Conservation Foundation Park in Lagos Nigeria and with me is my charming colleague in johannesburg for the show. Im felicia and great to see you again National Parks are not only the green lawn 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. And 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 full of the remains every year they traverse the sitting pretty fast track to read and use interns i mean in kenya part of it is the famous and get to National Park interns any of the almost fifteen thousand square kilometers and protects countless animals from man came to their west for it. Population growth urchins the wild in this 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 what living meat one pack in malawi consists mainly of water. Its this certain pattern of like malawi and the surrounding area its estimated at around seven hundred species of fish inhabit the lake. Protects nature from two environmental challenges. Pollution. And overfishing. Africas large lets have all been overfished the population of some of species have collapsed 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 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 playmates africas missional packs are not just important to the People Living there but 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 king to protect us a rare species. The town of because who enjoys an idyllic location on lake kivu one of africas great lakes the cathedral is an art deco masterpiece and close by is co whos a bigger National Park with its tourist magnet guerrillas the visitors arent coming for the last twenty years a bloody conflict has been fourteen east congo all the mineral resources. Into poverty blights the 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. Called many very much by the way these mushrooms help to protect the National Park because the women dont need to go out there to scavenge from the awful. Its not mass tourism which is damaging the environment but the locals themselves the popo foundation in cities residents about the value of conservation the environmentalists are taking the most room girl was during the war ching 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 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 be jailed and they were forced to pay fines. When the ranger explains the ground rules for visiting the gorillas always keep your distance as humans can prove fatal if transmitted to the animals right then be authentic for me and he put him on the ground for certain youre going to call the police. If you provide 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 newcomb. Its quite safe in this part of the park but in other areas rebel groups operate they can be more dangerous than the gorillas. In this city you wouldnt if you first i was afraid they would bite but now im happy to have seen them and i didnt realize the park was so important. You should match the former rangers strategy of holding back seems to be working. On a plane than any one in the future i will help to protect the park and make sure no one comes scavenging so the gorillas can stay safe. Whether the girl was able to keep their promises will depend on how the regional economy develops everyone is hoping plenty of tourists will come to see the gorillas that should help to bring change for the better. Way come on someone to do you can see how were protecting this World Heritage site but if youre here in the park and thats no problem with venus youre back and its not because big i would like more tourists to come here so theres a future for us ranges and our families have to restrain spending money the gorillas seem relaxed and low level tourism can help this certain species hordes of tourists are in any case unlikely until this piece. 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 poland as National Park. Its a very serious problem in finance but. Almost every two three days theres an incident where that i was killed were now in a situation where the that laid off and i know killings exceeds their reproduction. He wants more than one was being born. You need to give. The guy whos walking into that example with a gun provide him with a note tell it of source of income in order to be my sponsor i believe food that for as long as people see people underground see money in poaching it will continue but in time. With with with improved intelligence gathering well be able to know and i dissipate when these guys are coming their modus operandi and we will be named in the position to having quite a big impact in the us reduce the access. To believe we need to open not is it for everybody and make sure that even those people of low 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. Then deserves National Party important in and i forgot because they couldnt serve why did they need to have states may sustain jobs for which people. Can come and he while. Sauce off. Sort of part of the income generation they are there for people to see to enjoy and therefore we need to conserve them to protect them into the future. I believe a path that National Parks where. Nature is preserved and protected need to seize the felt the animals or the small and the big ones. A deal where the people surrounding that reserve have access of course benefits then that are you one area where people are happy to do this it people are happy to see flooding and that accommodates all people who wants to play with lice. Now a lot of work and certainly planning goes into maintaining our beautiful National Parks and not just on land but also id see they are marine protected areas too like the coral reefs of south africas coast the former unique eco system and many functions from what appears to cation to cost line protection they also provide habitats for all kinds of animals and plants all that makes to refinance 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 go to your script produce and spread for hundreds or millions of years theyve been building bush in briefs and ensuring their own survival. In devon marine biologists are collecting at least six else gold game its to study the identity of potential most cohorts living woman typical waters. In this part of the ocean Natural Selection has lived only species that can cope with that awful lesions found in the seas around south africa so thats a lot of our our research is trying to figure out. What is the genetic basis of all existence of susceptibility how our races are connected on a genetic level how how. What sort of movement of logging and. Of getting and. How does that inform our. Plans to protect. The reefs out of a virus because systems that produce an important habitat 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 alkie. When Ocean Temperatures get to all 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 a unity position 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 seem to be a bit deeper the tropical we spread to the surface so this 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 countrys not eastern coastline the hope is that this area might provide a breeding lift for a course that can survive in woman to people regions. Here to be done in the monger lisa whitman park jims who is in charge of marine protection. One of the thinking mans father scientific basics and that is possible they. Are corals in south africa was wrong when he said it could actually benefit part of a warming base as the. Water temperatures rise they will. Try to area for the corals to extend for the south. But what my temperature has and the only factor affecting could reefs and other major problem in ocean spall over the world is marine pollution in dublin one month thinking ahead. To get that with colleagues from around the world dr peotone is working on kyle preserving coral gables. For him they had an insurance policy for by the city if worst comes to worst whats called under such immediate threat. We need on ways to preserve. The diversity have. A situation inside in many areas if. 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 day one city 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 dinner 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 round title is turning this waste into a resource. He collects coffee grounds from cafes and uses them to grow gore may mushrooms. He mixes the grounds with spawn. Puts them into bags 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. Maybe you like that. If you are also to newbie tell us about. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit through share your story. Now 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 felicia while and believe me school not the only place where the Public Water System doesnt always work the way it should but the filters are a Good Alternative to using file which 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 a 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 you 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. It would work tough for drinking. To all we how this it can sample we see it has few treaties as you can see it does long tours through commended for drinking and we begin the fact sample from the symptom which. Way to live but still going to commended 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. One hundred u. S. Dollars linda negi one works in sales. San paulo nationals in there is quite a unique school because there was a consumption is that you too high so that means that well by using the poly 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 different organizations we can reach this big. Purifying tap or a 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 sewer a school with over a thousand students. Are losing a very big difference because last years my dad was in good a tad johns and it was some sickness but this time from what tastes we have found its own form going. 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 court africa a joint environmental magazine production by charles t. V. On quest say on behalf of the entire team thanks for joining us on bye bye for this week former National Conservation park in Lagos Nigeria. However we got some tourney amazing animals and landscapes if youre active in animal conservation do share your story and also actual media websites wed love to hear from you until next week im Felicia Ennis be here in johannesburg good buy. The be. The first spect. On the brand new series. My name is larry its been music up and its been an. Old maid and maybe even a creative superman. In thirty minutes on the mob. Board. Cut the first time. To sit in the. Dark corner credible its a whole new morning to. The mind in some respects. You must realize its a new era sexuality. Will not sickness be a thing a for sexual frustration too much i still have to get used to these robot noises exploring the new frontier in sex and love three point zero just such stuff on september twenty fifth on t. W. And unusual friendship. This is the story of paul and. 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