In Southern Africa on a daily basis lets take a look at some film for tips from an initiative in botswana the Save Wildlife Conservation Fund how started a campaign to address the plight of the hip hop or thomass in the country more than a 100 hippos are fighting for survival they are crowded together in the few remaining waterholes on the hip prevents them from migrating and finding new ones food is cause so local people have been bringing heavy on water to the polluted water was to counter the damage from the drought crisis the number the aggressive on the most are so hungry that they will approach humans without a talking just to get something to eat. Shocking isnt it prolonged drought in Southern Africa is also threatening 45000000 people with hunger due to loss of harvests big cities may no longer have enough Drinking Water reservoirs drying up here comes up with some appalling fuck about the drought that has been revealed in the region for more than 2 years. A landscape devastated by drought. This elephant died of thirst near a watering hole in zimbabwe Climate Change is having a profound impact on Southern Africa. The average annual temperature in south africas interior is 2 degrees celsius higher than 100 years ago. Weather conditions in the region are growing ever more extreme. Many crops have failed and food prices are soaring in zambia for example the price of corn rose by 80 percent between 20182019. Many people in Southern Africa can no longer afford enough food and hunger is on the rise. Seed banks provide one form of relief they can store the seeds of a variety of drought resistant grains and legumes such as sorghum and chickpeas and to make them available to farmers at low cost. The wetlands can help to keep water in the ground only a 10th of the wetlands on the outskirts of them bob ways capital harare are still intact. These ecosystems contain 36. 00 species of grass and an even greater variety of insects and birds. Environmentalists are fighting to preserve the marshland that remains wetlands play a vital role in storing Carbon Dioxide which helps mitigate Climate Change. So pretty but what can be done to me to get the effect of a dropped it off it was reported on that already in 2018 in cape town things like washing your car phineas finn in full if im letting fountains run are still restricted in 28 if it even 1st day when the city would have been forced to turn of the tops to prevent that now you have town is not investing heavily in water management. At some plates the Construction Works are in full swing the west Water Treatment facility on the outskirts of camp town is currently being upgraded financed through in on by the German Development bank for some fleece the upgrade is long over due the form on top of the wish to water is a clear sign that the plant is struggling currently the progress designed to treat 72000000 liters of water. Flowing into the plant is on average about 90 may so you can see that the problem is overloaded in terms of the amount of flow thats to receiving the neighboring suburb of a little share is growing rapidly as are most major around kept town but this is not the only challenge for the metropolitan. Flashback to 2018 due to a severe drought kept on dams had run dry residents queued to stock up on Drinking Water day 0 was through strict last minute water restrictions kept on its kept the catastrophe. For city councillors zamfir limburg the water crisis was a learning experience. They did learn very important lessons from the drought one of the key to this is the need for us to not be entirely dependent on surface water from brain damage because theres a risk on. Of. Rainfall patterns remaining very low and we have seen in the case lost by wind and so we do know that it is necessary and critical for the city to traverse the 5 food supply and this is one mechanism in which we will waste water through the average central it will be able to treat an additional 18000000 liters of water water the end product can be used for multiple purposes 3 from quality that will come out of the strong one we want to go but it will be to a single standard which can be used for industrial purpose can be used for for your guys and purposes future droughts in a fast growing population are major challenges for the water supply in kept on and surrounds especially in informal settlements poor Water Infrastructure puts the health of residents a triscuit so no one song see is the Community Leader of the language settlement contaminated water that is running through the streets is a big problem here. His neighbor i are complains about the smell but worse than that infections and the area caused by Fecal Bacteria in the water at the end of the day all this gray water you see it off should treat a storm water pipe storm water power shoot straight to believe are very vile since the dam where we get our Drinking Water you know so it means municipalities should do as much to clean the environment why and where a solution of the community not to get. Sick you know. Only a few kilometers down the hill scientists are trying to solve some of these issues. As the water have brought such as a test natural processes to treat contaminated run of from the informal settlement what the experts kevin the winter initiated the research site. Really not put enough resources into our wasteWater Treatment works into our water provision and into our drainage because the drainage is where the vectors for disease all started to move and so heres one example where we actually intercepting some of that water from what is effectively drainage somewhat through the downstream and cleaning that water up and using that water safely then to irrigate gardens winter explains the treatment process to representative of the city of kept town stones and couple in sources such as peach pipes act as bio filters and clean the water of bacteria nutrients and heavy metals these nature Better Solutions require space but present a useful addition to conventional Treatment Plants kept on has learned the hard way only by investing in its what infrastructure can the city be feed for the future of some play it is should yield to be finished by 2023. Cities across africa generate a huge amount of brush but only 2 thirds of that is collected and a lot of it doesnt get properly persist but ends up only good dams what it pollutes the air on the ground so whats disposal is a very serious environmental challenge probably one of the biggest that is why we often report on initiatives to talk of the problem for example in this weeks doing a bit which takes us to ivory coast. Theres no official Waste Management system in the ivory coast garbage collection is handled informally that means trash piles up can sit around for days. And that in turn leads to clogged drainage canals and groundwater pollution. A start up names wants to clean up the city have gone bust song an hours drive from the commercial capital. It runs an eco friendly Waste Collection service for households hotels and restaurants. Customers can use mobile payment ups to cover the pick up charge which is priced according to quantity. After the waste is collected its biked back to the companys main base and placed in a large container later it will be sorted and some of it will be sold on to scrap recyclers when you sign up you get a brief introduction to the system then to. The 30 or so households have received an information pamphlet that illustrates how to selectively sort waste at home it explains for example that the orange colored waste sacks are for Plastic Packaging the green ones are for again ik waste the gray colored bags certain designated for all nonrecyclable refuse that will go directly into the large containers and so on. We have 5 different colors and all. Ready. People can also drop off the backs of waste themselves customers are awarded points that can be redeemed for mobile data or snacks at a company kiosk. Sparkplug hopes that bonus system will inspire more people to take better care of their city. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it. Visit our website or send us a tweet. During your. We share your story. Now for another story but one copenhagen the capital of denmark has built. For you west Energy Power Plant which is good news but to talk. They are dead wrong on the real woods pierrots dong round the building there also hiking trails and a climbing wall who would have thought that a public utility structure could also become a place to hang out and have fun. This is 450 metres of fun. Koeppen hill is an artificial ski slope on the waterfront in denmarks capital copenhagen instead of snow it operates with plastic mats and grass for a flat country with no mountains this 85 metre high slope is pretty impressive. Just. Like a ski. So maybe this is the new way of skiing in 2002 used to. The ski slope was built on the waste to energy plant thats one of the cleanest in the world in the incinerator up to 400000. 00 tonnes of nonrecyclable waste can be burned each year the turbine and generator produce electricity in the excess energy from the steam is used to provide heating for families of homes the ash can be used for building roads. And thanks to an advanced system of filters that remove particles and pollutants the steam doesnt pose any health hazard. Architect david siler was part of the team that brought the vision to life. As it is right now cleans out almost all of the smoke that comes out of the stack. More than a 3rd of the of the building is filled with cleaning facilities the one thing they do still is to so right now theyre doing a Pilot Program where theyre trying to check Carbon Capture all the carbon that they produce and bind it into a material so that it can be bedded in the soil and in the bedrock the unusual design in the ski slope attract a lot of visitors skiers can rent the equipment they need to shop at the base of the slope a Conveyor Belt and ski lift take them up. To skiers and snowboarders can show off festivals on the slalom course or in the fun part of the forces the slope. And the surface feels like real snow. Grass coming through. A rubber plastic surface and that surface has a little bit of silicone oil and then you glide and its called an eva plast and we tested a lot of different materials and this was the one resemblance skiing on snow the most. In hagen is one of europes most environmentally friendly cities many here get around by bike not car. Now koeppen hill is improving the quality of life here even more the architects idea of combining a Waste Energy Plant and a recreational facility won them a sustained ability award. Project. Is like opening a door. To a world where you dont have to separate whats a sustainable life from whats a good life if those 2 things goes hand in hand and we called it a mystic sustainability so the idea that as if they know a future can actually be instead of it being that you can drive your favorite car you can have a long hot shower you can actually have a life thats more interesting its not a life thats less interesting does koeppen hill half what it takes to be a new copenhagen landmark quite possibly what it certainly does is make denmarks capital even greener. Its a definitely important players you know ecosystem we couldnt survive without them couldnt they put in a plan including 1st groups theyre also part of a comic less food chain for farmers various pieces of music our friends and helpers but the use of pesticides industrial farming appaloosa arent Climate Change threatens them in moral there is a project to inform us over to the idea of cooperated with. These cari and their flowers attract a lot of insects researcher Stephanie Christman is delighted to see them after all theyre essential for pollination here in morocco though many simply view insects as pests now a scheme designed to educate farmers about the need to protect them has been introduced simply planting strips of wild flowers as is often done in germany isnt the best solution here. Liz right now astrids its a nice approach maybe for rich countries but its not going to know im middle Income Countries so we decided to. Middle income country which is a well developed Agricultural Sector like morocco and we develop a model of forces then double and scalable pollinate the protection here in morocco and then spend it out. Country. Unlike other common insect protection plans the focus here is on enabling farmers to generate an income from everything they grow. Farming with alternative pollinators or if up for short is the name of the plan it works like this 3 quarters of the land is used to grow the main crops like eggplant for example cultivated around it are plants that attract more insects because of their colors shapes and when theyre in bloom the farmer can also sell them. As a control there are fields in which only the main crop grows that way the researchers can assess the effectiveness of the intervention. Stephanie christman works at an institute in the moroccan capital rabat it was here that she developed up she says the consequences of global insect disappearance could be dramatic such as loss of food crops soil erosion and even human migration. When my get into a world which is love peaceful anymore. In all areas because everybody will be affected and i think we have to start thinking on pollinator laws and on pollinated protection. Also in terms of keeping global peace one problem is the growing tendency toward monoculture morocco as the country modernize is the time or culture. Of Government Agencies cooperating with the fact. It says the insert protection model can easily be integrated into the countrys agricultural planning. To pull up i think fuck all the inclusion of wild pollinators in our Group Culture fits in perfectly with the ministries current strategy for all of these you actually administer it involves making our culture more intelligent in the face of Climate Change and. My cheek. Agriculture in the face of Climate Change the agency now offers training based on the fact model farmers learn that plants that rely on pollinators usually consume less water than wheat for example thats useful to know because in the future water will be even scarce or. Train the farmers know what to do in 2050 but we can educate them in a way that theyre able to respond to the reality they will have and sustaining pollinate as well that are not increase the class Climate Change resilience of their livelihood and the more knowledge they get on pollinate the protection the better. Farmers as insect protectors based on the current data the model seems to be working. Less and our income has increased and with it our lives have improved so should we benefit from it so we can sell more. Than previously we only sold wheat vegetables and pulses of not offered in the Terminal Market if you being on call them now i know that i can grow different products. Chokri wants to use the method on a much bigger field in the future and if other countries adopt the fact model the impact on insect populations could be significant. So it looks like nato will reward you if you give it what it needs sounds like a good deal lets look at another example change for the better the zanzibar in the indian ocean is in jeopardy as a result of Climate Change and the depletion of Natural Resources but the community of forests is helping people they are planting trees changing the way they farm keeping bees and the result. We visited the tiny island of off the coast of ireland. Nowadays its difficult to make your way through the dense woodland in cocoa turn 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist and baruch mr omar and his angio have brought it back to life in. The organization encourages local communities to plant trees install solar panels build fuel efficient cooking stoves and harvest rainwater. As a result the tums in the island has witnessed a turnaround. And i can about it up to give somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of Tree Planting and as i hear you know where they were was. Some years ago the people of cocoa to use slash and burn farming methods leading to massive deforestation. Most rivers and the groundwater brown try what was once 1st tidal soil turned to dust and people had to import food now the vegetation has returned to local communities have switched to migrate forestry and farm spices fruits and vegetables among the trees. Well its great that we can grow our own garlic because we no longer have to buy it from the shops. We also have cinnamon that weve started reaping the benefits we also grow vegetables that we in our selves and sell at the market. The organization has planted over 680000 fruit trees and forest trees in cocoa. To make sure that the reforestation a successful local communities regulate felling. Among the people benefiting beekeepers the trees provide bees with a well protected and shady twining place and a source of food when theyre flowering. 2 years ago. Just to be hives now he has 75. 00. Years i managed to get what i cant do anything without a forest. And when you hang behind its like weve done here we cant best quality honey its clean and the bees cant be attacked by other insects. And were going on a war. Is now on the road to recovery. But the eyelet of new job just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. Like kuta in the past has no clean Drinking Water and the land is degraded. This Tree Planting adventist designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. The young people if they can charge him or. When courage them and help them in planting as well then what then when the rains come we Work Together with the communities when we visit them and plant trees in their areas for the purpose of ongoing conservation work with. The organizations activities are funded by the European Union the aim is to enable communities to become selfsufficient by means of our great business. Has already achieved some of his goals but he has bigger ambitions her brother got some of us i cant turn back to want to use to be you know because the population is much larger now than what we could have is a Community Forest in every village and i would be proud of that i would report it for about one on the islands of inhabitants have managed to stave off disaster with. Help. Theyve proved it is possible to revive ravaged environments hopefully the other islets in the archipelago will now follow their lead. With no come to the end of this weeks episode of africa featuring an inspiring mix of small initiatives big project and dedicated people we dont also want to thank you for joining us today and of course well be willing waiting to have you company once again next week i am found out you know via phone compiler here in uganda and of course feel free to visit all social media platforms and shun those still then get. Just. Like a. Split. The before. And the. Current to change an entire country. And saddam no longer talked about startups until march turned. Entrepreneur suffering seems to the dems are making serenes out of the plan. Budgets like these could help the countrys economic. Slowdown t. V. Show for startups. Coming to. His secret tool would lose doyle a player and his art load a matter of perspective. The kinetic images of sergey cutting out the mysterious the mesmerizing a duality of his creations 1st hand. Your romance in 30 minutes on t w. Kid i am going. To close this place to hell just. An ignorant. Nice news and people think. I want their own story. Because a. Mosque. Starts january 27th on d. W. Every 2 seconds a person does forced to flee their home nearly 71000000 people have been forcibly displaced. The consequences have been disastrous for our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises around the world. Forgetting i didnt go to university to kill people that way i dont want to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone having in many and if i dont theyll kill me and. Keep these things for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad about the arena of vasquez me the most about this state to seem to arise is that someday we wont even see the really sad. But what will become of those who stay behind its a way my husband went to peru because of the crisis. If he hadnt gone there we would have died of hunger my grandson and i want to down a tough just wish this week to a dog. This is the double the news and these are our top stories. Protesters have clashed with police in the lebanese capital beirut demonstrators threw fireworks while Police Used Tear Gas and Water Cannons its the latest flare up in some 3 months of demonstrations against alleged government corruption. Prince harry and his wife megan are officially no longer working members of britains royal family according to a statement from buckingham palace