Mean do we have quite a good number of resources you would be surprised my name is now its come to you from lagos joined by my colleague sharon from Nairobi Kenya hi sarah in one minute coming to you from Nairobi Kenya and were looking forward to showing more green ideas this week heres what we have prepared in this edition of eco us africa will be visiting a tree lacerate in zimbabwe thats aiming to target kids into conservationists going to south africa to find out why im sometimes a big reserves and visiting us from his company during the week after the break for us. Deforestation is taking place at an alarming rate in many parts of the world among the wost his country is in africa at my geria the democratic republic of congo and tanzania and yet forests play every title role in the battle against Climate Change the lives of more. One point six billion people wild ride the pair of them this topsoil or ocean and maintain supplies of clean Drinking Water a true vaziri in zimbabwe is getting kids involved in replanting and opening their eyes to just how Important Trees are for their future. Here in zimbabwes not eastern macone district beetle grace timing the countryside around here the green bay planting trees. With support from an organisation called friends of the environment has managed to grow over eight thousand plants. And predictable weather patterns caused became a change freight in his effort so peter covers the soil around the smoked trees with the tray grass. And. The patterns are constantly changing because of the deforestation here people need to start planting trees rather than cutting them down. During weekends in School Holidays his fifteen year old son simba to the necessary and experience which has in reached his love for the environment. He hopes to become an agronomist twenty three tree farm in uni she t. V. Is not only the first issue and it has also enabled the young man to realise his dreams as the family can raise money by selling some of the citrus trees to other farmers and private individuals. My favorite subject at school is an agriculture because i can relate to it best based on my practical experiences here at home in the tree nursery to the who and also what i learned at school i can apply at home making the maintenance of the plants more effective if you do anything that needed to. Freeze up a fatal role in the environment they observe poorly timed gases to hold this oil in place preventing swim erosion and they provide food in the form of fruits. Friends of thing viral mean to is established in twenty ten injury or walks with different communities around zimbabwe in the macone district its hard to villages to grow by six Million Trees. Each year we are. Destroying three hundred thirty thousand activists of. Five hundred sixty Million Trees each year and as a result of that we were then going to have wiped out everything. In zimbabwe by. Fifty two. A vis field day organized by friends of the environment tree farmers in their region make to share their experiences in challenges. But disciplines also take time to showcase some of their fruit trees and indigenous plants those with the best presentations received gardening equipment like will barrows shovels in what suits. Their ground. Its a proud moment for everyone who received an i want. A message to my im so happy today. Gives me a feeling of great satisfaction and joy. With over seventy percent of their rural population dependent on maize and grains for food not all are convinced of the benefits of growing trees thats why advocates encourage people to add trees to the air learned in stages rather than only a twenty foot jam that comes near. You know very many hundreds of. Voyaging planted three foot did planted trees so that would be huge there where people planting trees they did time which is spears which is the largest although forty percent of zimbabwes forested tree last remains a problem now stories indeed outreach will help the country regain some of its lush greenery the destruction of tropical forests is not just a problem in africa but also in other parts of the world as thats up in europe has now developed sustainable alternatives to tropical wood made out of locally sourced wood the Swiss Company aims to counteract the depletion off the rain forests and encourage the mess ticks forestry and with think theyre doing great work they are doing their bit for the environment. Would be tropical would made in switzerland. Ebony is one of the worlds most valuable woods. Its hard and durable. So its perfect for fingerboards. Ebony is found in tropical forests in places like cameroon and nigeria. Due to overexploitation ebony is now endangered. A swiss startup has developed an alternative to have any. Swiss Wood Solutions modifies locally grown wood such as maple ash and beech. Bust it soaked in a special solution dried and then put into a hot press in order to produce the desired density color or tonal quality. Swiss ebony is a sustainable alternative to its natural counterpart it could also be used to make billy accuse and furniture. You like them. If you also didnt you tell us about. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Cash to be your worst. Now no its out lets talk about cuts i mean you know ecological sense everyone in your country concerned about their kind of the stuff of bad doing to all climates. Well a very is a Small Community of hybrid car owners here in lagos now hybrid vehicles have both an internal Combustion Engine and an electric motor so they tend to use less fuel and have lower c o two emissions than the normal cause lagos has around two million conventional vehicles running every day but one man is doing his best to get more people so go hybrid lets go see what hes doing. One who lives in lagos is familiar with this six. So loud gridlock of rush hour in nigerias commercial capital. Every day these vehicles discharge trucks and gases that lead to any and escalate looming. Well theres a solution to this problem and its one was silent for a start button of a hybrid car like the one that belongs to a thirty five year old entrepreneur. The calderons of both but electric energy its one of just a handful in nigeria. Basically from the battery or the engine and. The currents today seem to be stored inside a battery so in these modes my batteries charged. Because the latest one and patches are decent both of which v. G. A. Species the World Bank Says nigerias quality is poor im a danger to Public Health most of those fields you look you see theres also things Carbon Monoxide now when divorce is packed full of all these things you know it shows extra ten days 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 hybrid vehicle use then maintenance over twelve million hybrid vehicles have been sold worldwide but only a few of those have made their way to lagos the Small Community has created a dedicated what sub group on the topic is one of its administrators supports hybrid use us nationwide is not for is not for forty feet boats fall for stalling cells and give us all as an Exchange Information visitors 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 proving a bit difficult to fix and so i did a lot is meeting the head of the once a group to get some more advice. Ek a computer engineer has a surprise in store he just bought a twenty sixteen hybrid that hes happy to show on t. V. Through bonds and a more Efficient Energy storage device leave them on battery. Bought 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 are still more expensive he hopes that someday soon all the calls and his says his road will be high grades or even fully electric. Uganda is one of those african countries seeking to replace plastic bags with more and viral mentally friendly alternatives such as paper according to National Environment management policy namma approximately ninety nine thousand six hundred pounds of polythene waste is released into the environment in uganda but rather than cutting down on trees for people. And rising bagley this income pala putting banana five. Years just so that the trees are protected lets go see the. Plastic bugs are recalled on site in uganda but not at this restaurant in the capital com paula. Instead of plastic bags known locally as cover the money meant here uses people bags and we are very very Environment Friendly and we do not want to use contaminated and i mean. It is definitely reliable which is not only for us its for our children and for our grandchildren and much more. Uganda is planning to implement a bun on plastic shopping bags this year and to replace them with biodegradable paper bags he says encouraged a group of local women to start making paper bags using locally available but one of fiber. Most farms in uganda by then a fiber is considered the waste product but this group is using it to make paper from the cut they are using. After the cutting with them after the cooking we blend them blend them like for five minutes. They turn into a pole with a big container with what to leave them on screens we drain the screen through the fiber and they were to drain south through the holes then we hang it on the rocks to dry. The fiber is left to dry in the sun for at least six hours before it turns into hard to people the women carefully craft the material into a range of products these include pippa shopping bugs books and greetings cards. Produced and. Run five thousand cuts back in the produce time for us to different people come here they see their product or death for many we produce and say in then. In kampala their main claims across shops restaurants and supermarkets. These women hope that the plastic bag will create more opportunities for them in meddling them to expand their market and to protect the environment isnt it great how many options there are to protect our environment in a Sustainable Way in germany for instance its totally hip at the moment to grow your own vegetables but many of these people who do this especially those who live in the cities dont actually own gardens so they now have to pay someone who does i want to grow their fruits and vegetables a kind of rental gap how does it work exactly well nowadays you can guess that there has to be an internet platform involved but then the people who are commissioning this growing also in learning to take responsibility for the crops. Its time for the potato harvest environ out two hours drive from berlin vegetables belonging to city dwellers growing right in an i p gardens half sector of land thats right ip internet protocol garden urbanites can farm crops here without ever having to set foot on the sandy soil gardeners on location take care of the dirty work each online farmer rents a sixteen square meter plot for a euro a day. There would be internet farmers can choose from a variety of crops from lettuce to flowers. In the kingdom and going and going to be used to cultivate a plot of land with my family but the problem was that we couldnt water it isnt it you can go during the week we were in the city of double enough to turn it into reality on a lot of the dozens and most in the reality. Ip garden provides its remote farmers with a massive data once a week a drone even supplies aerial pictures it gives users an overview of the state of their crops. Closed circuit t. V. Guards the farm around the clock. And each of the fifty six individual plots is equipped with sensors. The measuring devices register moisture levels in the soil exposure to sunlight and air pressure. The data is transmitted via bluetooth to a computer which collates the information and puts it on line. Gardeners sitting at his home computer and needs to get his plants enough water these parameters help him decide whether the soil is moist enough and how high is the Electrical Conductivity whats the coefficient and how are my plants looking. This seventh grade students at the plant Thomas School in berlins panko district also want to know how their gardens doing theyve rented an ip garden plot each student has been growing their favorite vegetable on a one metre square allotment they can call up the data gardens Online Platform and water their patch with a mouse click. Staff i think just a tad i basically thought it would be dead easy i said at my computer and press the water button or whatever. But now i know that some plants arent compatible my plants isnt compatible with cabbages and eggplant. And because yellow tomatoes need some support out in the field by app she informs the gardener he can see the tasks he has to perform on each square meter today its fertilizing using a brew of stinging nettles decided digitally carried out on location practical. Attractive but a concept that also has detractors. On the principle when you put forward v. I. P. Garden principle you often hear id rather have my kids dig around themselves. Out of boredom and in fact is that neither you nor their kids actually go digging. Its alarming thats often not realized so in that sense the ip garden is a very good and sensible alternative. It certainly is a healthy alternative the on line farmers can pick up their crop or have it delivered the surplus is donated to a berlin homeless charity. Town in south africa still home type of vegetation currently found anywhere else on the. Floods and the animals that traditionally greystone them have been decimated over the centuries by widespread vision. Of the bushland yes indeed but theyve hope in the form of the ill and there was second largest has a taste for the invasive plants species that im dense uring the flora off the remaining low lands the project is now helping to resettle the creatures in the area where they was lived two hundred years ago the stickler. Centuries ago and to look so common in this area around cape town. In a band i think should have caused the habitat to shrink. Once they have given us vanished some plant species started. Crowding out our unique scrubby vegetation. Dunes tranfield. And her team came up with a clever idea to restore bio diversity in this area the price. Aim to bring back all that used to occur here to commit bush encroachments to open paul and just to break up the wood a component to to give a space for growth and hopes to grow the alliance been in the the thought for two years theyve been browsing away opening poll and we seem to be getting them as a structure back often felt they kept flats junes trend valid currently occupies around fifteen percent of its historic area conserving the endangered fugitive is important to be lazy. Means beach scrub in afrikaans in addition it supports a very high bio mass of browsing animals. The project also employs youth who live in the area to care for the antelope in money to their progress in the field. Has formed a bond with the i mean most. Green or. Many people ive been through. With me they were there from here and. They were. Really across africa by this specific. 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