and zambia. And compassing all the different ecosystems and we learned that africa is a walton itself very diverse so we have to distinguish. Well in short we real desert if you cation sense as its expanding in south africa and the maybe especially during the last 5 years there was a perfect storm of Climate Change and intensified land use. Those affecting each other wife is a noles ins is a venice human activities are expanding we see this disappearing. Forest. And there are really dramatic changes really calls for action by politicians. Down the river as drying out what concrete effects on people who live in that. Well again a wide diversity let me take 2 levels in lusaka zambia several times where we experienced up to 48 hours power failure per day there was no electricity in the capital and the who city and the reason was a lack of rainfall and westons mbia and eastern angola many months before and that caused less water and Zambezi River and finally ends a car riba dam so that the remaining water had to be used for agriculture irrigation to avoid food problems and no more water was a lot to runs through the generator systems to get electricity so you see there is a cascading effect there on nexus being very different areas and more important in the country where people clear forests for charcoal they still believe forests are never ending however from our country relations we would say and 5 to 10 to 20 years the different groups will meet in the middle between 2 roads and then there will be no more forests this will be dramatic this will have dramatic Economic Impact and again petitions must set up Management Systems and dramatic problems no matter where you go nobody for you go refer station has been proposed as one of the ways out of the Climate Crisis briefly as a viable solution. Sometimes yes sometimes not a single its over estimated theres a reason why there are no trees in many areas because the soil is sale and you cant clone trees there as a regions you wouldnt like to feel with trees is a beautiful africans of venice was older animals shouldnt disappear because of an open areas of the trees however all the areas that have been de forest during the last decades by human use should be replanted and there again we need political activity to make it happen ok well noted professor jurgens from the south African Science Service center thank you. Thats it for now from africa you can catch stories on our web site on the facebook page. Africas why it will be. A great week. In a bus in itself its not easy to go to another country you know nothing about i dont do this because we cant stay on venezuela. But. Closely global news that matters d. W. Made for mines. Welcome to the girl next. Goldmine of stories. With exclusive. The must see concerning. Your own. 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