Some of the ideas and concepts people have come up with to help save the environment im really looking forward to the was in south africa a wonderful species that needs protecting but the weakest link to more install besides that. And making clones out of fish screens. And we also show you how design of so many. Toys in just something minutes for. Every year so if africa sees a migration of was eastern coast and he was probably know from on to take a wee cobbs last year so the largest number was on record off the coast of cape town scientists cool savation ists and tourists continue to learn more about these giant on emails we went along to find out more. At certain times of the year special visitors can be supported in what is a 1st day in south africa. Where the huge mom was migrate from and talked to the woman waters off the coast of mozambique to come and not. Very good after a few months to return some of the long the same route and researches have seen an encouraging rise in numbers. Of the great conservation Success Stories since the end of whaling some people stop questioning commercially in the late seventys around Southern Africa the population have been increasing rebounding. Thank you and we think getting up to what the carrying capacity of the ecosystem the population of the west and the east coast of africa have been increasing probably close to 10 percent. The research is used a hydrophone an underwater microphone to record words which the team will analyze later the waters around cape town provided the conditions to study the behavior of the way this. Lake. Had a lot of feeding off the west coast of south africa which quite unusual that ill let you. Are feeding in the antarctic and we picking up a lot of juvenile whales this year 202019 hanging around the South African coast that are feeding right in show in falls by a really interesting account fast it gives us an opportunity to study the feeding behavior and making whereas communicate using up there are 2 for conversations from clicks to whistles and of course songs each is associated with a specific type of behavior. Comparing recorded here recorded in africa gives researches insights into which populations move through different areas so we were quite surprised when we 1st Record Company in in force because i had a friend actually there to look at dolphin distribution because hamburg was only strongly associated with making behavior of these animals and around africa making happens at the tropical areas so rather equitorial which africa and of mozambique on the east coast around cape town animals should just be migrating past although we are aware of animals and some amount feeding as well. While commercial whaling was banned several decades ago the animals to face a number of threats including being struck by ships 100 temperament in 29 to several waves dont enforce after becoming trapped in fishing gear images of them being towed to. Appeared in media or on the globe. In a very short amount of time there were a number of wells that were entangled in the false bay area and this was exposed by ocean conservationist and very passionate ocean guys in the area and this caused a groundswell of public cry they went all the way to the top of the governments hands and this caused the fishery to be shut out really quickly a temporary ban on octopus fishing was recently lifted but a number of sticks have to precautions went to do to prevent any further entanglement in the tropics. Further up the coast this right where the curve is enjoying some time with its mother to the delight of cuz everyone. About 3 how to drive from kept town when watching the trucks about how for me them to harvest year. While tourism is is big all over the world but in south africa a critically important. Huge attraction for people with southern right whales is an amazing world to watch because they spend a lot of time on the Water Surface i often think its the best way to watch having been hunted to the brink of extinction this was have made an astounding recovery through the efforts of scientists and conservationists they can see most suffering through the waters around cape town and throughout the world. While amazing did you know that was actually need. Our next piece is about fish still and more specifically this it might sound like but it can actually be a useful resource a French Company letter from fish and hes a big hes another installment from our series doing. Usually fish skins are a waste product so they cost next to nothing. Some companies in africa turning them into just kit shoes and homs. And french time to reproduce this letter for luxury accessories like card holders and handbags. And all measures which used to transform fish skin into leather because today its a way studies thrown away by the Food Industry and the catering industry i wanted to question on the advantage of fish skin once its been the scale it is that it has a unique texture its one of the strongest the most durable leathers in the world and very supple. The tunnel re removes the remaining flesh and cleans the skins and a rotating drum. Just psyching an eco friendly town instead of to dry. Then most skins are softened and died with various colors. And now the company is processing around 2000 skins per month. 2 skins that would otherwise just be useless waste. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your page. We share your story. Whether there was a blight on trucks in most places hope to be changed anything new in bed long before the rabbit starts to fall apart one becomes an issue but he actually and its seen me here a book might seem real and did you write sandra and thats why recycling tiles has Great Potential there are so many things that can be made from them big all small even for and see for yourself what a german designer has managed to create. Is this the end of the road for these tires that trade has worn down and theyre no longer safe for driving but what others throw away is a valuable commodity for one Company Based in eastern germany. Is particularly interested in large truck tires take of it i havent as larry tye as consist of rubber Natural Rubber and wire bio wire right here in the tread and along the rim and those are 2 components that can be separated easily. In the time manufacturing process heat is used to compress the rubber making the tires firm and heavy. So special machines a needed to shred them. They use as much energy annually as 1200 households. Danny gets the tires for nothing but his recycling company near speak 0 does have to pick them up from carriages and tie dealers. And because the truck tires the so bulky only 100. 00 actually fit into a container. I do have. To keep the driving in the transport costs down we try to source our tires locally but as we produce 20000 tons of rubber granular it from the truck tires alone we sometimes have to travel hundreds of kilometers to get enough of the offensive. But in base design a catch of an owner doesnt have quite as far to go she gets her old material for free from bicycle shops in her neighborhood. A lot of her products are made from in achieves. As. Right i look for inner tubes with specific wits because i need them for various products happy and full of and i tend to focus on what i call prized pieces which might be in past or patched up or have a manufacturers branding. I pick out the most interesting ones 1st ones the party. As well as expensive handbags and other one off creations catcher vanno also makes wallets and key fobs that sell a prices similar to those of commercial products. In comparison to other materials the designers says that rubber has many advantages. As a child i mean much you know its one great thing about this material is the supply is endless theres more than you could ever need its also waterproof its terrible its completely begun and for many its a Good Alternative to leather you know but the tire recycling company is no longer any sign of the original form. The shredded rubber is molded into everything from small mats to large sheets weighing 80 kilos. Is emitted into the compressed with a force of a 1000 tons so theyre pretty tough. We didnt driven over them with tanks weve developed a new process that allows us to use the maximum amount of recycled rubber some products integrate natural couch work or other substances. But we dont we only use old timers. Customers like the recycled rubber when used as flooring the sheets dont have to be glued down and they can stand up to the elements. But building fell so theyre being used to protect the granite slabs in the courtyard. Once restoration work is finished the mats can be cleaned and used elsewhere. This robust material last for years. Our next report is about repurposing Something Else thats often found on garbage glass bottles yes indeed did you know that glass is one of the longest lasting mind made materials we have it seems a shame to see so much of it simply discard it but on the Canyon Island of lamu at least some bottles found on the beach im now being put to good use lets go see if. Oh. No only the fabulous plastic different players to do yes. Its ocean clean up the here. In kenya the children might have made a game out of it but for omar ali this is more of a possible conservation mission. For swimming with. 1520 minutes we. Have been pretty good friday every friday its nice to get it when they are you know a money game were doing here. But it goes a long way you know i think. Most of. Them while they are. Like many african countries kenya is grappling with a gut beach problem there are no public dust bins for people to dump their trash and theres no garbage collection center. With the trash piling up people have had to take matters into their own hands collection and recycling initiatives like omars help to plug up. He told us we can go to the beach to swim after collecting trash i connected. To. 80 years ago the extent of ocean pollution really hits home form our studies have shown that the ocean is the 2nd most polluted in the world this affects both of them are a knife and the human food supply here in laos amar decided to start doing his bit to protect the ocean. You want to be bored by the sea shore but one time to board. You know but when i came out of the boat. Bad bad bad. Lusty everywhere and there was kids around you know and there was a lot of there was no doing anything and also maybe a good idea what a brick miss you can come up on i repeat you know you just want to be area to have kids playing you know. How it started. But omar didnt just collect the boxes he used them to build and necessary school. This is the school now or the board will hear. About. The problem is when we get the trash out of the city we bring into the lab there was nobody to pick them out but ease a conservative island and some locals were not happy when omar opened the school. No one has found this coming year. So the one they want to move is a move to. Be the holes who would be our why we see everything but my thought about. The whiskey and the wine used to getting the book for the community important. And weve time the locals accepted that this is when we acquired it bunches really do belong in schools. And strong my child is running. He joined the school in 2018 i feel good when i see kids having a chance to study and besides studying we also learn about a b. Environment and the awards and students dont have to pay to attend on our school this means that support from volunteers has proved vital in keeping the school going. Im so thankful now that everybody be aware and come and try to. Be part of people 2. I dont know our school these youngsters are learning vital lessons not only in the classroom but out in there where the ocean needs their help. Now here in my country not everyone is connected to the electricity grid and that means people especially those in the rural areas are often forced to use other sources of power including vivo what is actually are not sustainable but a crowd investing platform in europe is looking to find and we knew about Energy Projects here. Its hard to miss the soul the men agreed on the edge of the village bright and shiny in the sun this is from a dumpster 3 hours from lagos by car its isolated location was more of a factor for installing the solar panels than environmental reasons connecting the village to the National Park grid was not considered worth the effort many people here make a living the agriculture some in green milling operations like richard apparently she previously used a few car generator to run her driving machine just now the park comes from the south. Yesterday i bought 500 now whats in your pocket now we can leave the lights on at this light in palm of my 1000000 but it was to situation was different when we used not you know not all home down by new home and you know. Theyre skeptical the 1st many here have since switched to green energy. Over 500. 00 households now get their part from the solar grid. That means suns fewer c o 2 emissions according to the Nigerian Company reprotect so look some funding for the project came from a German Government agency. In any business attorneys and something that is really really viable for nigeria to look into you know because. Like you know niger actually has about 55 percent of its population without access so and we know that its not Cost Effective to extend the grid to these areas so 1. 00 of the best with these by deploying in the woods through these locations. The project was also bolstered by german Company Based in frankfurt. A crowd investing platform called better vest raised 220000 euros for the celebrity greats in nigeria and c. E. O. Marilyn hape says the company is paying customers who want to invest in construction ecologically projects in other parts of the world our future market is africa because this market is crawling so tremendously and the amount of people there that need it for city is the highest all over the world. So there is much money needed there is a much potential and also as mentioned the Interest Rates there are very very high so they need cheaper money and they need especially any ringback way of financing there is no solution there are no bangs there of finance those smaller projects all the crowd funding platforms at the moment the solutions to that money can come to african small and Medium Sized Enterprises to create a tricity into that. But there is also a dog charge of energy being. Manufactured today only last 20 years and then they have to be disposed off and the lead acid batteries needed to store electricity that can cause serious sure pollution. But for now the mini grid has been pleased the lives of many here boosting their businesses and improving the breed. For margie we have not so very remote we do not want to have our drive from the capital tunis i mean is that theyre both National Park about 100 years ago wow gazelles used to live here but today theyve completely disappeared from the landscape now an initiative launched my spanish on the 13th as we introduced one full of them into the world they hope the irony was we will produce in the another true hubby tent and improve the eco system the project wont just be good for nature it should also help to boost tourism. Says yes members of an endangered species that had all but disappeared in tunisia are now back to roam free again in their natural habitat. Around 30 outlets because those are gradually being released in egypt bell says National Park the territory they inhabit covers approximately 20 square kilometers. Their resettlement in the northern Atlas Mountains is a joint project between spanish scientists and the tunisian or dorothys forehead research. A touching moment when we bring these animals here in 2017 they were much different now here and insects in such a way i feel that they are they are not my babies but they are my pets you say and i know they will be very much happy in nature although i want to be able to take care of them so that is the laying saying why i really so so excited and my emotion is so big. The animals were brought over to the region from spain just a few years ago with the hope of them settling into the environment and producing offspring. The projects staff set up expansive enclosures in the future reserve where they would initially be protected and cared for. Population has since doubled since local ranger i meant ben rumah. His 1st job of the day is to look in on the shy animals. Club him to check on the animals on the pens every morning ive been doing this kind of work for years now i know how to treat them i know these animals very well and i even think about them on my days off and im not kidding and ive come to love these helpless because else. How do you think. The atlas because l. Is native to north africa but lon clearance poaches under changing ecosystem have put their survival in jeopardy Say International conservation groups. The tunisians want to see the gazelles inhabit the region once again on the chances of the Reintroduction Program succeeding are high says the director of the National Park. The animals feel at home in these High Altitude climbs. Downtown weve also made efforts to raise awareness about the animals among people who live around the National Park. And now of course we hope that theyll be safe here and the 10 years from now there will be a big herd of these because elsie in this reserve. Is the population of the outlets because there has been growing so have visitor numbers to the nature reserve. Theres a lot of interest among tunisians in the story behind the reintroduction of venture. For them the animals are also a cultural icon of their region. Were going to protect them and do everything we can to ensure that they settle in successfully thats why we also set up a Pilot Research project to monitor the gazelles delish the data we gather on the animals will allow us to track their movements and help us to locate them so. This type of gazelle tends to roam an inaccessible mountain terrain so the animals off fitted with transmitters conservationists can then determine where they spend most of their time and above all how many of them survive. If all goes well there are another 50 gazelles in the enclosure waiting to be reintroduced into the wild. Well that brings us to the end of these edition of equal africa thank you for joining us and of course well be looking forward to seeing you once again next week i am stunned at you know you here in uganda. And its goodbye from me to me in lagos nigeria. If you want to know more if you have ideas of your own and look us up on our social media platforms and write us a message so you make sure to tune in for the next edition. Dum. Dum. Dum. W. s crime fighters are back again a good look out for those most successful radio drama series continues from only because those are Available Online in the course you can share and discuss on w. Africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. To crime fighter to mean no. How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when will all of this. Just 3 of the topics covered in the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like. 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