Just read. The last. Sixty minutes to learn. What secrets lie behind these memos. Find out in an immersive experience and explore fascinating Cultural Heritage sites. D w World Heritage three sixty getting. Done. Hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of a good africa now a time when the faucet book may go to nigeria and im very happy to welcome you with new environmental top exam ideas from africa and europe but im not alone with
me is why charming colleague in south africa i love felicia he is My Name Is From Asia Enders very and i hope youll stay tuned for our show which is brought to you by. Channels t. V. And chris today will be taking you on a trip all over our beautiful continent as we throw some light on the environmental threats we face here. Well explain to you why senegal is suffering more and more as the coastal erosion. Are Making Art Out of way. And how different is making life difficult for fishermen and make the gloria. Lets kick things off in egypt many areas in the North African country a so isolated theyre completely off the power grid which is a problem for residents and the Tourism Industry so nepal could provide a solution but until now less than ten percent of that accuracy in egypt has been
provided by the sustainable resource however there are now plans in place to build the Worlds Largest solar plant in egypt though this still a long way to go in the meantime to fill the gap smaller supplies are setting up a raise and localised grids lets take a look. On is a remote Fishing Village on the red sea and its not on the national grid. Until recently the only electricity here came from Diesel Generators now a solar powered local grid to provide electricity of around the clock. Enabling fishermen to store their cash safely. You know. When we cant fish we used to take them either eleven kilometers south to have more
sixteen kilometers north to busan. It was quite a long drive and the fish would sometimes go bad and start to smell. Now that we have electricity around the clock we have a freezer people come to us to buy fish and we save on time and travel costs. One hundred kilometers to the north is marseilles. Its a popular Tourist Destination the hotels here rely mostly on Diesel Generators for electricity. But thats not the case at the Martha Schachter a large where people come from All Over The World to dive the owners here have invested in solar power but the system only provides electricity during the day when its dark the hotel still uses a diesel generator. Still the partial switch to solar hasnt just been environmentally beneficial its also been an advantage on an economic level. For many. For. The price of fossil fuels has risen a lot over the past eight years. Right now the cost of producing one kilowatt using the generator is the equivalent of twelve year old cents. On the other hand across from the solar plant is only a geoscience i mean one point six five as a result weve been able to recoup our outlays in less than five years before. The aim is to switch to one hundred Percent Clean Energy as soon as possible. The many great and solar station was built and is maintained by the carm Solar Company itself the electricity to the hotel. Jamaal opt out cause there is the on Site MaintenanceTechnician Karm Solar has a policy of training local people wherever it builds
a facility. And. I mean when i started i was a manual laborer. Digging holes laying cables carrying stuff around i knew nothing about solar power and throughout slowly i started learning things to climb solar i got trained by their engineers. He checks the solar panels every day its important to clean them regularly because a lot of sand blows around here for local Technicians Karm Solar is grids present opportunities for career progression. Where i know in charge of three solar grids and nasa. Karm solar mostly sets up facilities for big clients and companies but it also serves smaller ones like this Bedouin Settlement they recently received two solar panels from donors. Jamal is visiting to explain how the mini grid works. Carm solar also works with the government on large on grid power plants. Another sign that solar power has a Bright Future in egypt. Did you ever stop to think that a lot of what we throw away could be used in other ways to illustrate our french project started creating mosques out of waste then this was so successful that its members now travel around the world to share the idea and god has inspired school kids start doing their bit for the environment. Is one of the most polluted countries in the world the capital across generates about Three Thousand metric tons of waste in a single day often its burnt in the open polluting the air. Creating awareness on waste thats the aim of the International Initiative part of change twenty one together with two gunny and nonprofits they visit schools and show kids there how to personalize dust masks with plastic textiles waste. That raises their awareness of the Environmental Impact garbage cans and at the same time they learn that it can be recycled rather than discarded indiscriminately in the streets. You know like them. If you are doing your. Visit our website or send us a tweet. And do your bit we share your story. What a wonderful idea and
a Great Initiative lets hope it will inspire many more kids to change the attitudes towards waste shifting gears now to another environmental problem that threatens nearly the entire west coast of africa erosion the sea has already swallowed many villages on the atlantic and residents are helpless to stop it. More Fishing Village close senegalese cop car erosion isnt the only problem industrial activities are also poisoning the environment to belgian Documentary Makers went to find out the facts and uncovered a shocking situation. The. Science is the. Last. Name is. Due to. The Bunny Project is
a Web Documentary by law m. P. s nest that black and white film tells a story of a vanishing senegalese town near the capital dhaka the belgian filmmakers discovered a coastal town called bonnie which is under threat from the sea but also industrialization. In the west theres been a cement work very close to the choruses Nine Hundred Forty sales a new city center is being built to the north. A percent is built on land that could be found. In the west of the quarter theres a coal fired Power Station that went into operation in twenty eight scene. The government says the Power Station will be able to light up the whole of senegal but it was constructed on land that was originally promised to the fishing and farming communities ongoing coastal erosion is forcing families to abandon their crumbling
houses by the sea. But as a. Matter. That is. Equipped with a notebook and a camera gear and long explored the Densely Populated Urban Area where almost Seventy Thousand people live. They met families deprive both of a place to live and the means to make a living due to the construction project. Since then i hope this Land Wasnt Worth a lot up to now and that is precisely the danger with this new town center its being described as if it would have been a wasteland otherwise without any homes but maybe a few fields pretty insignificant all in all the lives of real. Just a hundred metres from the power plant local women dry fish traditional work that provides almost one thousand jobs but now a buffer zone is being created between the Power Station and local homes the place where people come to dry fish is being swallowed up as a result. Because if you would if we. Are really. Into. You if they are by south i mean so if it. The filmmakers say that barneys homeschools and fields are already covered with enough dust from the cement plant. The industrialization of senegal is a billion dollar project that has failed to take into account many environmental issues. With the met. Above the horse
building a Power Station alongside the port and the old cement works has added to c o two emissions and contributed to climate change. And it most probably will exacerbate coastal erosion to. Station is also threatened by erosion is situated very close to the kind of story. The pass. Through. Law school. Are now back in bonnie to show their film to the communities affected they hope their Web Documentary can raise awareness about the situation and inspire more people to resist Construction Projects that disregard the local population and their environment. Staying within the west african sub region here in nigeria the activities of man also affects the earth even farming as well a young man in lagos is wanting to help to solve that problem he wants to reduce
the effects of farming on the earth through the Hydroponic System of farming and uses less land space and little or no soil for the cultivation of vegetables however the most remarkable bit of news is that it brings the farmers and their produce closer to. These basel parsley and little sponsor special theyre being drowned with old use a noble sword vision over to system is called i dread politics to feed the plants the gardeners use an organic sterile media made from the part of the coconut tree at the clinic you transfer yours are not. Nutrients with chemical additives basically. Natural state and a special vegetable form of micro nutrients that the plants need. They got
no color we grew began growing herbs and vegetables in lagos two years ago Fresh Produce is often difficult to find in the nigerian megacity and organic products even harder to get hold of cutting a cut or starts with a need to. Want to empower the farmers and also with the consumer in mind in terms of providing fresh Quality Produce tall consumers which is real farm to table which is part of the whole agricultural revolution thats going on in the world by grain locally they could even on the cot the prices of the organic produce a visible in the city body still make profits conventionally grown vegetables so to other markets cost around thirty percent more than the organic ones here i buy kill speed knees in the eightys most of them i imported suv get very expensive but the
seas look and the groom a dandy so the price in us is very reasonable when you think about what youre getting nothing can beat fresh fruit you know straight from from farm to mouth the whole concept nothing if its not too expensive. Its also environmentally friendly other company only delivers within the city it keeps its Carbon Footprint low the firm is also helping other farmers to follow its example. We. A branch of the called and its a part of the continent that literally you know you would offer people a pretty fun for them and then trust fights. So far theyve helped three farmers to launch their own businesses. We are also planning to expand and