name is crystal omes are with me, is my charming co host saga hello from capella? i am sandra, twin over you wonder for to have you with us. and hopefully we're going to inspire you. we bit climate heroes and innovative ideas to improve the environment. and also clean up nature, coming up on the, shall we, head to somalia, wesley or drunk is making life difficult for the holidays. we also visit farmers in britain while reduced the amount of newfound cows and mix and go to gambia, where researchers of teamed up with local people to collect climate data on the ganga river electron mobility, either starting to take off in africa, many new initiatives or looking for ways to expand the sustainable technology. now in some city, other public transport is getting on board. when reason a living in mobility couple solutions. and kenya is really taking the long buy loans in climate friendly bonds. to cut melissa on leg victoria with as dusk fools. jared or tiana heads out on to lake victoria. since he started using an electric motor, he and his team no longer have to breathe im exhaust fumes. and it's not as noisy. oliver or tinney was one of the few fishermen here who started using an electric motor last year. it's much easier before he was constantly having to change gears or so. you have to be careful with stubborn. so any throw tips. it might order me get contact with a manila you this 1st tree or the gear saw removing you to gum cumbersome reviews. one you just do just automatically come up with them. he only has the electric motor and batteries on loan from a company called or silver gilbert. every morning he returns the used batteries, and in the evening he receives a freshly charged set, a sober rents out the motors for the equivalent of around $38.00 euros a month. the batteries cost 7 years 50 per day. the dutch startup, as silva had to do a lot of math to develop this business model, they saw the batteries and motors from germany. here in kenya, they have technicians who take care of the repairs and maintenance. they also offer a 24 hour service. if there are problems on the water, the fishermen have to call their rescue number that we can resolve on encore. but sometimes when their technical issues are not in a position to be solved during that time, we have to, we have to send out as to what to go, pull them back, or maybe change something, a component of the engine for that matter. the batteries are equipped with gps track is so that the boats can be precisely located in case of emergency in a look at it, every new customer receives a free training session. so it depends on the graphic little in just a few days. they learned the most important things that reverse m theory well then practice on the water to get used to the email that was movie and local. joshua rocha has been involved since the start and understands what the fisherman need. the company we lou lou lou will need to to do some modification online only that he says that the inital mortgagee cover luca, i'll official man, most of them try to go find the stars as silva is working to improve the situation that it's made contact with companies and kenya and uganda that refurbish used batteries. these could be rented out to the fisherman at a cheaper rate. in the 2nd life batteries will make them more duleigh. so that also we might, we mimic the current operations of our customers. but if, if a customer want to go far, we give them more bodies, then we charge this rich, i'd feed, but, but to the lake you want to go far. we give you full batteries, you want to go short distance. we give you one or 2 batteries and you pay for what you are used. a sofa was the 1st company in kenya to invest in e, mobility on water. and one of the few in general on the countries a market. electric mobility is still in its infancy here. there are some electric cars and buses and even some e bikes. warren, on don gay rides, one of them. he's a member of a e. m. d, a, an association that provides a platform for the nearly 20 companies investing in e mobility in kenya. the aim is to organize a lobby urging politicians to promote electric vehicles. people are excited about immobility, endo petite, that he brings. it has tremendous environment of benefits. but unless we have the right incentives to allow for the final price and the value to the customer to be affordable than immobility might just as well be an illusion that will struggle. that gets towards around $25000.00, close out on lake victoria every day. and many of them belong to kenyan fishermen who used combustion engines, which pollute the lake and home the fish population. often the fishermen only get small silver cypress from the lake. and there catch quotas have also declined in recent years. jared or tina is wife and mother take care of the catch every morning . first drawing it and then selling it as quickly as possible. the fish are the main source of income for the family of 12. they also use the money to pay the school fees for their, for children. and they've even managed to build a 2nd boat. jared atlanta wants to equip this one with an electric motor too. he has a plan for his family, get my father on sorts of fishermen then now is mere fishing. then what of my children saw out of this one? i'm praying god willing that my children not to be the fishing nurse. so the sooner the better another system does, why now i'm so i put in a 2 cushion provided additional from bare b if they're employed to become change my, our life. jared a t n o has already persuaded some other fishermen to switch to electric motors. but he and a sofa, a still among the pioneers of e mobility and it will take many more like them to see a benefit to like victoria and it's fish. it is an encouraging start setting, a good example and spreading the wide ease of great, which is park a positive change for the environment. absolutely. sandra. other have another example of that from england. the toss family knows that cows don't your supply else with meter milk. the, our digestive process emits lot, or the greenhouse gas methane after trying out various ways to reduce those emissions. they've come up with a promising solution. cows exude a certain com. they're also very intelligent and a key source of food for humanity. john and edward towers have a special bond with these animals. father and son are dairy farmers in northern england. their only concern is that they cows produce large quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. wheaton solve the problems that we've got with an industry . and it's affecting the planet in a bad way. we can't produce milk and people can drink milk. we need to solve these problems as an industry for the industry to carry on, because it's not serving upon well wishing other. there is some 1500000000 cows on the planet. they produce a 3rd of the world's methane emissions, mainly through their belt. ching, this makes them a climate hazard. so the towers are experimenting with a new type of feed supplement made from garlic and citrus. it influences enzymes in the cow stomach and in testing ah, the result is astonishing. the kinds of mit left me think the toe is received regular visits from other farmers, an agricultural expert like these representatives from a livestock auction house. the, i always want their visitors to recommend the new product so that more farmers can reduce their carbon trip. print is about 50 percent of most farms. carbon footprint is that and sorry may fella machine. so it would then knock your and frankly knock our product down by about 15 percent in terms of the overall carbon footprint. this is the product we're, we've been feeding. so the galaxy such as that chart is fairly strong smelling. if you want to have a low with, i don't get too close. guess. ill knock your socks off, but clearly the mole tentative stick cow's milk, such as soy oat, an element, milk have been gaining popularity in recent years. that's a trend. the towers find very concerning their family has lived in lancashire, for centuries. farm as he is say, the soil is too poor for most crops, but perfect for cows to graze on. protecting the air is something farmer john towers sees as his special responsibility. a fail, i am very fortunate to be working with the younger generation of my family who are probably more foresighted than i am. and there could see the change coming faster than i could see common. and they've driven our business in that direction to face the challenge and to adapt our market to what our consumer is actually looking for . feeding the garlic supplement to that $400.00 pounds cost. the tower is about 20000 years a year. it's how is that the milk will be a part of emissions trading and future, allowing pharmacy to offset the additional costs. he has many more plans for the future. i want to put solar panels on and i want to have electric chances. and i want to let you know have a, have a. busy cover of ill again so that i can capture them a fan and use it for instructors, online things, cost money, and if we do them all at once, run out of cash. and then we are a terrible example evening, more than ideas we're going to work. and so it's a case if i'm sometimes raining in your ambitions or making sure you got partnerships with other companies that also have the same kind of values issue. john, how is said many farm is an old school. i'm reluctant to change, but father and son aim to do everything in their power to make other dairy farmers more climate conscious. and they have one good argument in their favor. then milk doesn't taste if gornick at all. according to the european statistical office, the average european generated just shy of 180 killers of package and waste in 2019 figures varied from each country. of course, as the de rate of recycling, in many places a big contributor to the waste heat comes from the food, the lever sector. but because this is the starting to take a proactive approach to the issue. here is the 6 doing your big bah. pizza boxes, beverage cubs, and other takeaway trash spill out of the way, spend in many cities. it's a huge burden on the environment because next to none of it can be recycled. 770 tons of such packaging is tossed that every day in germany alone. but some restaurants and stirrups have started providing customers with reusable alternatives. our regular customers love it. they pay us more deposit to get their food ready to serve and bring back the tims the next day. so when i and elsewhere, bullshit, containers like these can be bought for feed via an app. after you use customers have up to 14 days to return them. they have to account yet in the manufacturer guarantees 200 cycles meet moves when they get worn out, their recycled into a new material. here at a grocery store in cologne. and ab releases a bowl from a dispenser which customers can fill up for themselves, only the contents are weighed and paid for. after being returned to a collection point, the containers are picked up and taken to be cleaned the for now initiatives like these a voluntary but very safe to change. as of next year, restaurants and cafes in germany will be required to offer their customers reusable containers for food and beverages. mm hm. and how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories that you in word food program says that somalia faces the very real risk of famine in the common months drought conditions in the whole of africa have grown ever worse. over the past 3 years, millions of large storks of perished in somalia, 30 percent of how suits of last year, herds since meet 2021. even hardy heat, resistant carmel said, died. now some heard this i had in for some aaliyah's biggest city in the hopes off saving them. it is breakfast time at the bed a camel farm. on the outskirts of the somali capital, mogadishu, one or 2 animals, have found something to chew on, but they are all pretty hungry. all eyes are all the activity at the edge of the enclosure, in the heaps of freshly cut grass leaves, and 3 tis to morsels for the english, but also vital to their health. these nothing to graze on the cindy ground. a sun, abdomens of beer is the fund manager. a head, his size typically is more room to room, but space here is limited. there are a lot of the regularly your a couple are you face so many challenges when you bring candles to the city of gentle or not. and also how does the animals need to be trained to leave on the small area your cobra? so that requires a lot of patients in experience. the all the other challenges are finding enough food for the candles in the city and ensuring the are provided the things they would get from the does it see the nerve who were all high finally, the gate is opened year in the enclosure that is more than enough or if one that wasn't always the case when the head had to scrounge for food out on the open plains, just as camels here have done for centuries. where what dunkin, good or ruined usually by the hour, when the draught struck the countryside, where camels traditionally leave, there was nothing to graze on and a short fall offering. it forced us to move our animals here to the city. all. so largely, no, actually. so malia is one of the country's heat, particularly hard by climate change. persistent drought is slowly destroying the traditional grazing length. the vegetation is dying back, and water holes are drying out even camels, which can survive long stretches on v, belittle a dying from thirst or hunger. the despair filled there who st. ibrahim was seen in other head as is growing. by the day their flocks are shrinking. become old simply cannot find enough to eat in the bushland of the lot of billy region in eastern somalia on her fabric. we had us talk a lot about how to get our candles away from here and find new grazing areas because it hasn't rained in. so long drought is every way, if it gets worse and we can't be door camels, we'll have to abandon them and go to the city to civil children and ourselves. carry on the milan. many somalis are moving to the capital to escape the effects of climate change. mogadishu population has doubled, 2400000 people over the last 20 years. it was in that growing market that her son abdulla months, abriya recognized in opportunity soft alcala, in then cool naca. another reason we brought our camels to the c t is to provide fresh milk to the people who live in mogadishu and its surrounding areas. in the past, people have to go to law areas to get it. now we can deliver it freshly, milt right here in the ne, board annual about is our new obama on his new king is done every day in the bed, a camel from much to the displeasure of the young calls, but business takes precedence. brazil, i aria alyssa, romeo halligan, i love a dollar. we sell one liter of our com, no milk for $2.00 in cost or hallmark. i had also a tie. we normally produced 900 to 1000 liters of cum no milk every day of school. 9 unclean on by the lawyer. uneasy. normally if demand is high, we increase our new production to meet the needs of our customers and clean unless are commonly term said al, am all the other. the fresh milk is immediately loaded up and taken to the city. restaurants in hotels are important. customers come milk is very nutritious impact with vitamins making, popular, not just in somalia with business who me the better cpanel from can afford to buy concentrate feeds for the animals. it's an important way of making up for drought related food shortages being the camels to the city. his turned out to be a good move, but not everyone can afford to do the same. so instead was saying abraham was saying, plans to own with his camels in the hope of finding enough food in water elsewhere or from somalia. elder is closed without hurts to the west coast and the cumbia was wallace country in midland, africa there 2 people are struggling to adapt to climate change while drought ease a major problem. in many areas, people who leave any rivers may seem fortunate, but increasing me salt water is sipping into fresh water sources, which of course disrupts the natural ecosystem and even the ability to farm basic crops. now, one initiative is bringing together scientists and the local people to make a very big difference. oh, good. one, many things with every change as carefully noted, m u h week cardiac to clarity and, and to see not david davis collect environmental data from the aquatic on terrestrial echo systems in 6 locations along the gambia river right now. and record in the parameters we have here, which is dead. temperature, humidity, the wind speed, the wind chill, the air pressure, altitude, do point, and of in direction. the effects of climate change are causing hardship for many who lived near the river. for centuries, they help subsisted on small scale fishing and farming man groups, which will to salt out of the water made that possible, but duty to rise and sea level and extensive droughts. the reverse salt content got so high, it's killed many cheese. that's been disastrous for farmers like fat to mata barrow ha, car or data. we used to harvest rice here down, but now the yield is low. m will went among gross, we're healthy, big nowhere, no problem. so wondering why they are now dead. and our crops are not doing well when they, when they load up on it. not a lot of research has been done on bio diversity india environments in the gumbo. so that makes predict the impact climate change might hub on local ecosystems more difficult. that inspired 10 young scientists to launch the gems initiative jazz's aleck, learning program, their environmental measurement systems project. and it is the research project we have our quality environmental data along there were gamez understand this is not an yellow fluctuations happening, but what away is almost 1200 kilometers long. so the institute relies on the support of community based groups and locals like c double a journalist by trade double works as a citizen scientist, 20 kilometers from the capital banjo. my role as it citizen and the other collector is to collect data and then send to them every week and also to and some students along with me to also be gone. know how to collect data i decide to participate in this program because if you look at this area, you will see that it's already dead. here in the lower river division, the die back is extensive mangrove stamps thought an otherwise empty landscape. live in the coastline exposed. it's no longer possible to maintain fills through title irrigation from the river. the loss of the mangroves also means a loss of habitat and beating ground for fish and other aquatic life. the fresh water fish have moved further upstream. with the help of international n g use and volunteers. and so my not double hopes to restore the mongol forest but with a different, more robust variety, tungsten dead as required, regressing, she should really been able to know the salinity level of, of the water. and sec o'leary, i've been able to identify a dispossess of mangrove, re, half within our echoes houston day absolve. lot of sort a lag before wendy. i was not 3 salt into sunnyside, but now hence, demand growth are so tolerable. the absolved, let us or that has made a decrease in salinity level, which andy woman rice for too much a barrel. was been gwin rice here for 20 years. halston newly planted red. mangroves will give her crops a fighting chance. jo. well, we thank god in human growth along the river as they grow less salt will get through gardening, elaine, and while wounded since august 2021 more than 850000 mongrels having planted in the gumbo river delta in order to conserve the eco system, the symbiosis of scientific knowledge and local engagement, as bare and food quality water is indispensable, and is sasha to life as other people who walk hard to protect it. that is all for this edition of equal africa, it is time for me to be do farewell from complex. i and sandra tween odeo and i would definitely be seeing you again next week. and i just like to remind you that vase and other additions of a co africa can be viewed online, drop us a line, and tell us how you like to show or share some of your stories on projects that support the environment where you leave. for now i am chris alam, signing off from nigeria. ah ah. with our games on the melting ice reporter tracks down the arctics. major players really with them for russia is quite a, if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with all will you become a criminal, a ready know who's with pickers? paralyzing the tire societies? computers that i was sure you and governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work, how they can work for it, but how they can 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