Much after one hundred gives the ideals of the favs are more relevant today than they were a hundred years ago generis shaped to color the boss people in the way of shaping society. With ideas that are part of. The house world three part documentary starts january thirteenth on t w. Welcome to this edition of africa then environmental magazine show its cover to spike in germany channels t. V. And i and present to be in south africa im felicia industry and im happy to be
sharing the limelight with my colleague not to hello there and hi felicia yes im not in lagos i mean gonna cry gonna put together some exciting environmental topics from africa and europe for you today will be looking at the importance of c grasses to the oceans and how some scientists develop a to fish will soon graph but heres what else is coming up on the show. With me the young man in kenya who has gone into business as a selfemployed we wish. We hunt for making our way and visit the reptile rescue center. And we take a look at of course job protection and solvency leisure and what it means for the future of fisherman. Hundreds of people in the Kenyan Capital live from go up. In down dura where one of nairobis biggest dumpsites is located we speakers come every day to sort through the rubbish amongst them its twenty eight year old gardening or chair he views his work as an Essential Service and himself as a selfemployed businessman he has specialized and can make a Descent Living from salvaging garbage. Garbage covering an area bigger than thirty football fields just a few kilometers from the center of nairobi every day hundreds of trucks haul trash here from the city. The dump is like a Big Unorganized Recycling Center some people like godwin here almost every day salem you have heard of us were moved after the i sift through the garbage because im trying to earn a little money. Im no longer on my own with the knife and i have a wife and child now and theyre waiting for me to come home with milk or bread in
the evening i cant go back empty handed. The Kenyan Capital produces nearly two thousand tons of trash every day. The Sanitation Department is overwhelmed most of the waste ends up like this in the dumps outside the city. The Garbage Collectors gather up Food Plastic Paper and scrap metal some of which they sell. They can buy labor least its work there are no jobs to be had these days and a lot of young people from the streets trying to eke out a living here at the dump site if it werent for the dumpsite these kids would probably have become thieves but they are here. At the end of the day they make about two hundred shellings each. Thats roughly two dollars the people here deliver Raw Materials they supply the city with Precious Metals from electronic scrap or deliver plastic to the few private recycling companies. After a good eight hours work brings his finds to a small courtyard to see what he can convert almost everything hes collected into money. Please. If i sell these containers today i might get around Three Hundred to four hundred shillings and thats enough to feed my family today and. And tomorrow afternoon before i return home after work. Income of three or four dollars a day listen over the International Poverty line set by The World Bank at one dollar and ninety cents where the plastic containers discarded cutlery only electric cables that can be sold to alter a fair shops in the slums theres a demand for recycled goods. And thats also true of discarded food. Feeds pigs goats and chickens with it when the animals are full grown he sells them to a local slaughter house. Since Two Thousand And Three the government has enacted laws
intended to regulate environmentally friendly waste management. But consumers and Waste Producers dont seem to care at the edge of the dump a lively informal trade has sprung up delivers what kenyas recycling Industry Needs goods and materials are sold by weight. Even the markets in the Dun Dora District Profits from the garbage dump many reusable products can be found in the stalls people who live in the slums can buy things here that they wouldnt be able to afford new. Fifty is that he or that. I get it. When i went down last week ive wanted one had it. But now ive got it theyre only going to put my eye fell on that. Closing the garbage dump would threaten the survival of many people here. But its
very apparent that a lot more needs to be done to combat poverty in kenya. I think those with money should open Something Like a Resource Center that could help lift those who have little or help young people facing a tough life. With Senior Moments he did at least that would help reduce poverty in the slum you get everything needed to set up a large Recycling Center is right here says godwin. Rule materials manpower and markets although done tours informal Recycling Sector ensures an income for many the massive dumb puts a huge strain on the people and the environment. In shallow waters around the word large areas of the ocean floor covered by sea grass on the water meter was
called The Rain Forest of the sea they are vulnerable just like The Rain Forest on lad and damage to see Grass Results in the roshan loss of biodiversity the slow growing plant i need time to recover thats why scientists in germany are trying to help out with artificial seagrass. It grows just off the coast in areas where the sea floor is flat. Huge beds of seagrass are often called The Oceans Rain Forests and they play a similar role in Marine Ecology they offer countless species both sustenance and Protection Seagrass spends also produce oxygen and sequitur Carbon Dioxide by binding it in a long term form and monitored for the last two years with the project see art roll
v. N. Wave and his colleagues have been trying to find out what other vital functions the marine plants might fulfil. They help damp down energy transmitted in waves and also curb the power of currents. That in turn helps cut down on sea better ocean so the sea grass helps stabilize it. So it plays a role in Coastal Protection because the waves that arrive on the coast strike it with less energy. Of. The first step for the researchers was to examine the condition of the sea grass beds on germanys coasts the results show that agriculture on land is proving poisonous to the marine plants Global Warming is also causing massive algae blooms that cut off the light that sea grass needs to grow european universities and partners from industry are working together on this project theres a huge amount of sea grass in the tropics but its disappearing there because
fishers often use dynamite and because trenches are being cut to lay pipelines that creates these corridors through the beds and on its own the sea grass is unable to repopulate those areas. Now artificial sea grass could help provide a solution to the problem just like its natural counterpart and it would help dampen wave energy and prevent see that erosion providing the right conditions for natural sea grass to grow back into. The plastic sea grass is still in testing. The researchers want to know how long the blades have to be to prove effective and where the material has to be flexible and where it needs to be stiff. The testing at this facility should prove insightful. The anyway of all and his colleagues try out currents at different speeds that tells them how well theyre artificial sea
grass beds breaks the currents. It works just like real sea grass it behaves in a way thats very similar to Real Sea Grass Field full of. The experiments that we performed we learned that the speed of the current changes both within our beds and on the upstream side of it. But as the mounts. They construct being made of Natural Fibers or plastic and the researchers are still looking for the optimal material sciences. Ousting that and the one it has to be as close as possible to The Real Thing but also easy to produce. And most importantly it has to disappear without a trace as natural sea grass grows back this kind of Research Takes time in the dark frigid salt water off Northern Europe the materials theyre Testing Break down very slowly on the tom and i tradition our dream is to produce a Prototype Module that can be adjusted to fit very different environmental
conditions. And they dont have to be able to cope with different types of currents as well as the different microorganisms mission. Lensman the sea our Research Team wants to develop their prototype as quickly as possible because time is of the essence The Worlds Marine Rain Forests are disappearing at the rate of over twenty football fields a day. With a lot of reports nice reports about people who practice recycling up cycling from car tires us Service Furniture to bryants of making a move of Drinking Straws a womans corporate reform book in our process i have an idea like there are right yes and they tend past it bags into new products its the latest episode about doing your bit series where we introduce initiatives or innovative people who are doing their bit for the environment. And the interest it waste just as the environment and contaminates the soil. And plastic bags of the biggest problem and. Get frey is a womens cooperative in back enough on. Combining eco protection on female empowerment. The women wash the plastic bags and disinfect them. The backs accustomed to strips thus creating plastic threads. Put them on the spindle and you can weave exquisite fabrics its the Source Material for briefcases and divine riots of of the chic banks. Prices range from twenty to fifty euros. The women and their own money
up to One Hundred Fifty euros a week. It allows them to support their families. One of the same time protecting the environment. Like that. So to move to tell us about it. Through the website. For better. Or worse. When you encounter a snake there try to get away from it as fast as possible while Abraham Brown just stays put hes a professional Snake Handler in zimbabwe you can call him if a snake gets into your yard hell come and catch it and take it to a snake park where he teaches schoolchildren about why the reptiles need to be protected and why we dont need to fear many of these creatures. The ambulance is
on standby in case things go wrong for the divine there are professional snake rescue us in the southwest to zimbabwe and ive been called out by a woman who is frightened a snake my tom how young son where did you say. Its a highly venomous cobra its bite can be fatal. Oh yes. If the snake feels provoked it might strike but that is cured secrets lies in remaining calm and cautious. With the good. Bandit egyptian cobra cobra very big very hard to snack many people simply kills next if they see them but this
woman acted correctly now both the snake and the family are fine. The snake cant last put the cobra in a plastic container then we later set it free in a suitable place abraham and divine go on race commissions about four times a week they walk for the victoria forced snake by Christian Center to call them out costs about twenty euros we get from the screws to things Like Companies sometimes in her toes for capturing snakes but sometimes we have a situation like that those people tried to kill a snake and by the time it got to be willing to. Defame us victoria force roll with life the snake buckys nearby it sounds as a risk you center and also teaches locals and tourists about snacks. Abrahamian divine will keep the cup cobra here until they find a Natural Environment i way from Human Habitation where they can believe that
around eighty species of snakes can be found in zimbabwe they add an important part of the ecosystem and i also of use to humans for example they control the rat Population Rascon destroy crops and food stalls and spread diseases but this next habitat is training as a Human Habitations expand and forests are banned to make room for farmland most next species in zimbabwe are not protected by the law so ever humming divine are trying to raise awareness they teach school kids why snigs are important for the system and how to behave to watch them. To move together like one at a time. Back number theyll come up to you mostly when youre gone history or when youre quite right ok. Black members theyve got a coffin head to head to the head. With the snakes here is fun for the. Many snakes in zimbabwe. When people nor weeks ones are homeless there are lists likely to kill them. And i learnt a lot about snakes we can talk to identify snakes we learned the different colors they mostly just beautiful and china to help our. Divine hope that if kids learn to love snakes they will put to them in the future. Now lets head to Port Elizabeth in south africa and we enter the joe slovo township where more than sixty percent unemployed have to survive on very little money and often have to contend with violence around in just the Township Kevin came with designs buildings that can be used as Youth CentersNursery Schools and workshops for local businesses and theyre all made from Recycled Materials dr believes it is green and sustainable designs can be used to empower local communities we had
a look around. South africas cities are growing rapidly architects are looking for ways to provide millions of new residents with Affordable Housing one of them is kevin kim well a here in the joe slovo township near cape town hes developing Green Buildings that are within the means of the people who live here both affordable and sustainable. In south africa six to seventy percent of the people live in this environment and they want to for the. Solar panels so it needs a different approach. To Community Members themselves. With support from the city the local university and the Community Came well and this Building Facilities that are needed here such as a youth center and a community home. Right now as his team is busy
constructing workshops for local businesses the Community Architect keeps costs low by avoiding Expensive Technology and by conserving resources Recycled Materials make up eighty percent of his buildings favorite are old pallets. So pilots are very accessible and the idea is to use a material that is a review of. The community its hope these workshops will improve quality of life by providing affordable space to Small Business people like. There are no Garbage Trucks and joe slovo so together with her daughters she picks up trash and sells valuable materials they find to recycling companies. Is excited about her new workshop until now shes worked from a shed behind her house she helped design and build her new premises. The extra space will allow her to work more efficiently and develop a small Recycling Business for the township. But. Its so much easier now because now its im not going to. Like these. Insights in the crate so that they can be safe they are not safe outside everyone can see them and still. The workshop is not kim well as first project he started by building this Daycare Center it had room for eighty children sheltering them from heat and rain and was hailed as a groundbreaking work of green architecture the Day Care Center and the other facilities were meant to promote change here but that vision could not compete with raw Political Violence today the center is concerted. He wont give in
and well keep working to make the township more livable. I tend to feel like if we despair then who who will who will. Who will come in who will come and do something you know and we all kind of have this vision and we hope that it will come together kevin kim well i continues to Gain International attention and his Community Project was nominated last year for a design award for the Ecosystem Internet says gulf of god is extremely fragile the areas heavily polluted by urban and industrial waste water thats right felicia its the sense of a countrys Phosphate Processing Industry which has been ravaging the environment on shore and off shore for years the European Union is trying to revive the region by funding things like off shore and Wastewater Treatment plants on land but is it
really benefiting the local population in the way it was intended it could africa went out and asked some of them about this. Allow you to towie has worked as a fisherman for over forty years he cant imagine doing anything else yet life is hard here in ga base four hundred Fifty Kilometers south of the tunisian capital tunis Water Quality has been badly affected by the citys phosphate Processing Plant but elias says the only option is to keep on fishing had a total. I have a Spiritual Connection to the city my draw the door the move away from here. We have no where the job opportunities. Together with local agencies and e. U. Funded Pilot Project aimed at reducing the environmental degradation is no wonder way to protect the sea from Overfishing Fishing Rights are being restricted and
activity closely monitored Artificial Reefs are also being put in place. Today the fishermen are invited for a Town Hall Discussion theyre being introduced to the project in part to win them over because not everyone here is thrilled by developments just how it wants to persuade them of the benefits. Some reject the idea. But out good name is at stake. The Artificial Reef here is five to ten metres high a lot has already changed weve managed for one to reintroduce the red moat it was gone from here for a long time. Its. The Artificial Reefs are sunk at two locations plants take root on their Concrete Slabs and fish can spawn there undisturbed thats a long term boon for the Fishing Communities as well the project isnt only focused on the sea on land money has also been invested in
a park solar panels have been installed to supply its energy needs its a kind of local Recreation Area which its hoped will also attract tourists the park even comes with an amphitheater that will also be used for educational purposes. The man in charge of the project shows us Water Filtration equipment thats also been installed to treat water polluted by the phosphate industry. No it can be used to water plants Seven Hundred terrorists have been planted here. And. The Facility Consists of five eco filters joined up as a network. Once theyre installed the filters enable the water to be physically chemically logically cleaned of impurities meaning the bacteria get killed off and the water can be recycled. Back to the sea and the fishermen the Project Managers want to hear what they perceive as their biggest problems and i have to
tell he says that Factory Fishing Fleets are threatening the regions ecological balance they use dragnets that are illegal and destroy the fish spawning grounds. As if they were. The project will put a stop to the chaos in the Fishing Sector and the illegal fishing. Because the main problem and its bad for the local fisherman. The project is expected to be complete by the end of this year elia tally is counting on its success and is doing all he can to support it hes not alone in hoping that fish stocks will recover in the long term. And once again weve reached the end of our Environment Magazine for today i hope you enjoyed the topics and got a lot out of now its goodbye from me in our quad for this week and thanks to you. For misha thanks for a great show and were looking forward to having you on again next week right to us
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