Parks are not only the green line of the continent theyre also so much more as well soon find out. Heres what weve got in store for you today. We catch a rare glimpse of a mountain gorilla in the wild in the d. R. Sea. Find out how a simple water filter changes the lives of schoolchildren in uganda. And well hear how scientists are fighting to preserve coral reefs off the coast of south africa. Have you ever wondered why countries need National Parks and nature reserves why cant wild animals just roam freely why does the government have to spend so much money on protecting plants and animals all reporter breaks down for us just how vital National Parks are to african countries. Its one of the one of the most amazing natural spectacles the great migration of wind based in east africa over a million of them follow the rains every year they traverse this isnt guilty of fast track to read and use interns and kenya part of it is the famous sit in Getting National park interns any of the covers almost fifteen thousand square kilometers and protects countless animals from mine came to their west for it. Population growth threatens the world and its a region throughout the continent africas population is projected to almost double by twenty fifty and rich to be. One of the most difficult challenges for africas National Parks is leaving enough land for both anymore and humans. Play a major role in protecting a Precious Resource water and wont leave the meat one park in malawi consists mainly of water. Its this open patter of little malawi and the surrounding area its estimated at around seven hundred species of fish inhabit the lake. That protects nature from two environmental challenges. Pollution. And overfishing. Africas large lakes have all been overfished the population of some of species have collapse by eighty percent that makes protected areas even more important in the National Park conservationists and local people want to give that to cleanup and help use of biodiversity. Poaching is a college in many parts of africa there are more than three hundred National Parks and protected areas guarded by thousands of people many put their lives in danger to make sure the animals are safe about. The congo basin is a vast rain forest part of it is the National Park in the Central African republic the park is home to forest elephants and lowland gorillas its estimated the vegetation in the congo basin strohs as much as thirty billion tonnes of Carbon Dioxide that sequestering is crucial for the claymates africas National Parks are not just important to the People Living there they be a vital role for the whole. Cause a big National Park is home to the Worlds Largest gorilla species but still all of the borders of eastern call go and rwanda has decimated the population Animal Rights activists report but less than one hundred of these great apes remain in the region. A local Environmental Initiative has taken up the fight to stop purchasing and to protect the lowland gorillas still that people can also benefit from the conservation measures in the law so that so a keen to protect this rare species. The town of because who enjoys an ideally to locations on lake kivu one of africas great lakes the cathedral is an art deco masterpiece and close by is cousy bigger National Park with its tourist magnet guerrillas the visitors arent coming for the last twenty years of bloody conflict has been fourteen east congo all the mineral resources. Into poverty plots to villages on the edge of the park tourism could create new jobs but right now one of the few sources of income is a mushroom farm set up by an environmental group. Goldman him up right away lees mushrooms help to protect the National Park because the women dont need to go out there to scavenge from the one about food. Its not mass tourism which is damaging the environment but the locals themselves the Cocoa Foundation a citys residents about the value of conservation the environmentalists are taking the most room girl was going to watch ing on the way to the National Park we need some local farmers many of them use the National Park land although this is illegal they graze their cattle coach game scavenge and chop down trees this form a forest ranger understands the farmers often have no alternative to the Community Around here theyre too poor very poor and a lot of the Poverty Level they were all was arrested in the park and been jailed and they were forced to pay fines. When the range explains the ground rules for visiting the gorillas always keep your distance as human james can prove fatal it transmitted to the animals from earth and be a fanatic for me and what she minorca be certain youre going to call the police. If you go but its the first time the growers have seen the great apes. So most are more excited than afraid. And then theyre off into the heart of the rainforest theres a lot of money to be made from gorilla watching in rwanda and uganda. Track as well as the gorillas daily movements it often takes hours to find them but today were not. A short walk takes us to a family of nineteen gorillas led by the silverback chima newquay. Its quite safe in this part of the park but in other areas rebel groups operate they can be more dangerous than the gorillas. When they see you wouldnt you first i was afraid they were bite but now im happy to have seen them i didnt realize the park was so appalled and i mean. The former ranger strategy of holding back seems to be working. On a limb then and then in the future i will help to protect the park and make sure no one comes scavenging of the gorillas can stay safe in my hands at the restaurant and she. Whether the growers are able to keep their promises will depend on how the regional economy develops everyones hoping painty of tourists will come to see the gorillas that you helped to bring change for the better. Blake among some on today you can see were protecting this World Heritage site but if youre here in the park and thats no problem with venus you park in its not because big wed like more tourists to come here so theres a future for us ranges and our families. To restrain. The gorillas seem relaxed and low level tourism can help this certain species hordes of tourists are in any case unlikely until this peace in eastern congo. Just one example of the kind of pressure National Parks face and its primarily we humans will cause the problems. Even when the animals are left in peace theres still plenty to do to protect an area like thats a good point felicia its important to be aware of the challenges part management face and thats why we went to south africa to talk to an expert about it we met with John Mark Karr park manager of the poland iceberg National Park. Fortunes a very serious problem in felines but. Almost every two three days theres an incident where that i was killed we are now in a situation where the. That i made off and i know killings exceeds their reproduction he wants more dinosaur killer than one was being born. You need to get the poacher the guy whos walking into that example with a gun provide him with a no tell it a source of income in order to minimize poaching i believe that for as long as people see people underground see money in poaching it will continue but in time. With with what improve intelligence gathering well be able to know and i dissipate when these guys are coming their modus operandi and weve been in the position to have been quite a big impact and thus reduce the excess into that is if. You believe we need to open not is it for everybody and make sure that even those people of lower with low income can access these resists for self intertainment and also for educational purposes so i dont think that would be something that would concede in the short term but again it depends on what you know what the bought system what government regulates in the future. Game deserves National Party important in and i forgot because they can serve a wide net and i have to take a sustained jobs from which people. Can come read while i eat sauce off. Sort of part of the income generation they are there for people to see to enjoy and they see if we need to conserve them to protect them into the future. I believe a pepperton is no puggy swaying. Nature us preserved and protected later we seize the felt the animals mow the small and the big ones. A deal with the people surrounding that reserve have access of course benefits generally one area where people are happy to to visit people are happy to see flooded and that accommodates of people who wants to to utilize it. Now a lot of work and certainly planning goes into maintaining our beautiful National Parks and not just on land but also ive see they are marine protected areas too like the coral reefs of south africas coast the former unique ecosystem in many functions from what appears to cation to cost line protection they also provide hobby tests for all kinds of animals and plants all that makes the reef durban well worth protecting but it also gives scientists valuable insight into how such a sensitive system can be protected from the long term effects of Climate Change. This is how to produce and spread for hundreds of millions of vs have been building bush in briefs and ensuring their own survival. In devon marine biologists are collecting at least six else gold. To study the identity of potential most course leaving woman to the cool waters in this part of the ocean Natural Selection has lived only species that can cope with the rough when they 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 the system for susceptibility how our races are connected on a genetic level how how. What sort of movement of blogging and a tale of getting and. How does that inform. Plans to protect. The reefs out of a virus because systems that produce an important habitats 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 to will this relationship breaks down. The paled turning the corner white and effectively starving it like here in the sea shells reefs in south africa have mostly been spared at least so far that appears and his colleagues believe thats down to our genetic disposition that makes them less vulnerable to change in their environment. Our 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 a bit deeper the tropical waves grow to the surface so this this all assists 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 countrys North Eastern coastline the hope is that this area might provide a breeding lift for course that can survive in woman to people regions. Here in d. C. Monger 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 and the surrounding lisa predicted benefit level warming because as the. Water temperatures rise being here to. Try to area for the corals to extend for the south. But what temperatures arent the only factor affecting coral reefs another major problem in ocean spall over the world is marine pollution in dublin one man is thinking ahead. To give that with colleagues from around the world dr peter is working on kyle preserving coral games. For him an insurance policy for biodiversity if worst comes to washed. It was called under such immediate threat. When the on ways to preserve. The first. Time the situation is inside in many areas is. We have. Something like. Its a race against time experts say around half of the planets coral reefs could die by twenty fifty taking with them much of the diversity and beauty in the wild beneath the waves. So you see the world would be a poorer place without our National Parks and the dedication of the people who work in them and it also reminds us once again that we all must do our bit in other to preserve this beautiful planet how about turning waste into something wonderful. Did you know that worldwide more than two billion cups of coffee are consumed every day that general mountains of used grounds that simply get tossed into the bin lets see what some people in europe are making out of it. Did you know that you can promo shrooms on coffee grounds. Germans love their coffee. Twenty three hundred cups are consumed every second in the country. But only point two percent of the beans actually end up in the cup. The rest lands in the garbage as coffee grounds. Entrepreneur ralph title is turning this waste into a resource. He collects coffee grounds from cafes and uses them to grow gor main mushrooms. He mixes the grounds with spawn. Puts them into banks and ships them to customers. They add a little bit of water and after a few days the mushroom start to sprout. Every box produces up to three harvests around five hundred grams of yummy mushrooms and all. The you like that. If you are also doing your bit jealous of them. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit you share your story. Just as in many other parts of africa direct access to clean Drinking Water is a luxury in uganda especially in the rule areas more than twenty three million ugandans are still without it while there was plenty of swamp land and open water this is on fit for drinking and thats why a social business called impact water is looking into providing filters to schools in Kenya Nigeria and uganda for leisure while and believe me schools operate only place where the Public Water System doesnt always work the way it should but the filters are a Good Alternative to using filers to boil water all reports from uganda is about encouraging schools to change their ways for the sake of the environment. For three weeks now. Has had to chop up more wood than usual. Shes the kitchen helper at st Pauls Catholic seminary in fort portal in western uganda. She needs a lot of firewood to boil fifteen hundred liters of Drinking Water every day. So we boil the water for different purposes to cook and drink. I dont know how much weight we need to burn for each thing but i know we need a lot of what we need. More than two hundred know this year its live and study in the seminary along with teachers and staff and they all need Drinking Water. But tests showed the facilities Water Purification system isnt working properly this time might. Lead to good work tough for drinking. We how sick in some weakness it has to be it is as you can see. It is not those who committed for drinking and we begin to fact sample from the simple bit which is. Quite good but still you want to commend you for drinking. The problem is that the poly filters for the Water Purification system are clogged up technician son you piazzi has to replace them he shows Health Officer vincent can a mater how the system has to be serviced in the future vincent will have to perform regular maintenance. This is how the poly filter looks after half a year of use the system is use so much that a clean new filter will have to be inserted every other month in. A system like this costs four and a half million ugandan shillings about two. Hundred u. S. Dollars linden negi one works in sales. San paulo nationals in there is quite a unique school because they will take on such an easy to talk highway so that means that over using the pulley few tears and that also means that they have to replace them quite regularly. This is come the capital of uganda population one of the half million a number of companies here now offer Water Purification systems by the end of twenty eighteen london iggy ones firm plans to quadruple the number of schoolchildren it provides with Drinking Water to two point eight million we believe with the support from the church the government and you think were going to raise issues we can reach we speak. She refining tap or well water with one of these systems is not only a lot cheaper than boiling out its also better for the environment. Back in the small town of fort portal and western uganda impact water has contracts with more than three hundred schools. Since the beginning of the year one of them is new york a serous school with over one thousand students. Are losing a very big difference because last years my dad was in the mood to tad johns and it was some sickness but this time for what tastes we have time to eat so she form. And in the nearby seminary as well there is now clean Drinking Water from the purification system for the midday meal for the region the seminarians used an immense amount fifteen hundred liters a day in the future theyll just have to change the filter more often. And weve come to the end of a special edition featuring National Parks youve been watching in court africa a joint environmental magazine production by charles t. V. 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