Against goliath time for me to tell everyone whats going on. But. The borneo case starts october nineteenth w. Hello and welcome to a new show of africa our environmental magazine brought to you by charles t. V. And. My name is felicia ends b. And im here in johannesburg and my colleague neal to egghead joins me from nigeria. Hi there felicia and hello everyone today well have some very exciting new environmental stories for you from africa and europe such as how farmers in mali are dealing with the Climate Change situation in this a hell region but thats not all here the other stories we have lined up for today. I was on the car wash and surprising cameron is expanding. Dont talk about how the songs raise can be used to distill water. And i want to hog a scene in uganda turning truck. Through the. Press and thats had to do in cameroon one of the problems affecting the metropolis is
a shortage of water especially for the local cower services which is believed to waste quite a lot of it experts estimate that it takes more than one hundred liters of water to clean just one single car and that is no good a local startup has proved that Environmentalists Business Friendly Activity is a Growing Market in africa it could africa takes you on a ride to the cowboys. Still single not regularly inspected machines a local entrepreneur he launched his business last year we just a few now he has twenty five soon a part time washington. We bring them something new you know most of the car was in africa they use a Chemical Product we are using not only not sure our product to make because shine. And they usually six liters of water per car a fraction of the amount used in
a regular car watch the water is dispensed by a solar powered pump the pressure can be regulated. One less often sees Water Shortages the chaps running dry its a megacity with a lot of cars standard car washes are a terrible waste of the Precious Resource its estimated that a normal car wash uses approximately one hundred liters per car the companys mobile kits i use life serves on private customers across. Its twenty two employees are Firm Believers in the environmental approach of the business of the energy theres no need to go and charger batteries or sockets its a silence Energy Source and its reliable thanks to the solar panel oxalate each car wash costs the equivalent to one euro and fifty cents and takes about fifteen
minutes customers are impressed i notice. This. But i go and see for the call because the pins of the car to last longer because they dont use the sun. Its called the recovery and more women more customers are using the service home watch makes about a thousand lives each month. Set ups in calgary and not well supported as they are in new york where you record Business Ideas on the produce you harbor and go in and call the bank back you up here is a really sad but it is not knopfler dot org to always keep axing your to bring some. Around see like you need to really. Do a Hospital Thing like that through to to get the money and its a shame and im sure a lot of entrepreneurs in africa are striking down because of this the
forty year old entrepreneur now wants to expand his signed a franchise in contract with the board and will be sending some of his machines that theyll also be another franchise in ivory coast. So by expand a Spondee Business everywhere now we. Have to to aspect create jobs and also educate population to safe water to protect our men so they madonna already has a plan for next year as cameroon will host the nations cup the entrepreneurialism submitting a proposal to governments suggesting that during the football Tournament Young people can cause in an environmental friendly way it is sold out washing kits. Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate in Two Thousand And Eighteen a study showed that Population Sizes of forty two percent of known terrestrial and plant
species has shrunk considerably even the plans that we eat are also in danger an association in austria is trying to preserve all the rights of vegetables herbs fruits and grains. Michelle itself agrees twenty different varieties of beans in his garden every year he tries out new types. These varieties he says were eaten way back in the middle ages these days many of them are no longer readily available and. I can produce the Seed Varieties in the quantities that i want for any border on average of beanstalk has three plants are
we from one plant and so i can get enough seeds for myself and a further seven or eight people to. The Austrian Initiative i should know our supply seeds to hold the garden the group wants to preserve as much biodiversity as possible. Many of the older varieties are more resilient than commercially grown fruits and vegetables the harvest tend to be longer to more than sixty kinds of tomatoes grow here Elizabeth Put Sky is responsible for the show garden. These rushing q cumbers can be harvested until late fall and what small theyre also resistant to a common fungal disease. I thought that the old varieties havent been intensely farmed so theres more Genetic Variability a greater range thats why theyre more adaptable if your chin that potential is
too narrow you can only survive in certain environments but not in others. Older varieties have this potential for harm to the book and thought. Is on a quest to preserve these older genetic types over the past three decades hes collected some Five ThousandSeed Varieties and since theyre so robust they could play an increasingly Important Role in the process of adapting to Climate Change organic produces and garden is also interested in these older varieties they perform better in soil that hasnt been sprayed with chemical fertilizers. These are from falls and were trying to grow these Five Thousand varieties in a five year rotation so it doesnt always work that were trying to do a thousand a year we always take stock and say what variety is this how adaptable is it whats the produce like weve documented all. Bill get that man is in charge of the
garden weekends visitors come here to discover varieties theyve never seen before in the supermarket. They find out how to plant and cultivate them. Touching smelling and tasting is encouraged here the aim is to awaken an interest in preserving biodiversity. Up front that are going to see every plant has its own story its own way of being cultivated by when youre really know a plant you know these things thats the only f one doesnt this think you have any loss of knowledge is an impoverishment but when it goes beyond a critical Point Society loses out to. Itself. To prevent that from Happening Benyamin is doing his best to spread the word hes the chef at The Noise Show God Restaurant and cooks with produce from the garden over
the last century theres been a seventy five percent reduction in older forms of crops. Its hoping to make more popular again. So i came from and i always say ive managed to get around quite a bit angel i thought i knew most fruit and vegetables but then i encountered. And i noticed i knew only a tiny portion. He uses his newfound expertise to whip up tasty dishes theyve become known all over the region good food and good times this chefs recipe for preserving biodiversity. The Wildlife Trade is big business and generate substantial revenue worldwide every year thousands of Birds Species in millions of individual birds are traded internationally many end up in small cages in private homes where they were. Indeed and never see another bird or even a tree yes its a sad life but here in south africa a Small Organization operates a safe haven for birds that have been rescued from captivity but cant be released back into the wild because very often the Birds Just Couldnt Cope With Living In The Wild again. Feeding tank hes twice and the bad he did a bad sanctuary. The first make this you know breasted mccoll dont waste any time living free in nature is an experience many of these bats and to use to. You. Is have been advancing has worked here for more than fifteen years and knows pretty much every bad feeling this is the sweetest little. You feel good in the us is shaking the birds feed you on the challenges all the bigger boat face even the rules and i think if you could just put as a protection we keep fighting these toes. This is a huge knitted a very conference Twenty Three Thousand square metres and up to fifty metres in height. They are more than three. Cents from a private banks the come you need to learn to be birds so they need to learn to fly they need to learn to eat the right food up of things and of course we have to also see that to act well was each other that can interact with the people that come yet because they need to be so. Sure who is responsible for the integration of commas she knows only too well. That friends have been. Somehow free. Exact a heavy price and needs to think. He was a bad. Previous owner is his owners were moving away and the landlord would to go and check on the house to make sure everything is still fine and she found him he immediately phoned us and aust us what to do and we said we will take him in and sure we will eventually releasing outside my past. To spend a few weeks before being released into the main. He has to be given a clean bill of health and to be independent. Most of them more than physically. Damaged and they very dependent on you and our purses that we try and get is trying to get them demonized which means were trying to get them independent of humans when they can survive on their own the sanctuary is financed
by the money visit here. Thats why animals even in the aviary. Around half of the Two Hundred Twenty species here are from africa the rest from other parts of the wild. And. Every year millions of bands for victims to try to deny. The picture africa is a huge Huge Industry if you just think of a single one like Africa South Africa exports Something LikeNinety Thousand parrots other countries and its part a lot of the original on the wall but it is going to. Be teaching people about. It. Sadly mads of it in is often many more bad than you can
take you by people who cant or dont want to take care of their piece anymore he had taken leave of their lives in really to freedom a bit of faith and that of many other buds held in captivity. It might look like a salad bowl but you can use that to produce clean water pretty cool idea hey a Friends Company created the new prototype as part of our series doing obits where we show you new ideas and innovations from around the globe that aims to make the world a greener place. In many countries clean Drinking Water is a scarce resource. In africa alone three hundred forty Million People dont have access to it. The Population Growth and Climate Change are making things even
was. French Company Marine tech has come up with an idea. That produces these plastic hellyeah spirits. Which talk dirty water into Drinking Water. The sphere contains a tray thats filled with unpurified water. When the sun heats the sphere the water evaporates. It condenses on the dome and then collects beneath. High temperatures in the dome also kill microbes. The result is perfectly clean Drinking Water. The twelve Hundred Euro System can produce up to ten liters of water per day. Thats enough for a family of five. The manufacturer says the hell is designed to last thirty
years. You like that. If you are also doing your bit tell us about. Visit our website or send us a tweet. Ashton doing your bit share your story. Was. From your back to africa and much of mali lies in a region where conditions are harsh the sun will stretch a six thousand kilometers across the continent and people who live in the sun face months of drought every. Meteorologist say there could be more rainfall there in future but so far farmers in mali have experienced quite the opposite lengthier dry periods Water Shortages made the harvests how are people there dealing with the challenges. Shaunie cater has all but lost hope once again how well has run dry forcing her to watch in despair as how mungle trees with its
a similar scene all over are going to coral the village shes lived in since she was a child. And. Youre going to miss and you know what are the ground water level or so much high and when i was younger it was easy to dig a well you didnt have to go deep at all but women cant take wilson anymore the waters gone because of Climate Change are you referring to the. Problems many communities in mali face and local ngo from is working on solutions they are on their way to civic order to me to members of the. Which helps communities protect biodiversity. Warning. That i might. We promised to come back here we are. Five months ago members of the n. G. Or helps the local women to plant a Vegetable Garden in the village the come back to see how its doing. The women for too long gone hard to tap into the system that supplies water to a nearby hospital. Called city. Hall such a monkey with a Vegetable Garden has been designed to adapt to Climate Change this year it had lee rains when he did it can lead to and didnt last long they couldnt plant any greens and there was no peanuts without the Vegetable Garden people would be stern at home with nothing to do and theyd go hungry. And say masala midlife i mean. Meanwhile some a key is meeting the men of the village theyre learning how to prevent erosion or more like human lives and were going to crown of the trees now leave just one
branch will have enough and it will continue to produce a fruit tree and crucially it will continue to deliver more into the your limited use i mentioned in realty. These. Things are bound to work. Leaving the trees standing makes planting harder still with the effects of Climate Change so apparent most people are convinced that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Theres never any shortage of Firewood Muscle and other we men are now managing to survive off what they grow the Vegetable Garden provides them with a healthy diet and income more so once to crackdown on people who fail trees for charcoal. To get what he wanted drunk woman who spent so much time talking to people i think anyone caught cutting down trees should be fine we need the wood for cooking but
a few branches i own are for that and then when you got to what i was involved with would go along with the abortion will. Enjoy a walk a summer agrees hes been trying to persuade people not to cut down trees but its an Uphill Battle just a short distance away is the evidence for some archy and my saw the struggle is still far from over. They call it the Ghetto Wardrobe great coats and shoes made out of traps is the brainchild of Alice Noble Kenya she was so concerned about all of the rubbish lying around in her neighborhood that she organized local cleaning days indeed the plan was to incorporate the junk in art and the idea snowball took a look at this. I cant see it and stylish alice never can yeah manufactured habits from. The former students uses Recycled Materials such as rubber only thing and all the plastics she sells her creations in her shop in kampala. Word of her label get a Wardrobe Spread fast and its selling well. I decided to simplify my god into whole smaller things that i use than i did today legs and im using right now im using question as a way of Communication Claflin Fashion is my voice because people in the lounge and everyone in uganda and outside uganda allows Fashion Alleys for ghanaians as regular clean up days with her friends the twenty six year old lives in a slum in kampala although there has been an official ban on Policing Backs for three years in uganda it still hasnt properly taken in fact
alice and her friends always find a lot of bags joining the clean up which event recycles in her artwork. Right from. When i just used to you know. They used to do this voluntarily walk and they put a band. But as an artist i dont support that because it causes pollution once again the managed to collect a lot of plastic according to the Kampala City Council around fifty percent of Plastic Waste is collected every year for use to other houses just dumped in public spaces damaging water and soil fertility once in a while for young visits her Old University alice developed the idea of tackling Plastic Pollution while studying Industrial Design and seven years later it is
still being taught to other students so in this context we are looking at equipping them with skills. Designs creativity skills where in the hands of competence in appreciating the Environment Designing Products but the products also be used in the community and they are possibly recyclable last year alice began teaching young people in the slums where Plastic Pollution. When i looked at an educated woman like collecting plastic and using it for something useful i wondered why so one who has never gone to school like shouldnt also be working we used to plastics and. I want to see. Even other people conserving the environment recycling is conservation. You know there are so many ways that adele i cant i cant do it alone we can do it when we are twenty
people we can do we even one hundred we cant its just an open thing on a train more People Like Us thousands and because of the environment. Initiatives like alices may take a long time to change Plastic Pollution but with her Fashion Label gets a wardrobe she has found a clever way of raising environmental awareness in kampala no. Wow could you have imagined that such beautiful things could come from Plastic Waste. Well thats it for this weeks edition of the show i hope you enjoyed it my name is now taibbi and goodbye from the fossil park in Lagos Nigeria if you want to find out more take a closer look at our website over the past on social media you can see the information on the Screen Goodbye from johannesburg and see you next time. Move. The ball move the ball. The be. The be. The be. The ball. The ball cut. The bottom. The
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