Sorry your new host i am a reporter and news anchor with katie and news in my role be here in kenya i was a very passionate about Environmental Conservation and thus im very happy to be on board the eco at africa team joining me from my days my colleague and. I know theyre now time in Lagos Nigeria and im happy to see you today we will bring you some interesting stories and all of a new up coming up on this edition of the show. Saving great white sharks in south africa. A look at insect murder a trend in the making. And comes a very sinister working to revive them all and in northern germany we begin todays program with a report of truly amazing creases white sox scientists thought that thousands off the lads a predator in the watches off like a. Of south africa but new Research Suggests the number is actually only between three hundred fifty and five hundred and thats punish and all the fishing have contributed to the decline and otherwise ation called save our seas is doing what its come to save the remaining shocks. The lines at the southernmost point of africa. Abundant with in the rain and bird life its home to thousands of cape first seals. These Marine Mammals are a favorite with great white sharks. The predators troll these waters in large numbers on the lookout for that next meal. Shock alley is also famous as one of the worlds top commercial cage diving destinations the tourism brings in revenue and also help support Scientific Research of the sharks. In. A white shark cage diving industry here hons by its been operating for a number of years many of these boats are collecting daily Observational Data now to better protect an animal we first have to know something about it so we can hope to push legislations at higher levels if we dont have that knowledge to to first investigate. Shocks of all species are in need of protection almost one hundred million a killed each year too many for the populations to recover and some sharks are targeted simply because theyre perceived as dangerous. But thats an unjustified prejudice. Sharks rarely view humans as prey. Theyre only around five shark attacks a year in south africa. Cage diving operators use bait to attract the sharks to the cages. Its a once in a lifetime thrill for the tourists. Its their size theres their the mystique that surrounds them. You know i dont live near an ocean and so. The only experience i have which. Its just what i see on t. V. And i believe is and seeing a first hand is ok i dont think you can compare to anything else yeah its pretty amazing. Recent studies indicate that maybe only a few thousand of the iconic great white sharks left in the world. Back on land kelly baker analyzes the latest data with her colleague. Like a fingerprint each shark has a uniquely shaped back fin the scientists are interested in the animals migratory behavior. Of five hundred species and they are alternately incredible that they just continue and particularly for me the great white shark is kind of the ultimate iconic charismatic or inspiring species but yet we still have no idea where it breeds and what is partly a lot of the metric focused. Understanding where and when the sharks reproduce is vital for that conservation great whites are especially slow to produce offspring as females need around thirty years to reach sexual maturity and can only mate ten or fifteen times in their lifetime which is very infrequent for fish species. Long term conservation success will require a change in the perception of the animals. And nearby cape town the save our Seas Foundation invests in shark education. The aim is to introduce schoolchildren to the Marine Environment from an early age. Was they want to know that. Sharks are dangerous. To people. Trying to change their minds or trying to teach them to know that sharks are not dangerous as they think sharks are useful to as people because they can always sions in balance taking the ocean. The message of save our seas is clear. Shocks like humans rely on healthy oceans to survive so we need to learn to live with the sea and its inhabitants not against them. In shock alley marine biologist kelly bank is back on the tourist boat. Here shocks are already celebrated stands. Watching more than. They have looked at for so many years we still know so little about how to help her what i would like to do you know what i hope that we can do is to further our knowledge on this animal. Into and then to perhaps a better idea of exactly how vulnerable this space is and what we can do to better protect it theres plenty of Research Still to be done besides the charismatic great white one hundred other shock species can be found in the waters of south africa. From south africa we had to many where theyre hardly any more or less left these master will have a very special more or less comes to vast amounts of water so they play an Important Role in the absence of. That all over the world more lines are under threat we take a look at Nature Conservation projects in germany and that restoring devastated more supported by local volunteers. These conservationists want to save the more land near give horn in northern germany their most important work right now is uprooting young trees from areas that are too dry andre data of the nature and Biodiversity Conservation union nabu has been working here for many years and leads the restoration project. Were removing trees to keep them all and because its so dry the trees will otherwise keep growing and create a forest removing trees also reduces evaporation because water isnt being drawn out of the ground. Up rooting the trees also helps protect the climate the more land stores considerably more carbon than forests too many trees would dry out the more and slowly destroy it. In this dish pretty beauty that morelands our important biodiversity there are many rare plants and animals that only thrive on them was and cant be found elsewhere in the landscape to protect them the most must be maintained and its important for the climate because more store Carbon Dioxide which removes it from the atmosphere. Ninety eight percent of the more lands in germany have already been destroyed through peat harvesting logging agriculture. Teaches at the university of Sustainable Development and walda near berlin shes very familiar with the global threat to more lands. On the other continents of the world also trying out and being destroyed but not at the level its happening in europe. And africa for example about twenty percent of my land in kenya and nigeria has been protect our cultural use making it a source of Greenhouse Gases. In indonesia and Southeast Asia theres a rapid deterioration being converted into plantations. Has been harvested here for two hundred years today its mainly used as potting soil thats caused that pete on the morris to decline from a depth of six metres to just half a metre. Andriy data and doris planter of nabu are hoping to restore more lands currently being used for industrial purposes. They. Need in order for the peat to develop and kate moss is the most important plant when it comes to replenishing the moreland one that if you as peaches removed barren areas being created it could be replanted so were trying to grow as much peat moss as possible so that we can plant it on those narrow the areas. That will help the more lands to recover. To grow peat moss on a large scale water needs to be returned to the more land first. To soak the area we release the water theres a board here and when we remove it the water flows through and fills the area. As the more land revives it slowly recovers its former biodiversity many insect species can only survive on more land. Peat moss also begins to grow again and. Its great that we were able to take land where all the pete was removed and restore it to a flourishing moreland when you look down and you can see that the paint moss is growing again and it shows all our work was worth it. The pete soil here will accumulate at the rate of about one millimeter per year so its a job that requires a lot of patience. Itll take about six thousand years for the more land there get horn to fully recover. Climate change is having a huge impact on the environment one issue of concern is that its occasion in mali the Green Initiative has come up with a method that would stop erosion and restore the natural vegetation all of which can improve the quality of land used for agriculture and thats how theyre doing their bit for the environmentalists. Turning the desert green. A large sand dune is in danger in the village of conduit molly. Sand is invading fields and smothering farmers crops. The twenty five kilometer long dune threatens seven other villages. But local farmers together with an ngo have found a way to contain the sand and turn the desert green. Theyre building straw barriers to stop the Shifting Sands their growing bushes to stabilise the dunes with their roots and planting trees at that to to the sandy soil like the desert today which provides fruit and wood. Making the dune safe is an ongoing project but the results are already being felt. Like. If youre also doing your tennis. Website. Tweet. Doing. We share your story. Today we made. A direct. Hit we talk about how and i just fish stocks have been affected by Climate Change an effects of pollution. The effects of mans activities on this fisheries and population. So lets go. Nice to meet your friend here and you for sticking with us new york on the ocean and the effects of Climate Change has it been referred to the ocean. Is a privileged everything the. Is the fact and the ocean unfortunately in most of human activities is impacting the ocean. Lets narrow it down to our own waters in nigeria what has the effect been like because ocean is like a sink absorbs all the things that we do all the activities that i dont go online to explain. To the runoff and all the rest and all this impacts the ocean and the activities that have. Changed courses globally is. Sea level rights as a result of the melting of ice into not you can imagine how far the not poor east was here in which you were definitely are nigeria we have low lying coastal land so the impact will actually be more we noticed that we actually did a story one time when he called africa where we talked about. Some of the communities that have lost land indeed some communities have actually been lost to rising water levels but lets look at the impact of pollution i mean Waste Management we notice that theres a lot of waste in the ocean that part of human activity or other thats part of human activity how does affect the fish stock when all this with into the the ocean its mixed with the water the fish die its just its an it enters into the system now gets to. Because we go out there and try to deceive and come back and eat it so we need to take a. Oh so if you really want to have you hold the line whats the way out what are the solutions what do we do. Theres a lot you can do i seem to be doing the fourth pin thats we need to know is that you need to pick your fight if you can start from. A person. If you can go. Thank you very much youre welcome and now before you go let me show you some of the things i was mentioning ok from the walk from. Now what youre about to see in our next report looks delicious but its not your standard burgo made a big start up in germany is producing in fact but i guess yeah you heard right sharon would you be willing to try one. Maybe its probably packed with. The better for the environment than their reason was and now one reason being that breeding produces a tremendous amount of Greenhouse Gases who knows maybe all you view was will soon be enjoying. Yourself. At first glance it looks like a normal hamburger but its not just any old burger because half of the meat patty consists of ground up insect larvae student there are a book on tried out the box burger thats right thats nice flavor and i would definitely think i would recommend it to my friends. Made ingredient in various boxed burger is ground glass or meal worms the larvae of the darkling beetle the production of the insect burgers begins here in the dutch town a fair amount of. The manufacturers have been breeding insects here for about forty years mainly as animal feed and for the cause medics industry. But recently theyve been producing more and more larvae for human consumption nickel rued is plant manager of prodi farm he performs regular checks on the quality of his worms. Around two billion people around the world eat insects daily but its still a big taboo in europe. I think that within five years its quite normal to eat in six bad will be in size in a gradient in the world of football theres nothing. So what in five years i think we all were its a couple of times a year and six the worms are a sustainable source of energy containing fifty percent protein they only need a fraction of the space water and feed that breeding higher orders of animals requires and their c o two emissions are minimal the larvae live for three months in these boxes where they consume grain when theyre large enough to be harvested theyre flash frozen and shipped to customers. Cramer and bearish ursule are the founders of bucks burger they started their company Bug Foundation and twenty fourteen with ten thousand euros in startup capital now the young entrepreneurs employ a team of four people. The Founders First encountered edible insects during a world trip seven years ago thats how they got the idea to start their business. I think when we first told Friends Family and acquaintances about our idea most of them said we were crazy that theres no way it would work in the meantime everybody thinks what were doing is cool and the next thing they say is hey when can we finally try it out and. They worked on the development of their burger patties for more than a year the ground feel worms are mixed with peas with water and a secret spice mixture. The founders hope their burger will lead to less meat being eaten that will be good for the environment because less grain will be used for cattle feed and the insects are also climate friendly. At the same time were hoping will become a model for other countries for instance in developing countries where they used to eat insects but stopped doing so in order to adopt the western lifestyle and eat beef burgers following the mcdonalds lifestyle. In germany its still illegal to sell Food Products containing insects but a few restaurants in belgium and the netherlands already have bugs burgers on their menus the exotic hamburgers cost between twelve and seventeen euros. Starting next year selling insect Food Products will be legalized in germany too. Then the Bug Foundation founders will be worming their way into the fast food business. For a long time rhondas mountain gorilla population was in severe decline the species had endured the years of war. Habitat destruction and the seas triggering fears that its could become extant by the end of the Twentieth Century but that was then now in recent years the story has taken a more positive time in twenty fifteen conservationists in the vote count as National Parks said there are more than six hundred mountain gorillas living there thats three hundred fifty more than in the nineteen eighties a few years ago the pack lost a crystal in ceremony not only to welcome baby gorillas but to create a connection between the human and the adult population. Early morning in Volcanoes National park in rwanda. Emanuel and shockey jake is out once again with a small group of adventurers. And there theyre looking for mountain gorillas a man a well issues final instructions if they dont want us to run them theyre gonna push the sound. Thats the warning sound wanted their point does sound with keep insisting by saying. That just for calling them down. The encounter comes at a premium. Each visitor pay seven hundred fifty dollars for an hour with the magnificent apes. But emanuel says he rarely gets any complaints afterwards. Or wonders mountain gorillas are among the worlds most endangered species. Barely one thousand of them remain. And half of them live here in the region straddling rwanda uganda and the democratic republic of congo. They live in family groups. This clan has eighteen members and impressive size. One reason for that is that theyre now being tended to by veterinary surgeons. For the simple diseases. But for this disease that in their head the intervene wanted the grass outside of forest which did them and afford it consequently an increasing number of the wonders of the religious are surviving. For a cosy is the youngest in the family his name means thank you thank you for my survival something that isnt a given. Unfortunately the gorillas share their habitat with the various rebel. That infest the area primarily in the congo region time and again the apes get caught in the crossfire between rival militias or they fall victim to poachers in some areas their meat is considered a delicacy many People Living around the National Park boost their income by selling bushmeat. But thats at least been stopped in rwanda nowadays local residents here earn more by keeping gorillas alive. You know projects. Projects and it. Is among the top six. Much income in this country and i would put much effort into. It will get much money because i had the end of a five percent among the dead money what it did. Come back at the community. Gorilla conservationists now stage an annual celebration in rwanda even the countrys president comes to the grand event its a symbolic act all the newly born gorillas are given their names. As a gorilla as cant attend the party themselves after all it is symbolic. But it also signals that the gorillas are an important task for the entire country so that one day little rascals like rico say can grow up to be big and strong. Wow lets hope theres a lot more projects like this and that and this this and of africa with topics on major climate and biodiversity thats forcing join us again next week by by. And thanks. To find out more about pan african and european and viral mental magazine check out our website social Media Channels you will see here on the screen thanks for watching and bye bye see you next week. Easy to the big guy. By train from new only to. The thirty one. Legend great presenter taking twelve stadiums. On a trip through american history. Training adventure. To. Its Mission Mission d. W. Has come back around the clock marking its first three. Blocks to the commemoration ceremony in getting back. To me documentaries magazines and talk shows focusing on losers and the Ground Breaking events he helped set in motion. 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