And thank you for inviting me in the next half of there about we will be presenting our latest edition of africa brought to you by dutch channels t. V. And k. T. S. And here is what will be coming up on the show today. A sperm bank vault coles yes indeed using savva technology thats what scientists in durban have set up to protect biodiversity on the reef. And a new use for waste both of our german microbiologist makes quote guess what from milk. And we need people out on twenty k. Technology we can one of the few hybrid car owners in lagos nigeria. Scientists say that coal reserves in south africa seem to be more resilient to Climate Change than weve seen other regions but why assume of mine biologists in durban is researching the complex dynamics of coral production and protection to do so they have set up a whole sperm bank using Cyber Technology beyond to me the purpose of their project protect the bio diversity of the re lets take a look. This is how go to reproduce and spread for hundreds of millions of years theyve been building pushing reefs and ensuring their own survival. Marine biologists are collecting these six else called. To study their genetic potential most living room typical waters. In this part of the ocean Natural Selection has lived only species that can cope with the rough when the found in the seas around south africa so thats a lot of our research is just trying to figure out. What is the genetic basis of all existence of susceptibility to our race all connected on a genetic level how how. What sort of movement of blogging and terror of getting and. How does that inform our. Plans to protect. Our reefs out of a virus because systems that produce an important hobby types and breeding ground for fish and other marine species in the last few years Global Warming has ghost good reefs to bleach and die around the wild. Animals that live in symbiosis with an alligator. When Ocean Temperatures get too warm and this relationship breaks down. The paled turning the corner white and effectively studied like here in the sea shells reefs in south africa have mostly been spared at least so far dr pierce and his colleagues believe thats down to our genetic disposition that makes them less vulnerable to change in the environment. Environment is very turbulent and therefore the water mixing is very good so you dont get a layer of water. Sitting at the surface and i think the Shallow Water corals added to this the are called steam to be the deeper the tropical least grow to the surface so this is all assists in the corals to cope better with with Global WarmingClimate Change and coral bleaching just as important as the special environmental conditions in south africa district protection of the country is not eastern coastline the hope is that this area might provide a breeding lift for course but can survive in woman people regions. Here in d. C. Monday lisa whitman park james wood is in charge of marine protection. One of the thinking mans father scientific basics and that is possibly. Our corals in south africa was wrong when he said could actually benefit our Global Warming just as the. Water temperatures rise in here to. Try to area for the coral states stand for the south. But what temperatures arent the only factor affecting reefs another major problem in ocean spall over the world is marine pollution in dublin one man is thinking ahead. To give out with colleagues from around the world dr peter is working on kyle preserving coral game its. For him an insurance policy for biodiversity if worst comes to wast. With karls under such immediate threat. We need to move on ways to preserve. The diverse have. The situation is inside and many here is that so. We have to look at. Solutions like. Its a race against time experts say around half of the planets coral reefs died by twenty fifty taking with them much of the diversity and beauty in the wild beneath the waves. And now lets move from the waters of the indian ocean to the german forest these ecosystems are called green longs of our planet just how much of forests will be left in the future will depend to a large extent on our children you hit the nail on the head its worth teaching them to appreciate its value in gemini a group of volunteers have joined forces and founded all the aimed at luring kids away from that smartphones and into the woods to explore all play and get as they like sounds like fun. A message to young conservationists play in the forest and preserve it. Every year seventy thousand square kilometers of forest are lost well one. More children never get a chance to play in the woods. A german group called letter thats wants to change that. The initiative organizes nature trips for kids. They learn to make fine without a liter. And how to identify plants and follow animal spores this footprint was left by wild. Children should take the time to play fool around and get dirty. Children get to know and have fun in the forest. They might appreciate it and protected later. You like then. If youre also doing your thing tell us about. Visiting our website or sentence a tweet. And doing you know. One of the major probes in zimbabwe is raise but one of those can be especially valuable especially on the extreme weather conditions that is something that lots of african farmers are experiencing some community is in zimbabwe are now starting to switch to local but to use their often hard up can make do with less strain and can withstand pests and Agricultural Research institute wants to set up a seed bank for this crops. Northern zimbabwes rivers have dried up due to a severe drought in the region. They are desperate villagers have dug holes among the dried out metal beds to collect water to keep their gardens moist very two percent of the nations farmers grow maize hard hit by the drawing spell in this region much of the crop has already begun to wilt. Helton in boise is an agronomist with commie tech and in geo that seeks to improve the livelihoods of Rural Communities in the country he is convinced that maize monocultures can provide food and seed security with this Climate Change now maize always feel is maybe five years that plant maize where they grow. Maybe they just get to do cindy yield once out of the bases so lazies made a first step to flee to drought to stress hes caused a clinic shes. Come utech has helped establish the Community Seed bank to promote the more drought and stress tolerant varieties of small grains like sorghum or chickpeas. Dorothy to work on the iowa is coming to take a delivery of small grain which is expected to pay back in seed interest after harvest this in turn will boost the banks seed stock the seeds of stored under cool and dry conditions and they can last for up to two years in the facility. Like you know the good thing about to see bank is that its monitored by different agricultural specialists in addition the seed bank is well secured its different from keeping your seed within the confines of your household in a household set up your seed might be destroyed by fire or even sefton which. So far there are only a few places like harares biggest open market where small Grain Farmers can sell their products gradually awareness and attitudes are changing. Sure not much to get compared with previous years things have changed demand is now very high among customers. As a result the price of a twenty kilogram unit of small grains is forty percent higher than that for maize. So that has prompted commuter to also create a local company where farmers can now supply their produce and in turn get paid the seed bank in northern. District is already working with over forty villagers so for now we need to do. Four miles away not to actually. Pick up off the farmers so that they produce seed. When they are on there was. Very expensive. For farmers in zimbabwes drought stricken rule areas small grain seed banks are welcome opportunity to move away from the high risks of maize farming they provide good security and cut costs for the farmers and their families. Now lets talk about cars i mean in an ecological sense does anyone. Take care of what those exhaust fumes are doing to our climate. Of course theres a Small Community of hybrid car owners here in the city of lagos a hybrid vehicle has both an internal Combustion Engine and he let it moto famous watch even greater fuel economy unless you are to emissions and unconventional cars those people are not only fascinated by the Technical Innovations but also want to contribute to protecting the Environment League has almost two million conventional car you what you call hero this week its training against the top. One who lives in lagos is familiar with this six. So loud gridlock of rush hour in nigerias commercial capital. Every day viz be discharged out suggests its up to you to f. And escalate Global Warming. Or theres a solution to this problem and its name was silent. For a start button of a hybrid car. Like the one that belongs to a thirty five year old entrepreneur. Who called runs in both but still an electric energy its one of just a handful in nigeria. Basically from the battery or the engine and you have the convents i had to call vox the currents to d. C. So his thought inside a battery so in his most my batteries some well charged. To hold. Alongside the passengers. So i said cassidy batteries discharging a yellow arrow. Showing that energy is going outside out on the battery park. So the engine can also buy parts of the wheel. Supplying the parts that will. Do so because the latest one patch or a d. C. Which b. G. Species the World Bank Says nigerias quality is poor and a danger to Public Health most of those fields you look you see coming out of this also things Carbon Monoxide now one divorce his pockets full of all these things you know he shows extra ten days work in the hopes of joining the sister. Of a double is so could be. Hes even become a mechanic of sorts. I started basically by with my love for invites us and. Renewable energy basically which was where i moved on to a hybrid vehicle use then maintain us over twelve million hybrid vehicles have been sold worldwide but only a few of those have made their way to make us this Small Community has created a dedicated what subgroup on the topic is one of its administrators supports hybrid use us mission way is not full is an awful forty feet tall forestall encourage us else give us as an Exchange Information visit please we have a right to six members. Apart from fixing his own car he also helps out without us like this twenty ten model. Its proven to be difficult to fix and so a diploma is me to the head of the whats approved to get some more guys. A computer engineer has a surprise in store he just bought a one to sixteen hybrid that hes happy to show off their vehicle bombs and a more Efficient Energy star device to leave them on battery. Boards his hybrid second hand it cost two point five million around seven thousand dollars now thats about half a million four hundred dollars more than similar pecial pollard models. Although there is still more expensive he hopes that someday soon all the cars and his just his road will be high grades or even fully electric and now as promised a new development for an old proto you know its not just a healthy food its becoming a resource for the textile industry thats because a protein in milk can be turned into organic fiber surprise its a great way to use the waste put up some no production for one reason or the other i no longer fit for human consumption jungleland produces to me and tons of waste milk i know only that could be turned into cloth see for yourself. Cows give us milk no one ever expected them to influence the fashion world however but now the fashion world needs what they provide. Here you can see milk hanging on a rock milk protein to be exact in dark blue black and gray the new material is soft almost like silk clothes made from milk protein produced and designed by scott whos also a microbiologist mendeleev you can smell that its made from milk its funny but the first thing people do is sniff it. And theres no way to know that its made out of milk. Its very silky our fiber is made out of protein just like wool or silk and because the surface is so smooth it feels like silk. Do moscow produces textile fibers made of waste milk which is not fit for human consumption its an idea that could radically change the textile industry it all began in a kitchen. The muska a rookie microbiologist bought a supermarket blender a big killing thermometer and lots and lots of protein powder pro goal was to create a fiber that she could use to make clothes. Or start with the milk let it get sour and then it separates. The white flakes down here are the milk protein and if you scoop it out youll have kurds and that dries into a protein powder and thats our raw material. No damascus is mass producing milk protein fibers the raw material is milk powder thats mixed with water and natural ingredients. Thats made into a kind of dough which is pressed through nozzles into a thread fitter than a human hair. Fibers made of no protein have many advantages they are hypoallergenic and have no traces of chemicals. They also turn waste milk into a resource and are easy to compost. And that are made. Fiber breathes regulates temperature is antibacterial and nonflammable that makes it not only interesting for the textiles sector its also interesting in technical terms for example you can make a foam out of it you can spray and you can turn it into foil or nanomaterials it has unbelievable potential that were just starting to discover. The breakthrough came in the first in world when some hollywood stars like the clothes made of milk do muska had the idea to send those stars clothing designed especially for them a smart move. If the idea catches on these mill kills will be getting other assignments in the future like producing bra materials professional labels. Hey sharon will you be the next to present a dress made out of milk potent fibers on our show it will be an awesome idea. Of course and see as we always say good ideas walk everywhere and that suddenly holds for our next story is about ugandan joint project they have developed a method to turn maize spindles into briquettes a great way to make use of biomass waste they want to see people in uganda use less firewood and more of this natural briquettes for cooking and heating eco reporter went out to investigate. Indulging universe scene century uganda provides mills to one thousand eight hundred students every day. And uses huge amounts of cooking wood in the process the university is looking to change that with the help of the german engineer outbred smit is working with the Energy Research center to replace wood with most a synagogue we cant make from corn waste. The first new stuff is already in operation. It was a former fire wood stove and we adopted it too to break it already planning to adopt another stove for prek. Through prek. And one by one will be replaced i think the university hates to radically reduce its root consumption uganda has a huge problem with the first ration every yeah ninety thousand hacked is a forest are lost in the country much of the wood is used to cook food most of the institutions local boards schools are board prisons talk about the universities the use of and a lot of for cooking and many of the fuel that is being used for cooking is the firewood where the trees are new no this is mont south in the mall so we started thinking can you be able to play brick its on an institutional level the universe we get from it seriously its because its from like you farmers who grow corn also known as mayes. We take their meds only the cops are just throwing the goodie or we just leave it to their throat slit. Brains when these people came yeah tuesday giving us some money and the deal they could pay their corpse. Which. Albert smith has translated the pharmacy collect the cobs rather than throwing them away. The three large sacks each farmer received a privilege of one u. S. Dollar its a welcome source of extra income for the sloth go farmers to often struggle financially the cubs are dried at a small factory then place in a compromise us for two days it turns them into charcoal their then mix with water and molded into briquettes these are left to draw in the sun for another five days then theyre ready for use the factory produces a ton of precancer each week thats new and near enough we cannot produce much more and we calculated to replace all the firewood of our universe of kitchen and the schools we provide with briquettes we need around four tonnes perique so we have to build another pico carbonized. Since starting to produce b. Cats the university has massively cut back on if i would use thats not only helping to preserve the forests its also saving reinstitution money and the idea is catching on a nearby school has now introducing new technology Albert Smiths is hoping the project will set a precedence nationwide and help stop the rapid disappearance of you can do. Wow cooking for one thousand five hundred students with eco friendly mayors briquettes that have to protect our forests for many more good ideas out there but youll have to wait until next week before we tell you about some more of them from our goodbye from a ceremony in nairobi kenya. By xan yes thats all for today but before we end the show were like to ask you to send us your stories in a pail will be planning a special about extreme weather as a result of Climate Change extreme weather is on the rise megastore heavy rainfall flooding cold snaps heat waves and drought all impacting ever more on us around the world who would like to know how these issues have affected you please send an email to the email address showing on the screen including text Photos Videos or even audio you can also post on tweet or facebook or instagram using the hash tag extreme weather stories please join us again next week for more eco africa and. Goodbye from lagos. The be. The be the be. The be. The be the but. The but. The. The the. The but the because. The be. The be. The be. With some junk and instructions from a book. Of fourteen william come from by. 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