Brought to you by d w t v. My name is sharon my money coming to you from kenyas capital all for nairobi and joining us is my colleague empty in nigeria hello and. Thank you sharon and hello everyone. Were coming to you from the live fasi park in Lagos Nigeria welcome sit back and relax for the next half hour theyre about to bring you the latest on environment topics from africa and europe this is what we have coming up today in tanzania donkeys are still being stolen and killed farmers an animals welfare come pain as our last then a shipyard in germany is building guess what believe functional green vote out of renewable materials and in senegal we meet women using a look pod to earn money and provide light to the habit. But first lets start the show here in they can have joined its neighbor rwanda in banning the sale of plastic bags and other Plastic Products but that doesnt mean an end to Plastic Waste in every round nairobi an estimated two hundred fifty tons of plastic are generated every day it can be recycled in different ways now and entrepreneurial in the kenyan capital has found a way of timing the west into fewer. Plastic litters this dump site. Every year canyons generates million tons of garbage. Its a modern children. Collecting waste helps and income. I come here to collect plastic with my friends. This job helps me pay for school fees. Everything. On an average day lucy and others collect about twelve tons of Plastic Waste from the site. A truck takes todays bounty to the alternative Energy System factory in thicker. Here the Plastic Waste will be processed into diesel founder kent opened this was still a scene june twenty seventeen. We decided to embark on a bio diesel project where. The proof for that became abundantly clear that unless we are able to create a value hole out of the waste we would not succeed with a project that led me to investigation all waste to Energy Technology bringing in which is where i found this particular technology. Every twelve tons of plastic the facility produces seven thousand liters of oil. Its a process that involves many steps. First the plastic is shredded. After that it gets heated to remove the moisture. Then the material is fed into a reactor where it goes through a process called thermal cracking the extreme heat changes the structure of the plastic and turns the solid material into a liquid. This oil has the same properties as industrial diesel oil. Getting customers to understand the complicated took knowledge was challenging at first. Our greatest challenge has been. In the marketing of. Time for people to be convince are oil is a substitute for. The diesel oil made from plastic can be used to power plants and industrial. Steel manufacture prime still uses it to heat the opens the synthetic diesel is more expensive than local Petroleum Oil factory owner indira patel is convinced its worth it using this. Is better. Because we know. And here read. It. Back to millings. And smokes. Though the price competition remains sheers kents remains committed to growing his business with millions of tonnes of plastic discarded every year he hopes his plan will work. Now we had to book in a fossil its one of the wild poorest countries still it is very active in fighting against Climate Change for example the country recently inaugurated west africas biggest solar power plant our reporter met up with book enough environment minister to get he staked on the current state of the environmentalists. How does Climate Change affect working in a fast. Enough. The other countries in the region we are also experiencing the effects of Climate Change. So is no exception there. Involves issues from soil degradation to flooding to pollution. Victims of climate disruption. That are going through months some of which measures you have to take to tackle Climate Change what about if i was on about this after. The world to look at. The situation in this field in the northern part of so is that desire to think asian is expanding and degradation is progressing quickly. Plus thats what drives population migration. So is engaged in revalue weighting these areas there are a number of projects in the northern part of quirky now seeking to maintain populations in areas with soil degradation. What do you expect from the International Community in this area. Were not responsible for climate disruption were suffering from and so were asking the International Community for Climate Justice and support for developing countries to deal with the consequences some tickets for this is a range of questions questions of adaptation and mitigation but also involving the transfer of technologies to cope with the facts of Climate Change today we need appropriate technologies but we also need to be able to adapt to the booking office. In europe work you know faster is often viewed as a pioneer in a green technology. How are you trying to make this transition in your country. As a possible sentiment as well put it i think it involves political commitments at the highest levels for us the president of talking afonso was very involved in the green transition to renewables and the green economy. Today no matter what they say but kenya still has the highest electricity costs in the region and now the rate of Energy Coverage in the country is still very low. You dont have many reserves energy. Sorceress but we have the sun and we think thats a great opportunity to put that if it means that the novel. The president has just inaugurated the largest solar center in western africa exactly. Im afraid. Its an opportunity were seeking to combine solar energy with thermal power we wont withdraw completely from thermal energy. Were going to combine the two but you can is going to. The idea is to provide the entire country with electricity and. Its with something good for them that. You step theres an important link between poverty and the environment. What do you mean that will move your practical resources in picking a fast so our Natural Resources the environment minister invoking a faster today is called the minister for the environment Green Business and Climate Change by choosing Green Business we want to manage Natural Resources in a rational and fair way to ensure that theyre better distribute it because were also thinking of future generations but kena first so is convinced that theres a lot left to explore in the environmental sector and that it represents a real opportunity for us because it allows us to create new jobs and generate income for our population. Populous so. That the. Rest. Saw farm commitments to Environmental Protection there all the best of that and now we move on to the wild over boating sail boats and yachts that might make you think of open oceans and nato but in fact they are real and very mental plane utas that made of lousy of glass fiber which is rain forest plastic thats uses lots of oil and energy to manufacture a ship build that investment germany has found a way to make more environmentally friendly boats empty knows more. Yes he claims that his boat made of ninety percent renewable materials like hemp uncork im a bit skeptical that these boats are as durable and save as the conventional ones but lets go take a look at these both. The materials being cut here in the green boats workshop come mostly from nature things like cork and paper. The boats protective coating gets the finishing soak in a resin linseed oil mixture although some mineral oil is still indispensable for now. As soon as its hardened its environmentally friendly you could even eat off it but before the individual components have reacted with each other i wouldnt recommend that. More than seventy five percent of this lightweight one person sailing dinghy consists of renewable materials the top is made of flax plant fiber also used in linen clothing. Predicts diamond tells us that flax is lightweight and sturdy just like the way or of paper honeycomb beneath it are good beautiful and. Its moistens and then stretched so that it really gets this honeycomb structure sort of. A piece of paper honeycomb is always used where something has to be both extremely lightweight and super rigid basically only in sport boats the the associated risk is that if its damaged and water can get in and. Thats why the boats gunwales are insulated with water resistant cork the green bent is whole is made entirely of course. Its seven and a half metres long the yards largest model to date. For the past two seasons its been put through its paces like here on Lake Constance in south germany as sixty eight thousand euros its somewhat more expensive than boats but with traditional materials but then its environmentally friendly and the outer hole is just as durable as standard fiberglass reinforced plastic holds. Its an interest shared by researchers in the biological Materials Group that will show to blame the university of applied sciences. This whole segment is undergoing a stress test it shows that the composite made of flex and cork is extremely durable. On this and thats why you have a dust even under tremendous pressure as ships hole would not fracture it would only deformed some i did you can see part of it knocks it out when we test materials such as flax hempel work enough for bending we find that in terms of density they have better characteristics than Fiberglass Composites when it comes to defamation or load bearing. On time. But for that you need special breeds of plants material like this flax with extremely sturdy fibers. You can even make skis with the rest i found as i went there and then they spring back into shape really well on the. Green boats theyre convinced the future belongs to natural fibers even if it makes diamonds still relies on a mineral oil component for the top coat rather than purely organic resin. Those kinds of resins are very hard to work with theyre very sensitive to moisture and theyre not really very durable. And that means theres a danger that when a boats been in the water for a number of years big could start to rot. Theres not a trace of rock on the green and its set to sail the coming season as well it will be one of a kind for much longer clearly plans to build five more of this model in twenty eighteen. And now. Doing your bit this time were in west africa to be precise in Senegal Community there relatively little electricity plenty of sun in other parts of africa people here have the idea of harvesting the solar energy to provide household with small amounts of electricity and thanks to the Financial Dividend some communities yes indeed have made. A friendly business out of the venture lets take a look at how the. Lack of electricity is a major problem in senegal. Less than a third of the rural population has access to it. And the women of the young have come up with a solution. Solar energy kids. Almost one hundred people in the region have already bought solar lamps. And those who cant afford them can get micro credit or pay in installments. Some villages got together to buy a fridge. And now make a living selling cold drinks. Others bought Solar Energy Kits so the children can do their homework in the evening. New sources of income better education thanks to green energy. Do you like that. 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 story. Many areas in africa are drying out in the style region deserts and courting at an alarming rate on the communities and ideas one of the nations most at risk we never know if its not on state of the front line of the certification experts say the sahara is moving southward i dont know alarming rate where in the village of gandhi in the far north of nigeria its not far from the Sahara Desert is advancing south wards at an estimated six hundred metres per year. Its already started encroaching on gandhi and surrounding. This village is home today here the farmer has spent his entire life here he tells us hes worried about the growing threat from the deserts in the north and his annual harvest is dwindling year after year. Has sunk. Just a politically lecia four hundred. Bucks how many of you think you get. A president in the. Twenty five percent over the last years. I mean its more than this and you are just certain that what. You can be able to. Say one time you would moan and visit it is going to show you how that is important and when. At least it is more than. Three kilometers and really. The farm hires herdsman to graze their cattle on his land so he can collect them and well look at life and hes doing more to ward of the deserts. We in the new earth might have lenten. Pounds just to reduce the level of quarter. And use you see all these new interviews applicable. Nigeria has been fighting does it cation for decades the government has a special budget for forestry programmes and its planted two hundred kilometers of tree barriers in recent years. Every year we ensure that plantation takes place throughout the year we dont just plant trees during the rainy season even during the dry season we need to get trees the cluster of trees are planted at designated locations to hold back the days that weans that carry the sand but residents of many Rural Communities continue to cut down trees to use the wood for charcoal burning. Desertification displaces communities and threatens peoples livelihoods its estimated that nigeria loses more than five billion dollars a year as a result. More Sustainable Solutions are needed to successfully hold back the advancing desert and the destruction of causes. And now on to a more disheartening topic poaching in africa but not the well known illegal trade in ivory or rhino horn another species surprisingly threatened by thieves and hunters donkeys why is that so shon. Well duncan skin is very often used in asia for example to produce medical and Beauty Products demand is huge so no wonder that some farmers are losing that donkey is. And thats well one of them a Welfare Organization comes in to help the donkey is their own that. This is my papaw in central tens and. Hundreds of donkeys have been stolen here in the past month the mona family has also lost to they found the remains a few kilometers away and the bushes poisoned and skinned. Minute outside im up and im a big donkey skinned the french between one hundred fifty and one hundred eighty thousand shillings thats up to eighteen dollars so donkeys are being stolen or killed. This is a big problem for the whole community here yeah i mean. Dont these are desert animals perfectly adapted to the hot dry climate and their use has a little impact on the environment as pack animals theyre very valuable to farming communities simon pope is from the u. K. Based animal Welfare Organization the donkey sanctuary the british activist is investigating and recording whats happening here donkeys he says are disappearing across africa many countries fear that entire populations could be lost within just a few years. We know we hear the terms in the end dont you saw ending up in the other two are in ten you know they still dont hes disappearing from around here. The reason for the rapid decline is. The traditional chinese medicine made of substances extracted from donkey hides. A kilo of it sells for over three hundred euros. Each zero is an ingredient in a wide range of Beauty Products its said to stop wrinkles for example. Africas dont keep population is a key target for the skin trade thousands of animals are slaughtered there every day together with partners in tanzania and other african countries the donkey sanctuary wants to put an end to the gruesome business so really what were trying to do is try to get the case studies fellow stories about the vigils weve been affected as a way of putting pressure on not just on the governments but on. The good people internationally to be able to one create better both protect you know actually to hold detroit. Many farmers are now trying to sell their donkeys even below market value as they fear losing the animals to gangs of thieves and women in particular suffer when their animals are stolen they often depend on donkeys to fetch water or transport goods to market. In an attempt to protect its animals and farmers tens in the eye has finally banned the trade but experts say thats just driven it underground and that its now organized by the same networks that smuggle rhino horn and ivory. Pope is heading to the site of a donkey avatar not far from doe doma it supposedly had to close down after the ban. These images were taken earlier this year at the facility was still up and running. Over four years up to five hundred donkeys were slaughtered here every day the offer was buried a local animal Welfare Organization says that poisoned the soil and polluted groundwater in the area. But when he arrives this time pope isnt allowed out of the car is the site still active after all. But weve arrived here i think imagining that this was going to be a pretty much abandoned but it was something. With a door we can just push and go in and i put it instead what we found is it is still go armed guards on the on the gate. The officials of the spoken to here are extremely nervous. They are very very. Reticent to allow us to go in the basement always. So if you are kind of out of all those different places together. Pretty. Despondent if you like this something is going on in there which shouldnt be going on involving dont. You know who now tells us a middle man made him an offer for the families to remain in donkeys he was willing to pay eighty dollars although the trade is officially banned in tanzania donk