Hello to my beautiful colleague from the should be in johannesburg hello everybody hi n. C. Today will be presenting more good ideas committed people and interesting projects focused on nature and the environment heres whats coming up on the show today. What can u. S. Cattle herders do without them i have alternatives for one thing they have less water for their animals. What you put in the world in your living room thats not unusual in cameroon and you can call on Congress Heads help protect forests yes they can they already doing so and uganda. Here in south africa intensive livestock grazing is degrading the soil in many areas heatwaves and droughts all compounding the problem leaving many areas barren. If animals can find food peoples livelihoods are under threat to stop the land turning into a desert some farmers in the eastern cape also watching from raising goats to growing plants such as lavender and rosemary to produce essential oils they require very little water and can be formed on an area much smaller than that needed for goat it at africa went out to see how this works. Rosemary i have that preferred sunny and dry location and its value lies in the plants tips we have precious interior or include highfalutin resource for the first metrics and Pharmaceuticals Industries from a william fund rensburg is novice this is his first harvest and the future of the whole valley depends on the scrap. Allowed in the Playing Field border constant small stock farming and limited space simply became too much for our land so we need to find other means of income and that is why we look at this kind of thing so we can continue with our left together with. Most years with onscreen fear. The fear of some of the. Farmers here keep. A wool is a luxury item in the clothing industry with more and more goats however the local vegetation has been eaten away i think green bushy vegetation once covered this slopes now the barren west land holds no water and no life. Daniel fori manages the above us close Development Company together with van rensburg and other farmers he leads the transition from exploitative livestock farming to organic essential oil crops the oils are extracted in this distillery essential oils you take a lot of plant material and distill it to a very small amount of product that you can easily transport in and out of the cloth and in that way we we need we reduce the amount of material that we take out of the system and all the. Claude material once of being the can actually go back into the field go back into the system we can use to make of it its a higher value crop if you need to work with. Them more efficient land use is making a difference whereas goats need extended grazing areas the essential oil crops are exclusively cultivated on the fighting floor of the valley thats where the slopes have time to recover farmer peter kruger once used his entire six thousand head his full grazing today cultivates a mare twenty hectors of rosemary for the same retirement he sold his goats and most of his farm has been declared a nature reserve for he hopes other farmers will follow kruegers example. The biggest part of it is actually to change the mindset of the farmers to change the. To change the way that theyve been doing something with the last forty years we bring courage to the farmers to to make that shift from a extractive to regenerative farming practices. The godfrey slopes are slowly recovering the living lands Organization Helps the farmers rejuvenates their land here on the completely degraded slope that was once grist their automobiles and his team worked hard to protect every single tree fern bushes keep the goats away white canvas walls collect rainwater and hold the precious soil beneath the phones new hope is proud. You know we are starting to see changes even at a small scale weve just gone through one of the worst droughts in over one hundred years. And despite that we are seeing positive changes in the ecosystem it was a leap of faith for all involved. Had to buy a new irrigation system for over sixty five thousand euros but the fust bunch of rosemary looks promising and hes sure his investment will soon pay out. A spanish buy has already ordered the fust above kloof rosemary harvest if the quality much is expected the from a scum sell their oil for eighty euros a little boosting their revenue put help to more than one hundred full. I love theyre such fun and theyre so useful its all you what the weathers going to be that help you to stay fit and you can chat with your friends when ever you like then sure i agree and see you bad for the show i absolutely agree and some really make your life a lot easier thats certainly true for herd as in kenya they roam all over the country with their counsel to look for food and water there is a great new to help them do just that. Camels on their way to graze until recently thats involved a lot of usually random searching but now a new hat helps herders locate the best pasture. The average scout app uses real time satellite images. Now we can get to cross without walking long distances. And were leaving the water point and going home early and now because we knew where the better posture was seems to be. Further north close to the kenya ethiopia border conflicts have long reached over grazing land here. Now the pastoralist have come up with a joint grazing plan and the apis help them to coordinate better. Tapes to reduce livestock mortality officially doing good graces and. Because they have got access to information which will help them make better decisions than before. Used to move to my place maybe just looking for more time pastor you know we dont need. The africa scout app was created by the International Ngo project Concern International or p. C. I. Three say their digital assistant has reduced livestock mortality by almost fifty percent. During the messiah in southern kenya also benefit from the app as they move their large herds through the savannah there pastoralist have traditionally griese their livestock in regions where wild animals live Global Warming and an increase in human populations have made conflicts with wildlife even more intense for pastoralists joel kilo is the new app has helped to reduce dangerous encounters by mapping areas that are risky for his animals. Come on the. Lions in any particular area we move to a safer place where there are no lie and. They are even shows us where theres a lot of green grass as well as areas where there was no grass atoll. And i thought wait and if it helps identify good spots just by using a phone and without leaving home. The costs alone now everythings more convenient. Its helped us a lot. P. C. I. Is sending instructors into messiah villages to explain how to best use the app by encouraging planned grazing patterns the system helps protect the land from overgrazing. So through the efforts go to application able to see how theyre injured. And in that way they can only move their livestock to places where the forage has rejuvenating nuff and avoid the areas that have been degraded and by avoiding the areas attacked been degraded they give the spaces a time to rejuvenate. For scout app is also being tested in ethiopia and tanzania helping herdsmen there to better care for their animals and the environment. Its real cool how digitalize ation is preserving grazing reserves and helping people earn a living but heres another fantastic idea a way to avoid just throwing away old metals and making something new and valuable out of that twenty six year old highly trained as a Petroleum Engineer couldnt find a job so it was somehow fitting that he found a way to repurpose old oil drums this weeks doing your bit comes from camera. Gear is graduated as a Petroleum Engineer but hasnt found work yet. So the twenty six year old needed to find a different source of income. Thats why he checks out old oil drums in his hometown by amanda camerons Third Largest city the drums are made of metal but theres no organized recycling here. As this one cheaply and takes it home. Hopefully nothing will fall out of the car before he gets there. Then the hard work begins. Whats this supposed to be attainable for a romantic candlelit dinner. Plate terms of how leaders finished can take up to two days work. The finished product in all its beauty priced roughly seventy five euros. Or can actually make two chairs out of one own drum. You like that. If you are also doing your bit tell us about. This is our website. Or send us a tweet. Hashtag doing your bit sharing your story. So lets head over to my we tainio the only National Park is an amazing power deisel birds no where else on the west african sub region can you find so many species in such a small area but the region is highly vulnerable to Climate Change and local authorities with the support of germanys Development Agency are trying to secure biodiversity in the park and boost its role as a drive local Sustainable Development our reporter went there to find out more. Year for year the sea level here has been rising as locals can see with their own eyes a growing number of them are having to leave their homes along the beach the older generation still remembers what it used to look like here. Now what used to be half the village used to be here said to me they were even houses on this very spot before it was all flooded there are probably remains of houses on the seabed over there. Dont get on do you. Cover the. Senate dean works in the nearby do walling National Park he confirms the gravity of the situation. Could speak to you yeah you might my spoke to an old miner who told me that in one thousand nine hundred eight arming alone is increasingly difficult land is in short supply due to the ground becoming oversalted with their livelihoods destroyed people are having to move inland but the diwali National Park twelve kilometers away provides alternative sources of income a few years ago it was home to far fewer animals today its a breed. Ground for over three hundred species of birds including flamingoes theres both fresh water and salt water in the senegal river delta. Nature conservation makes sense here protecting the ecosystem also creates jobs. Fishermen sell their fish across the country and even in neighboring senegal. In the past people lived here from farming to. But really fishing makes most sense we can make a living from fishing all year round and benefit from the loch in the basin there are lots of fish here. The abundance of fish is a recent development thirty years ago the region was left ravaged by this dam built in the one nine hundred eighty s. To supply mauritania senegal gambia and mali with fresh water. It devastated the natural environment. There the construction of the dom completely destabilized the ecosystem it was destroyed. Not true balance was destroyed the balance between sold water and fresh water. Wasnt fresh water was blocked and couldnt reach the National Park three. Years later the problem was addressed with the construction of these locks built with the help of the german k F W Development bank and the german Development Agency. The Park Authority has demarcated fishing zones and make sure the fishermen respect spawning seasons. Of fresh water in the basin has helped revive the local fauna to. Lotuss have begun thriving again. Local women spend two to three hours a day in the water collecting seeds from the lotus stalks. Then they sort them shell and dry them and over a period of several weeks turn them into cous cous. After the dam was built until last year we couldnt harvest anything but now nature has started to recover the lotuses have returned and we can collect. They harvested some six hundred kilos last year and up to feed their families for months and sell the excess another successful venture made possible by the park. Back. The delta biologist zen is out on the water almost every day taking a look at the nesting sites in. The dew wanting National Park is home to the greatest concentration of birds in west africa and in addition to rescuing animal habitats in the region the conservation zone has also helped to secure human livelihoods. Germany is committed to switching to Renewable Energy and using energy more efficiently right now in germany more than a third goes on to buildings so it is good news for the climate but more and more new constructions there are dumps whats known as posse housing stock. Thats right n. C. That means using variable energy for heating and as long as fossil fuel is the source causing far less c o two emissions its not just private homes that have been built cities and use that public buildings are as well including he said serving pool and the residences and giants. This looks like a typical indoor Swimming Pool but it uses sixty Percent Less Energy it was the first one built in europe according to the Energy Efficient building standard known as passive house. Bamberg Public Utility Company has run the complex for seven years City Residents supported the project i think that was back then when we were deciding whether to renovate the old pool which was fairly small or build a new one we chose to look to the future one. Could ask. We decided to build a new Swimming Pool according to the highest standards both in terms of Customer Service and ecological guidelines you called over to stand out and get a unique insulation envelops the building. All the water slides were put in doors. Less water evaporates thanks to the pools design that means the ventilation system doesnt have to work so hard all these features save money and energy for the Community Pool even if initial costs were high. The cost of house features accounted for five and a half Million Euros out of an overall budget of thirty five million but were certain that those costs will be recruit fairly quickly since our energy costs have dropped significantly. Some additional heating is required to keep the temperature cozy inside the facility but here to a sustainable solution was found a combined heat and power or c. H. P. Plant small wood chips are burned in a specially designed system its efficient and uses less resource says the technician in charge. We dont have the wood just to generate heat. The c. H. P. Plant provides heat and electricity. A level of efficiency is significantly better than that of a conventional heating system. Thats why the company has also planted poplar trees in a Water Conservation area the size of fifty football fields. Happens were growing poplar trees here without using harmful fertilizers or pesticides. So were protecting the water and providing an Energy Supply for the Swimming Pool complex. Modifications or additions are a problem however any changes require the insulating layer to be broken apart and completely redone. Architects eon bartels and his company have been building passive house homes on the outskirts of berlin for some time its still a nice market. Until construction practices change its not possible to build a passive house for everyone they simply cost more initially even if they do pay off over time but for now manpower and material cost prohibitive boom in the sector. He means materials like styrofoam which is an excellent flame retardants unfortunately not enough is available to cover the growing demand for individual homeowners like a day thats not an issue today hes choosing a paint. I choose the most environmentally friendly option if i can for me theres a synergy between Environmental Protection and technology. Just like the public pool in Bamberg Carsten dividends passive house can save energy in many ways. He doesnt need to dismantle heating and the Solar Power System supplies power for his house and his electric cars. Good ideas can work everywhere and that certainly holds for our next story its about a german ugandan joint projects they have developed a method to turn maize spend also enter briquettes a great way to make use of biomass waste they want to see people in uganda using less firewood and more of these natural briquettes for cooking and heating are eager of course i went out to investigates. In dead to university in century uganda provides meals to one thousand eight hundred students every day. And uses huge amounts of cooking wood in the process. The university is looking to change that with the help of the german engineer brett smit hes working with the Energy Research center to replace wood with most a synagogue we cant make from court waste. The first new stuff is already in operation. It was a former fire wood stove and we adopted you to do it because its already planning to adopt another store for prek. Through precut and one by one will be replaced i think the university helps to radically reduce its root consumption uganda has a huge problem with their first ration every year ninety thousand hacked is a forest on lost in the country much of the wood is used to cook food for the universe to get from it seriously its because its from local farmers who grow corn also known as maize we take the maize only the corpus we just throw in the good or we just even today approach. That he claims when the people came yeah kristie even got some money and they give they can pay their corpse. Albert smith has translated the farm to collect the cobs rather than throwing them away. The three large sacks each farmer receives a privilege of one u. S. Dollar its a vulcan source of extra income for the small scale farmers too often struggle financially the cubs draw out at a small factory then