and welcome to equal africa environment magazine. corporate used by n t be in uganda channels, t the image area and dw in gemini. i am sandra to nobody and a weed. me today as always is michael present a crease? hey chris, how are you today? just fine. sandra, thank you so very. a much on the one. welcome to all our viewers, all dead. we have a lot in store for you on today's program. so let's take a quick look at what we have coming up. in our cheerio, we'll meet a young atom is campaigning for the environment. and the rhonda will learn how to pleated from land, can't be restored according to our re sent you and report climate change is having a growing impact on the african continent. pete, in the most vulnerable the hottest science based climate information can help build resilience. a cornerstone of climate change adaptation. what enables people in the villages and communities to understand what climate changes and at the same time to do something about it. they gambia environmental monitoring system science project in west africa is also try to involve the local population in the process with when we think every change as carefully noted, m u h week cardiac to clarity and at the see not david davis collect environmental data from the aquatic an terrestrial ecosystems in 6 locations along the gumbo river. right now i'm recording the parameters we have here, which is their 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 live near the river. for centuries, they help subsist that on small scale fishing and farming man groups, which will to salt out of the water made that possible. but due to the 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, am would when the among goose were helping big nowhere, no problem. so wondering why they are now dead. and our crops are not doing well when they, when enrolled on it. not a lot of research has been done on bio diversity and d environment in the gumbo. so that makes predict the impact climate change might have on local ecosystems more difficult. that inspired 10 young scientists to launch the gems initiative. jazz is an acronym program, their environmental measurement systems project, and it is the research project whereby we're collecting environmental data along there. again, ms. understand this is no, i'm yellow, fluctuations happening. but what's away is almost 1200 kilometers long. so the institutes rely 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 city in theater collector is through 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 project 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, daughter am 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 breeding ground. for fish and other aquatic life. the fresh water fish have moved further upstream. with the help of international n g o z and volunteers and zoom on our double hopes to restore the mongol forest but with a different, more robust variety. thanks that he did as required regressing should we, i been able to know the salinity level of, of the water and secondary. i've been able to identify this piece of mangrove re half. we didn't, our echoes, houston gay, absolve, lot of sort a lag before. when there was not 3 salt in tucson, is that well now, how's the among those are so tara level, the absolve, let or so that has made a decrease in salinity level, which andy woman rice for too much a barrel. was being quin rice here for 20 years. halston newly planted, redman gross will give her crops a fighting chance. jo. well, we thank god, what a new man gross along the river. asked a grueling less salt. we'll get through gardening along and while wound since august 2021 more than 850000 mongrels having planted in the cumbia river delta in order to conserve the echo system. the symbiosis of scientific knowledge and local engagement is barren food. why do we actually need climate activists? what can they do better van politicians and scientist for one thing, they speak for the our own generation. our generation that has to cope with the world will leave them, but more importantly, the money to motivate other young people. and my compatriots, identical or ludvigsen, says about what lies ahead of us in terms of environmental protection. can all be done by the few echo africa visited her. ah, my name is ally this, i'd indicate i'm an equal feminist climate justice suck to the senate reporter using a video blog as her fighting to orlando to dinner is one of africa's most vocal environmental activists. having studied agricultural, the 27 year old has always had the love for the environments, but it was after meeting greater tune the at the 2019 cop conference in madrid, that she was inspired to take further action. standing alone, she started the fight in future movement inland. jerry, all, what we want is to have climate. justice is where we are going that mike has the most irrespective of the country where we have from all the oh i read. we are all in the same the one year into protesting every friday and giving talks, allowed us to realize that there was a lack of knowledge about climate change on the continent. so she started her own pan african climate justice movement and website where she writes about how africa specifically, is affected. just like the classes between the found my son, it's min, the survival issue for full resource calling to this drinking lake. chad and every other crisis happening within africa and i goes on hot. let people get all in this turn that we have a problem in our society. we need to solve this problem right now. as an echo feminist allowed us is work also focuses on how environmental rights connected with women's rights. she regularly visits female farmers to teach them how to care for their environments and adapt bits after the changes. her greatest fashion is inspiring children and getting them involved in climate activism. at schools, she teaches about recycling and planting trees at valley santo ha, and i know the importance of plants enough trees collected is bird need to stop cutting down. she, i'm planning to see when i grew up our plans trees in my house to to stop. 1 arrows for allowed to sue climate education is the only way to secure their future in thickets. to call it, they'll be in this family that will be the one at the forefront of the climate. and i'm justice movements. we advocate family deb, different perspective orlando. so believes that everyone, regardless of each can and should do something to protect the planets. oh good. so why no stop right now? climate change is needed to set the necessary changes in motion. only a combination of all of them can slow down the increase in global temperature bit by bit. but crease even if we stoped in written greenhouse gases to date, the rise in global temperatures would want to begin to flatten after a few years. there is a time loud meeting what we do and when we feel the results. this is why it is urgent to up now and why other plan is a walking, a new mobility concept that can be implemented quickly and sustainably. desk animation shows what the host clarkson hamburg would look like if all the cars and traffic signs were gone. making room for trees and graph. it could be a square paradise for cyclists and pedestrians. but it actually looks like this, much to the displeasure of hamburg graphic designer, yan kaminsky. you would like to see fundamental changes, which is why he began making animations of how he believed streets should be been on fun, out of ports. we're going the project got started with the beginning of the kobe man demick mer to mission. i looked around and thought of, i don't want to just sit and wait for the changes we need. i want to contribute. read august i. and as a visual designer, i can change urban spaces up or before and on. yon kaminsky thinks grace treats and dreary squares should be transformed around the world for at least an animation to start like here in new york city and in belgium's capital, brussels and journeys capital berlin, the graphic designer, launched social media accounts under the name utopia for bicyclist, as paul may up transfers, father, we need more space for bikes and more bicycles so that their genius can take effect for some follicle, their low emissions, the some i didn't take up little space compared to other modes of transportation plots and can be used for many things on us, a few studies in that spot. young kaminsky fission is already reality. in germany's neighbor, the netherlands, for example, in the countries port, largest city attract were a 125000 people cycle daily. whatever the, whether that's more than a 3rd of the city's population communication expert chris franklin works for the dutch cycling empathy, a network that advocates for greater use of bicycles. he spent much of his time on the bradenberg the most heavily traveled bicycle path in the netherlands. a good 33000 to buy craters used every day. but before it used to be a mouth lane road with heavy traffic, like the one found in all cities. unfortunately, a lot of cities cycling is still just for the fit in the brave and the really risks taller and people that are willing to rub shoulders with motor vehicles. but that's not the vast majority of people that live in that city. they want to be able to tune out and just enjoy their commutes. and when you provide safe, sag separated space for cycling. you're going to attract more of those, those casual users. a lot of women, a lot of children, a lot of the elderly people with physical disabilities in 2019 to run the biggest parking garage for bicycles open to track displays, tell cyclists if any spaces are freed up to. 12500 bike riders can park here. right next to the main station. chris franklin says the garage is another reason why the netherlands can be described as a bike friendly. in fact, the country has become known for its bike friendly and dixie, please, and solutions such as the daphne shippers bridge, which passes over the roof of the school and connects to neighborhoods for many new tract cycling. it's more convenient than shore is just so much more convenient to travel around the city on a bike and so much quicker and more. fund hamburg is still far from being cyclists, paradise, but young from ins. he hopes to at least bring attention to urban ability. question, nearly till thoughts of africa is a working population are employed in funding. so the sectors, economic importers can't be overstated. it also provides food for millions of fundies, of course. but climate change pauses a growing threat to agriculture, drought stricken soil that has been leached or eat nutrients, cannot produce a decent harvest. so how can food security be maintained? here is one answer from render. coaxing a decent harvest out of the soil is tough here and the mountainous chicken b district of north and rwanda. eugene hi. dina manor and his wife worked from dan till dusk their field or on steep slopes. so when it rains, the water flushes the soil down into the valley. if things don't change the farm of fears, his family could face starvation. since this is their sole source of income, the only thing he thought you look at these bananas liked what we used to harvest banana bunches weighing over 50 kilos insulation. so looking at this one, you can see we have a problem, look on them. a situation made less by climate change. heavy rainfall alternating with extreme drive periods has rendered entire slope barren, meaning they're no longer suitable for forming your mother. it's difficult to farm in these mountainous areas with such excessive rainfall. if it causes land, crops, and fields to be frequently washed away, not to mention the loss of life among local people. no, no. under these conditions, farmers killers hope to produce harvests without a sustainable solution to all these problems that you know, you wouldn't it. this is where the green to can be programmed, comes in agriculture experts, visit farmers to show them how to respond to the changing weather conditions and how to protect their soil soon. this it's hope the project will benefit are on half a 1000000 people across the 800 square kilometers that, that you can be district covers. it has the budget of nearly 30000000 euros and it's funded by the u. n's, green climate fun. with no time to waste every one pitches in to put the expert insights into practice, those are hunger, learning the end up with a it increases our awareness of climate change and how to adapt our farming methods to thomas. we taught how to restore our abandoned learn how to fight erosion during the rainy season and how to store rain water for irrigation during the dry season. yamazik to let you know it's very useful. so please one key is the build terraces on the slopes. this allows more rainfall to seep into the soil and slows down the water flow into the valley. plus the terraces, the easier to plant crops on horizontal trolls also being creative to slow down and divert fast flowing run off water. that water can then be collected and stored in underground tanks to be used later by reagan. there at the thought that us is, has a double impact, has impact to reduce the soil erosion daughter tain, in the soil contributor due to the productivity, and also the physician, a applicant, all different sizes going where due to the establish those benches, terraces out on the terraces, the farmers also plant additional trees. their roofs will over time protect the soil from erosion while their leaves will provide shade during dry season. for the soul, steam, mice for longer, mays, beans, and potatoes go far better, and the farmers can improve their yields. many tracts of land they used to lie fallow and now flourishing again. the variety of vegetables leading to improve nutrition amongst the local population. in salisbury, the harvest that we're expecting this season is a miracle for me. from this land was no longer usable. but since the arrival of green jacoby climate change is no longer stopping us from growing crops, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! just look at what we have in these fields shown in the further boost to the farmer's livelihood. new t plantations are being used up on that land that had long ceased to be fertile, and there are more wide years in the pipeline. we can recommend any area in the throb which is appropriate, appropriate for protein before it's free, appropriate for so for a 3 appropriate for conservation. i look across the valley and beyond reveals the dividends of the green to can be project. the arid brown of depleted slopes is gradually disappearing, replaced by lush greenery and farm land, with some depend on healthy sleep. others depend on an inter to marine ecosystem. but there is only a limited amount of fish in our oceans, and those resources are being depleted. he does right sandra, according to the adobe adobe f system. mati over fission and illegal fishing of valuable fish stalks is to blame for the destruction of many marine ecosystems. with the help of digital technology, a project on south africa's cape wants to end the suffering of local fishermen there. 5 30 in the morning at the port of cape town, while most of the city still sleeves escaping jeffrey fraser and his crew prepared to put out to see the 10 member crew are going hand line fishing for kate green. they're hoping for a good catch today they did have been with and also the pleasures of the school. if you ever have a good skipper, you know, get nothing. there might be some truth in that, but it's a little fishy to lay all the blame on the skipper. conditions for artisan or commercial fishing on the cape have grown tougher over the years. possibly climate change over fishing of the bytes. change of current young plenty reasons i can give you they also struggle with fishing quotas and market access. jeffrey fraser wants to improve conditions for his crew and has found the solution in the upper lobby app of a lobby, which means someone who fishes in the local language connects small. so fishes directly with consumers. daniel smith helped found the app and the n g o of the same name, which began as the university of cape town research project in 2017 parents on africa under on the world. small scale fishes have been excluded and struggle for access to market a below be came about recognizing that there was this need. and there's an opportunity to then connect these small scale fishes digitally and to markets. and for them to be able to access and and own their own data. in practice, this means jeffery fraser and his crew consult a daily catch to restaurants and private directly through the upper lower be cutting out the middleman level of is quite good. but that you know what we going for and what we catch in the price is much greater than we get from the local buyers. so for us, it's a big room in the reggie shang says, middleman only paid fishes roughly a euro kilo, okay, bring worth on of a low be the crew connect over 3 times fast. that means they can generate the same revenue with a smaller catch up a little bit as finance, through donations and outside funding. the entry oh, behind the app helps the fishes with infrastructure and logistics catches go by refrigerated truck to decentralized refrigerated storage facilities. short holes help reduce the carbon footprint of a little bit employee. han goliath confirms the ways of catch. he comes from a fishing family and wants to help his community beneficiary and i want to remain your future. so you restrict or walk bought, or fishing, or do or thing for as long as are in victor, vendor fishing industry. what i will already do is to just assure starts to work toward the approaches between after we get the fish in the end consumer, which is a challenge for generations rule. and that's exactly what happens the catches from jeffrey phrases, boat and other, a below be fishes, go online and become available to customers on the apps market place. page chef meals swat is co owner of a restaurant in cape town. he is one of the over 400 ships in 8000 private customers registered as buyers on up a lobby. last night, the shift placed an order on the app. this morning, hunger life delivers it 5 kilos of k. bring the proof is in the pudding or the fish fish for that matter like that. the quality of the fish we got is just that something we haven't worked with before with the apps q r code, the restaurant. and his guests can trace exactly where a fish comes from. the fishes name, the species, and where it was, quote, jeffrey, i love knowing where the money's going. so i love knowing that the money is going to the fisherman and knock some massive companies just amusing the sea. and the customers also enjoy hearing that the money that they india by us goes directly to the fisherman. and we can see exactly how much they get. since his debut, applebee has put more than 500000 heroes directly into the pockets of struggling fishes. similar projects are already up and running, and other countries all aimed at preserving fish stocks and ensuring local fishing has in living wage. i mean ourselves against climate change and its consequences as well as gaining new knowledge to educate local populations and apply new ideas and methods. i hope visitation of the show convinced you how important karen fly environment is for now. good bye for me, chris. a lance in lagos, nigeria, we hope you enjoyed a good mix of topics coming through from africa and europe. and of course, we look forward to having your company once again next week. i am sandra tree. nobody a single from compiler, here in uganda. ah with ah, with ah, with a winter wonderland. i'm almost there. all that's left is this mountain pass. this time i'm going to be pretty high up in the anger the. it's a velli in the swiss alps and it's my very 1st time. luca shows us the highlights of this stunning region from st. morris to the matter horn. check in in 30 minutes on d. w. o. it's vital, essential, important, and obviously healthy water. the motto is, drink lots of it. but is that always good for you? kim water also 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