Husband to the street side newspapers to dry up many people are clearly staying at home and minimizing quote hello how is the situation in nigeria for you and of course the neighboring countries hi sandra and hive us a big hello for me in Lagos Nigeria indeed the pandemic is far from over here have to unfortunately say but because people are staying at home the use of cashless Digital Payment systems has risen by almost 15 percent in the last few months i have a feeling that a lot of things are going to change here in africa as a result of coverage 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green themes coming up this week. The environment needs volunteers and help more than ever nowadays will need to kenyans doing what they can to assist. With meat and on the usual environmental activists from senegal and we will introduce you to a species of ants of in ethiopia that have been hunted almost to extinction. Is a famous on the streets of the senegalese capital to call for his outlandish outfit a single handed come pain to raise awareness of the Plastic Waste problem children dont know whether they should laugh at him or be afraid when they see or meet the socalled plastic man mold you for going to virus restrictions in my view cramping his style a bit but the environmental activists work is paying off and hes determined to carry on the fight it is. Oh. To feel has had to change tack in east. Against Plastic Waste or the world in the grips of a pandemic hes only 2 right now is his smartphone but thats not likely to draw nearly as much attention. This is what he surely looks like more do it in a girls most ring on and a plastic complain for more than 15 years hes been going around schools neighborhoods in markets like this one in the car and stopping plastic bags for paper lines instead of work. Where some people are put off by his unusual appearance he usually gets his message across. With the good news out what a bad man he dont have this bugs you just want to show a little town a team to stop blasting and use this instead. He ties the plastic bags he gets to his suit to stop them from polluting the environment. Like many cities in the world has a plastic pollution problem i dont 10 percent of the cars worst is plastic best and most of it ends up in the streets model for oil doesnt hesitate to engage people in conversation is made you know goodness so shes already switched to paper cups. Maybe not explains that customers be for drinking from them she now stalked her shop with them even though theyre more expensive not all her customers want them she says but she thinks drinking from the paper cups is also safer. Through an association he heads more do wants to achieve a 0 was senegal and help people find alternatives such as making their own boats out of fabric something thats relatively easy to do here so. Ill go live under good. Everyone can do eat go to the fabric stand and buy some fabric ask a tailor to make you a bag when it gets a bit dirty you can wash and reuse it several times its much better than using a plastic bag. That took one second to make 20 seconds to use and will cause 400 years of pollution of america very minute these are still recoverable willesee or more deuce passion for Environmental Protection begun after he completed his military service returning to the car he thought the city looked like a huge damn sight we had to take action people thought he was crazy including his family but to be his wife lisa couldnt be prouder of water husband has achieved he will. Do my job in the beginning people will tell me he was crazy because the way he dressed up and its really hard to me and i didnt understand that but he was so passionate today im happy so happy now i understand and im happy to see everyone is talking about me. That my intent is 16 the countrys president awarded him the National Order of merit more due has also helped his Community Plant around 600 trees and according to the slogan one house one tree its been a Long Campaign but now many have come around to lose weight of thinking even the government is getting serious about enforcing the laws about Single Use Plastics for. Them with im not telling myself to stop entirely but have to carry on the fight and push the authorities theres still a lot to do a book with a city. Or it could take another 20 years before we pick up all the tapes of plastic in the ground and ill be behind the you encouraging them to be an example of this piece of commerce. Once they couldnt of a rest restrictions or leave to do will be able to continue his work in honest in the meantime perhaps the growing awareness of a gene will go some way towards winning the battle against the. So. Coffee has clearly got the message when it comes to waste hes an artist whose work seeks to highlight just how many sell through in a way hes already transformed thousands of artworks that have been shown in exhibitions in africa and for the field now heres this weeks doing. Its not easy to make a splash in the arts but if new does a coffee has done it his works are unique and arresting. And they give new purpose to discarded cellphones. Integrate old phones into my work to give them a 2nd life and to draw attention to the fact that our lives are so intertwined with technology where so digitalized that allows us to be connected should also consider the Environmental Impact of. New gets old phones from several sources but he cant use he passes on to recyclers after breaking them up he glues pieces on to canvases like mosaic tiles. In 2 years manu has used parts from around 24000 phones his works have made him a prominent contemporary artist. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your best. We share your story. The amount of garbage produced here. Hasnt really been reduced just by all the many ideas and initiatives that are voiding processing waste and its not likely to get better with this pandemic is it. Well the coronavirus is certainly having an impact although its not all bad in fact here in kenyas capital nairobi there is actually more west landing on the garbage dumps because with less traffic on the roads the west dispose of trucks getting through is the is that good or bad for Waste Management africa went to find out. In the middle of a nairobi residential area amidst a coronavirus lockdown this waste dump is just one of many in and around kenyas capital. Every day hundreds of tons of unsalted rubbish end up here some of it highly toxic. People like richard tin young to earn their living collecting and sorting the waste but they live in fear of the coronavirus. The law now what with what the people. There are 300 way speakers here. If they touch contaminated wasteful they wont wash their hands theyll do it in the evening at home by then their love already contracted the disease so more new york. The volume of trash hasnt lessened despite the coronavirus lockdown nairobis roads are less crowded right now so the municipal waste or 30 can deliver more ways to the dumps than before the crisis some 3000. 00 times a day. To collectors arent in any more danger than before according to Waste Management official here pretty much yeah no. Because of the lockdown they might be required to leave when all these. People that. We will to become governor very blogs and he be there. For the lockdown means there is less commercial way street chinglish dumps meaning less valuable waste that can be recycled. And a lot of supermarkets have gone over to handing out disposable masks and gloves to their customers some of that lands on the dumps or on the streets so the pandemic has increased the amount of medical waste. Increases the risk of infection standing up half an halts he runs one of kenyas few recycling operations. A lot of mouth must glass hand sanitizers and that waste ideally should be treated as more dangerous weeds and should ideally be incinerated so the government has been pushing a lot for that ways to be incinerated so we are expecting that there will be some legislative changes and basically stricter codes or rules for how that kind of waste is generally mannish cities like nairobi were already struggling with massive environmental problems corona crisis has only made matters worse low and middle income areas dont even have Waste Collection systems in place. What is really needed is a complete shift away from that model and that ideally which doesnt go to dump sites in the 1st place because to professional sorting saves from there goes to various recycling composting gas or other we use or recycling mechanisms and then ideally down a damn site only its left to be used for about 5 to 10 percent of the waste that cannot be recycled. The Authorities Say that the massive catch all dump sites are already on the way out. Of this one with Management Act of 25 b. N. We are. Talking about and with regulator and. Guides on how with management would be the only thing is now going of course and who are the people who wanted one now the mining though is nairobi resident richard can young who says its not enough to rely on personal responsibility and government regulation but the cities and. Remember problems need to be addressed more quickly than those that are. By the time the government identifies infected Waste Pickers as a source of danger it will be too late and since the neighborhood is growing on the way we should close this dump site permanently. You know until now nairobis authorities have left the citys waste because largely unregulated. Now the city has 2 challenges to solve the environmental problem and the coronavirus crisis. That. Many of you will never have seen. Hardly surprising as it is a very rare form of cookie is what the onion is called locally in its native ethiopia in english it is known as swans to be used in the 1990 s. The subspecies when nearly hunted to extinction but the local Roma Community banded together to ensure its survival in part by following age old traditions now the people is bouncing back. This wanes hartebeest spends just a brief moment resting in the shade before seeking the safety of the herd swings on to be a star found only in ethiopia the largest population lives in the singular century in the south of the country an estimated 850 hard to bits live here. Almost 40 rangers tends to the antelope safety and well being chief warden tested so and his team want to keep the animals from going extinct. Mamma you know i. Thought they needed. To be bothered by. Them from National Community even. Poachers used to be the biggest threat but these days its hyenas and jackals young antelope are especially at risk the rangers have their work cut out for them and the patrol the century around the clock and will shoot an attack in predator if need be their dedication a spate of this year about how for the young antelope survived quickly in the early 1990 s. There were an estimated 3500. 00 hard to visit. A year later they were about 70 poaching had become rampant even though the traditional governance system of the aroma people took takes respect for nature to put an end to poaching clan leaders agreed on strict penalties the rangers help win local people over to the system. If anyone. Caught poaching at the beast it will be punished. He killed human being. So if someone kills the heart of this one at the wrists he will be a punished 100. 00 s. But penalties alone are not enough to deter poaching. The antelope can only survive because the sanctuary benefits local people theyre permitted to harvest the dry grass that the antelope no longer need. It might not look like it but the hate is a valuable resource its used in town true for example local communities and the equivalent of about 180000. 00 yours a year from its sale. Of all new couldnt. Because a lot of people benefit from the resources. By cutting the grass and selling it. Now the resource is being protected. 2 unlike in the past when people used to build houses in the park on. Monday but thought bob. Over the years this century has lost about a quarter of its land to farm in an illegal settlement. Leaving only about 58 square kilometers that makes protecting the remaining hartebeest all the more important when a small herd left the protected area in search of water local people helped return the antelope to the sanctuary instead of hunting them for their meat this century is a boon to all animals and people who are. The rhythm of the going on working here and protecting the heart to beast has benefited me a lot. Like at a salary. You know ive been able to send my children to school with that salary. And i have a gradual drizzle and ive been able to send all of them to school here because. Theyre gunning their own brother you know merely for to species of mammal live here but a callous way is hard to be century has never drawn large numbers of tourists now the court of virus has put tourism on hold. So believes the crisis could open the door to a new form of travel. That reason number is not. A good number compared to the. Location of the sun. So i hope. The future of the. Sanctuary rights. The world lets start focusing on the. Nature based reasons. As they wait for the visitors return the rangers continue to protect the animals day and night. No in much in building a house without using summit to make the concrete but taking a substitute made overseas like cord roll materials instead sounds like a shoo in for an environmental magazine like africa is that it and it is a process which i young man from toggle is walking on in switzerland with a patna when it all concrete is market ready it wont only be cheap but it will also offer a long time climate protection benefits as well. 2 men with one vision. Lead landrover and t. Bo demo one to transform the Construction Industry with cement free concrete with support from businesses theyre constructing a display house its their 1st attempt to use the material in their impishness project its kind of an amazing feeling we didnt think much of this week its good to think. Because all the lot of. We are quite happy to see the. Londoner spent years researching cement free Building Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 80 percent of worldwide Carbon Emissions a more sustainable Building Material is long overdue landfill founded on construction sites where every year millions of tons of clay based excavation materials are disposed of but when theyre mixed with a naturally occurring mineral and water they result in a Construction Material thats more environmentally friendly than standard concrete walls and call it the cement free of concrete is up to 90 percent. C o 2 production computer conventional concrete and there are advantages that wed all. Like primary of all my to you but come from a place and like the crowd went insane. In some areas in the war but we use construction waste the landfill most of the time and. They have much as cheap to access therefore like and reduce the price of the material. This earth concrete can be processed more or less like standard concrete. But it currently around half the cost. Yet lead landreau was inspired by building practices in his home country he grew up in togo where clay or earth houses are a common sight in many countries in africa cement this. Kind of wall therefore you need to. Ventilation system and stuff like this. Theres a demand for the cement 3 concrete in industrialized nations but also in countries where affordability is a priority including in parts of africa where millions of new homes need to be built in the upcoming years. Its. Our dream and. So being able to implement the north. Africa being a huge achievement for us so all enable people to have. Affordable safe decent and. Sometimes sustainable accommodation. The display home is one step closer to fulfilling that dream the quick drying ones will undergo further tests and as the 2 scientists work to optimize their 1st concrete ready. So off concrete sounds like a good idea for the environment now lets take a look at another example for the change for the better to design in the indian ocean. As a result of Climate Change and the depletion of not sure resources. And good sondra like so many islands along this african coastline but the community of forests penned by and c. E. O. Is helping people i adapt by planting trees changing their farming methods and keeping the the results i impressive we went through the time i learned a quarter of the course of pemba island to see for ourselves. Nowadays its difficult to make your way through the dense woodland. 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist. And his n. G. O. S have brought it back to life. The organization encourages local communities to plant trees install solar panels build fuel efficient cooking style and harvest rainwater. As a result the tons in the island has witnessed a turnaround. And i can be about it all because somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of Tree Planting as i hear you know when they were. Some years ago the people of cocoa tar used slash and burn farming methods leading to massive deforestation. Most rivers and the groundwater ground dry what was once 1st time soil turned to dust and people had to import food. 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 up beekeepers the trees provide bees with a well protected and shady twining place and a source of food when theyre flowering. 2 years ago saloon cassim had just to be hives now he has 75. Because i managed to get what i cant do anything without a forest. And when you hang behind its like weve done here we get 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 eyelets of new job just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. Like cocoa to in the past has no clean Drinking Water and the land is degraded. This Tree Planting apprentice designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. When courage them and help them in planting as well 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. Weve come to the end of this weeks equal africa which featured an inspiring mix of small initiatives big projects and dedicated people i am sundered to no good please do keep safe and join us next week goodbye thanks for staying with us even during the kona the number of infections appears to be on the increase in many african countries and just remember when you protect yourself you also protect your environment a heartfelt goodbye from me as well in Lagos Nigeria do stay healthy see you again. Dont. Go. Thinking. Does fast food make great. Decisions. Healthy food make us last. Were beginning to realize the importance that what we leave south influencing whats going on in our. Brain. System. Total you. Know africa. Boost in the. In the pandemic. And online Payment System has gone from wonders motorcycle taxis back on the road after a months long drive. Now the customers pay for the ride without. 90 minutes. To know that 77 percent. Are younger than 60. Thats me and me. You know what. Im all voice is. The 77 percent. This is where. The 77 percent this weekend on d w. This is some story stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problem. Is crito no chemical. Wife thought it was crazy. And i boxed up. Orders. For tests dont stand. The prices. Is true and he has the finest day to go to top it off. Starts to lunch him self. Taught. This is the life from berlin from cathedral to mosque to museum now the iconic cairo sophia is a muslim house of worship once again turkeys president formally changes. Back into a mosque just moments after a Turkish Court gives its go. To National Critics called the decision a provocation. Also coming up thousands of employees tens of millions of us right now the biggest t. V. Network in the philippines is silenced. If you
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