So excited for this weeks episode of africa well fos report comes from western africa to be more precise from ghana but fast lets take a look at other stories coming up over the next. We look at ought to help conservationists are trying to set great ground trying to. Help people. Are rebuilding their lives devastated. And a South African artist. Called just weve just. Inoculating see sounds weird doesnt it but with this method farmers can minimize the use of even organic fertilizer it is one of the several new eco friendly techniques that film was you know the gun running from mohamed and hes the train has explained the complex science in simple tums smallholder farmers who called taken up the courses say they yield have improved significantly. And. Given the northwestern part of ghana farmers mainly cultivate soybeans. Out in the field full hectares of land. 4 years ago for diluted part in a Training Session for Sustainable Agriculture since then have crop hilton the profits have increased. In addition. To farming she has recently established a 2nd business she sells traditional textiles in the communities around her village langar. I used to have 2 or 3 backspace will seize i said or using the know its 7 to 8 bags but. Theyre not for long should learn how to inoculate seeds during a Training Session conducted by the local Company Green e. T. F. Today the farmers in gingerly cool also taking part. The method is simple the seeds are stirred together with water and sugar before dried weasel biaggi had bacteria added bacteria keep past the way each cow pct must be more east. Once dried the inoculated seeds must be sown at precise distances to one another thanks to this method the farmers no longer have to use chemical pesticides. More than 500 farmers have been trained by the company so far. Mohammads to cheap who came up with the idea for the Training Sessions he actually studied business but soon switched to agricultural philosophy. His team instructs the farmers and how to run their farms in more sustainable ways such as by using the plant cremains for compost or bio coal. The fabrics of kidnaped plants for example i especially well suited to enriching depleted soils. And in a war so how produced by were just very good soil progress ill Properties Like you know what or where to go bicycling and its me different. So you got a point i mean it would have been there. Are you know that were going to do. Most farmers in ghana used chemical fertilizers and pesticides which has worsened the quality of the soil this gate eco premier said shibu a reason to search full term it serves the farmers can even test the make up of the soil if needed the samples that been sent to the companys own lab. Although the Training Sessions for the small scale farmers are free the sole analysis const between one and 30 euros depending on what exactly is being tested for farmers its worth it because they learn exactly what their soil needs and prevents the use of sex if you know anything made this preventing that lets you know some of these i said this and i doubt what our bodies run off into surface whatever these core simple lucene says at the social fair what are for and in mass and i dont even know any sense since having his soul tested family just shot conlon rarely uses fertilizers anymore before the analysis he found exclusively soy beans but now that changed. 3 years ago when i started self testing with. I produced mace asked their commander to me and then my results doubled i got 70 bucks more. From us i always got to fold and this has helped me to viewable to our. Farm tractor which is helping my production. Joshua conlon expanded from small to medium scale agriculture for the isnt like here yet but shes well on her way. From gunnoe we cross the continent to kenya to check out a project that is full of bugs well some bogs anyone a Conservation Organization has made it eats nishan to fight for the survival of one species in particular. Thats right sandra like so many of our feathered friends crowned cranes i would risk due to habitat loss and poaching now Community Based n. G. O. S informing the farmers children and others about the importance of protecting these majestic creatures. Wherever the currents go George Newman is not far behind he leaves nearly called bull side in Central Kenya the local conservationists hes passionate about birds and founded the cranes Conservation Volunteers organization he regularly visits their habitats to monitor their activities greens i need to be with him if we see this crazy allow is an indicator that can help hell be with plants you know in and also that calls for protection that we have something here that the food and that naturally greens can attest to that the area is home to the largest population of gray crowned cranes in the whole country over the years crane populations have suffered a major decline as a result of human related to vittie like trampling of chicks by dr stalk poaching from it both at the local and provincial level and collection of eggs but the cranes also disturb the farmers living around the lake were told me how we. Get to reinvigorate and i guess you know how did we could exist with the corn cranes on our farm the very destructive when we plant crops they take the seeds you get 200 more you know medium and when i grow some i sure like the piece they peel and him do not have to be from the who farm. Only 2 or what have you. Reducing conflicts between humans and wildlife is the main work of georgia dome. And his team. With farmers the conservation is to explains that cranes also have a positive impact on the crops because they eat worms which normally destroy the young plants when harvest time approaches then courage them to guard their fans to protect their crops even convinced porches to become volunteers when his team. When i fish at the lake i take care of the crown of grains in accordance with the government regulations. All manner you girl but. What i hear the birds attract tourists and when they come here they have to develop the area and create bursaries for schoolchildren so i thought id be. So much. Why not do it there. The volunteer conservationist also visit schools in the region twice a month this time hes at the market wrecker Primary School where 3 children received this masteries all together 32. 00 best stories have been provided by the Development Fund the lake also became a protected area last year the queens breeder tits show from july to february just before the breeding period starts the quince Conservation Volunteers try to coordinate with farmers to democrat important breeding areas by the lake sometimes community to cooperate and other times they dont because when. We tell them to exclude the livestock during the great season and during their dry season their past i would say the lake it is minimal so thats to lead them to bring their cattle inside despite this how those judge newman works tirelessly to mediate with locals and keep the area protected for the benefit of the grey concrete ends and the local population who will benefit. From the growing season. You know. Its terrible the risk of dying out because of the loss of their habitat its important to preserve natural habitat logical balance in tanzania a Nongovernmental Organization is trying to do just that lets move the people on the archipelago. Is in high demand its used in Food Pharmaceuticals and Industrial Products and its one of the sands of ours biggest exports but its under threat it employs over 25000 people 80 percent of those are women. Rising Ocean Temperatures brought on by Climate Change are making it harder for farmers to maintain their seaweed. Thats driving them to use unSustainable Practices damaging the fragile marine habitats on which their livelihoods depend. Farming has been getting me down recently. Very little and were making less money than before. But when farmed well seaweed can boost ocean health by improving Water Quality and providing protection for fish. The Nature Conservancy is an ngo that provides training for farmers on Sustainable Practices bemis to increase seaweed healed while helping the marine ecosystem and the women who depend on it. It includes planting seaweed on ropes so it grows at the best steps to maximize nutrient intake. The project will select some of the farmers to become mentors to others enabling coastal communities to help themselves become more resilient to Climate Change. And how about you if youre also doing your tell us about visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your story. Now thats a very practical project to encourage people to best practices thats accountant really takes a different approach to getting his message across a South African port an artist wants his extraordinary sculptures to help protect the environment his works made from. History trophy. Cards aside to do all the cat to prevent harm to nature. This is an unusual amount and it also has a message. 78 year old South African sculptor professor unposed pretty calm truly has created 45. 00 bones sculptures called the exhibition. Emesis way any in the local zulu language translated into english this means return to the source for the artist things have never seemed more urgent. We have to prepare ourselves for more. Simply it up because we have disrespected nature. We have around. All the sleeps. We have introduced the issues of. Where people live to hunt. Kill them so for them to get their heads to him in their own. Houses so the whole issues of. The other ones that lead us to where we are now and yet is that African People our poll. Tells us about how we must. Surely has been working for more than 40 years with material he scavengers from scrap yards. With bare bones that he collects from nature reserves. Coronavirus Restrictions Mean the public has not yet been able to visit his artworks but every sculpture can be viewed online together with supplementary audioboo didnt truly record it especially for each piece. What this exhibition has done its challenge what curating is because for a long time with creating has been traditional has been going to space. And particular. Has challenged and the art industry even how we speak of art. d and how art speaks to worst. Critic and truly is also a traditional healer. Before working on the bones he speaks to the dead animals to appease their spirits. Here. Down the bow. In order to divine the stage or the nation. The state of the universe the state of our environment this data on Mental Health is to what exactly happens. Dance for visitors to decide by themselves whether looking at sculptures virtually all physically during a plan to or the exhibition through several South African museums should yield for 2021. Wow i would definitely take your virtual tour right after the show but you cant really say we do not respect nature many people see that as a reason why there are more and more disasters such as our source. Africa in march 1900 causing great suffering and devastation in our next report we need people in the region around zimbabwes 2 money Money National park who are involved in reconstruction and Environmental Protection in the wake of that storm. 18 year old tackled sewer to vassie as home but it remains devastated she was here when cyclon eat i tore through this in march 2019 several of the friends were killed in the disaster over 200 houses were destroyed even now talk with sue i can barely come to terms with the power of the storm. This place. A wonderful place they were lots of things. But. In a moment if it was. It i also caused a series of landslides in the nearby to money Money National park. To money money is home to 200 different species of birds. So there are a side effect a rally has been working for nature Conservation Organization birdlife zimbabwe here since 2013 now reconstruction is also on his list of tasks. If i read or astonishingly something key now we have seen what is happening around this world with deliberate set up which must be minimally which is this is the ideal city area. Its an area that also needs restoration as well. So that. Development will not also called you to be degraded. The environmentalist and his organization are active in 6 villages. In one of the tree nurseries villages like john john g. Have joined together with others to grow new trees we sit down to their community to really build tate our our area by. Branding is. Different in the species so we started by proving. Some. Rather bored kids so that we nest them in while i miss that. Sucker riaa is worried that invasive plants species might take root and spread in the areas destroyed by either by native plants would be of much more use to the environment and the people here. Is an inch 2 in your species of trees was there used to already be local conditions this served and also the rain for i mean that in the used to save the these trees have to be replanted to increase their winter but its. John john she has prepared lifes advice into practice innocent garden. Alongside his millis and maize crops he now also keeps a fruit or change. They never. Did realize that an orchard is one of the many sources of income generation for me. When i was 4 i started this i used to only grow maize and vegetables getting it was that i later grew to appreciate the orchard. Different trees not rush the soil and im spoilt for choice. Because a some fruit trees are growing others are already bearing fruit. But if theyre somewhere that i gotta. Janji sells his priests in neighboring villages and that ensures him an income even during the coronavirus crisis. Till the recife worker riot is happy with the orchards abandoned because its also important for the whole area. By. Different authors they also supply food to many organisms so just where its safe. Insect populations will also ravaged by psycho die most of the 50 beehives here were destroyed. Traditionally families here hollowed out tree trunks to service hives. Now bird life zimbabwe is helping them to make the hives out of timber wood as a way of protecting the remaining tree stocks. We have the fruit trees in the village to go in and spread the pollen and this is good for our harvests because eventually well have more fruit and when people realize that there are bees in this area they wont chop the trees down because theyre frightened of bees also provide some form of security. In. 600. 00 hives are planned the environmentalists believe that if people have a sufficient source of income they will be more likely to protect the environment. I wish everybody there all the best in meeting such great challenges they will certainly help nature along but its incredible how nature can regenerate with or without human assistance yes you need a new year to sometimes that really is true take for example an abandoned military base in the Czech Republic just on the back into a regional grassland habitant humans did help it a bit but important difference lives have been able was because the natives best got in us see how that was. Scenes right out of history when buffalo tourist cattle and wild horses frightened throughout europe a small number of those species have returned to thrive in the wild grazing on this former soviet military base in the Czech Republic because the area was becoming overwhelmed by invasive plants conservationists here in mill of it said from the european wildlife project 5 years ago to deploy the large herbivores. To the goal was to return to the original diversity. After the military left because he needed the invasive grasses and bushes began to grow here. They started to gradually overwhelm the rare species such as rare flowers and animals linked to them including butterflies which. The project has seen a bio type emerge named think european serengeti all manner of rare and threatened species have returned like the adonis blue butterfly last spotted hair in 1967 the red cross or star gentian is also taking free to get. A resulting success for the environmentalists but to flourish the european serengeti needed animals chosen according to very special criteria. So if youre if youre curious the combination of wild horses european bison and taurus. The horses eat the grasses. The bison on the taurus focus more on the bushes. So that combination gives the best result she thought it was going to that is they create a diverse landscape which is disappearing in europe. Where the tourist cattle have come from a netherlands back Breeding Program which aims at coming close to the original or ups the buffalo and wild horses come from European Nature reserves in this nature reserve the animals up. Doors the year round and have begun to predict. That if we give nature of chance. If we give it time and space it can take care of many things. By that i mean it is capable of returning species that already disappeared and that they are able to returns on taney asli its about as a child at the very beginning i thought that lots of species that used to be here in the 1990 s. Would have to be returned here artificially today a number of them have returned already without us having done anything to help. You to stop. The project began with 40 had tessa plant and now its grown to a time stamped an area quickly into more than 300. 00 soccer pitches the european wildlife project is also just being given the Sustainable De