To you by d w t v. My name is sound money coming to you from kenyas capital often nairobi and joining us is my colleague m. P. Syria hello and. Thank you sharon and hello everyone. Become its you from the loofah city park in Lagos Nigeria welcome sit back and relax for the next half. Hour bring you the latest on the environment topics from africa and europe this is what we have coming up today in tanzania donkeys are still being stolen and killed far more than on the most well fed come pain as all of that then a shipyard in germany is building guess what a fully functional green boat out of renewable materials and incentive go we meet women using yes a look pod to earn money and provide light to the habit. But first lets stop the show here in nairobi. Kenya has 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 an entrepreneur in the kenyan capital has found a way of timing the west into fuel. Plastic litters this dump site. Every year kenyans generates four 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 followed. 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 facility in june twenty seventh. We decided to embark on a bio diesel project where. The proof of concept it 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 of waste to Energy Technology bringing in britain 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 oil in. Time for people to be convinced are oil is a substitute for. The diesel oil made from plastic can be used to power plants and industrial further and still manufacture prime still uses it to heat the over. The synthetic diesel is more expensive than local Petroleum Oil but factory owner indira patel is convinced its worth it using this. Is better he said because we do not take in here. Housing. Back to buildings. And smokes. Though the price competition remains shears 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 fall a power plant our reporter met up with a book in a 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 to prevent some of the measures you have to take to tackle Climate Change is all about this after. The war to look at. The situation in this field in the northern part of so is that cation is expanding and degradation is progressing quickly. Plus thats what drives population migration looking afonso is engaged in revalue weighting these areas there are a number of projects in the northern part of book ina 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 to 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 burke 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 opposed to say members will put it i think it involves political commitments at the highest levels for us the president of talking afonso is 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 our great Energy Coverage in the country is still very low. You dont have many energy read. 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 this. Is a person opportunity were seeking to combine solar energy with thermal power we wont withdraw completely from thermal energy. Were going to combine the two. Guys with 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 by 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 enough 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. Population. While the rest. So fond commitments to Environmental Protection there all the best with that and then we move on to the wild boating sailboats might make you think of open oceans and nato but in fact they are real environmentalists. 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 environment 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 safe as the conventional ones but lets go take a look at these boats. 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. 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 coat 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. Or a good view of. 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 the water can get in and. Thats why the boats gunwales are insulated with water resistant cork the green bantys hole is made entirely of course. Its seven and a half meters 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 all would not fracture it would only deformed someone to do some cotton and that knocks it out and 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. But for that you need special breeds of plants like this flax with extremely sturdy fibers. You can even make skis with less diophantus when they are and then they spring back into shape really well on the. Green votes 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 wont be one of a kind for much longer please diamond 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. 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 nigeria is one of the nations most at risk when you 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 its an estimated six hundred meters but. Its already started encroaching on gandhi and surrounding. This village is home to day 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. Just a politically lets see four hundred. Next how many of you think youre. Absolutely. Under. 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. 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 us where most affluent ten. Pounds just to reduce really never occurred to me. And you see you see all these new interviews applet where nigeria has been fighting the cation for decades the government has a special budget for Forestry Programs 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 have 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 dont get skin is very often used in asia for example to produce medical and Beauty Products demand is huge so no wonder that some farmers i 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 upwind im a big donkey skinned the french between one hundred fifty and one hundred eighty thousand shillings thats up to eighty dollars so donkeys are being stolen or killed. This is a big problem for the whole community here me. Dont please our desert animals perfectly adapted to the hot dry climate and their use has 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 term than in dont use our 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 that dont the sanctuary wants to put an end to the gruesome business so really what were trying to do is try to get the case studies tell us stories about individuals whove been affected as a way of putting pressure on not just on the governments but on. The good people internationally to be able to and create better to 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 over take it or 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 and he has finally banned the trade but experts say thats just driven it underground and that its no organized by the same networks that smuggle rhino horn and ivory. Pope is heading to the site of a donkey avatar not far from douma 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 for 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 the door we can just push and go and i put instead what we found is it is still go on gods on the on the gate. The officials of the spoken to here are extremely nervous. Very very. Reticent to allow us to go in a place he told us recall. 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 familys two remaining donkeys he was willing to pay eighty dollars although the trade is officially banned in tanzania donkeys are still disappearing here in large numbers. And i hope the advocacy groups in the government will continue with initiatives to ban the trade in the country because otherwise we face more losses and soon we wont be able to do our work here. The locals are starting to build fenced compounds to keep the animals safe at night but if the ban is not strictly enforced and the sector remains unregulated donkeys will continue to be slaughtered in the bush and exported illegally in the long run making life worse for thousands of families. How cruel and unnecessary i hope this terrible trade will be ended soon and so africa and you know p. And johnny draws to a close here today i do hope youve enjoyed the show as you again next time and buy from nairobi. Morning you can check out our websites to be showing on your screen and you can have your say on our social media pages especially being involved in a mental activity we can tell your story. By by from Lagos Nigeria. Mob. Moved. On. The boat. The boat. The body. The bit. Odd. Life in the arctic it is hard to draw the line. 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