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first let's give a warm welcome to my charming colleague sharon in nairobi kenya hello shar hello and to you and hello to all of our viewers welcome to today's edition of eco at africa my name is sharon in my new form nairobi kenya and that's writes today we will be talking about how use materials can be used to monitor new products you will be amazed this is what is coming up on the show today we visit a community in western uganda that's introduced a new environmentally friendly product to the local market led from elephant dung then head to spain where a local startup is turning into a brand new product and it will whisk you off to what a lot of levels well a new effort is under way to protect the fascinating creatures from extinction. the women we are profiling in al fast segment aren't afraid of the elephants about show

up in their yards to the contrary the latest in a small community in western uganda are using elephant dung to a very live ng they are making paper out of it it sounds almost too good to be true and the extra income that the women ironing is going a long way it helps them to send their kids to school or pay for medicine and in the long run those women in the queen elizabeth national park in uganda also hope to do something to stop elephant poaching as well. elephants' dong is a valuable resource for people here members of the guitar community who live near the queen elizabeth national park collects these drop ins as a raw material for people or. moses is heading up the project he picked up

on the idea after a group of tourists explained the process to him. off the long time suffering because of. the bhangra under strain we look on how we're going to get the composition for the groups that influence. the plants eaten by elephants contain fiber that makes excellent paper the women first soften the dung boiling and washing it's to clean it for really the remaining fibers are venue into of pulpy mass and dried. the guitar community uses the paper to make bags notebooks and event cards scraps can be turned into necklaces for communities products are purchased by lodges in the park and sold on to tourists for between five and fifteen dollars. when those in this. way use some of the money to buy school much as for often children.

that's provided. while the rest we reinvest in the handicrafts ship. one woman there were. other villages have also turned to collect in elephant dung and these farmers buells makeshift houses in their fields to keep watch over the crops when the elephants calm they try to chase them away and keep the drop ins on average they collect about one hundred kilograms of dung every week. when the elephants have headed back to the park we go out and get the dong dry it and sell it to the tara community i am three dollars for each bucket and that helps me buy something else. for.

now you want to know much will quit and uganda many farmers are women often they are we don't swith no obvious source of income their husbands were killed while poaching in the park the elephants pose real threat to their crops but being able to make an income from there don't has helped change their attitude towards the elephants or go without. bad feelings about it now we're focusing on improving this project. to pay for our children's school fees they want to grow up to feel the packers in part because their fathers are killed there too also such projects like these our young fools wildlife authorities say the qatar community's help in uganda its population of five thousand elephants to grow back in the one nine hundred eighty s. they were just seven hundred of the animals left in the country. moses the god and the others in the project are committed to the cause at first our people our

own days are to get i voted for sale and others then they get meat for sale and others they poison because of being annoyed so we're also trying to address the extinction of elephants you know community because as i talk to people now they are no longer committing an offense that no longer present to get a fuss because they are gaining. income out of that and offense and with the elephant population growing business is booming and most is a godless paper making startup. spanish fashion company is trying to reduce the amount of plastic waste that cumulating in our oceans every year they have to mean up with local fisherman to collect garbage that is in the mediterranean sea off the coast of spain their timing trash into brand new products

they call it absolutely something more and more startups in europe are investing in the company which is operating in spain and germany wants to help protect the environment with sustainable ideas in all segments doing your bit you learn just how they're absolutely works. did you know that a third of the world's plastic ends up in the environment. because. some of these plastics take four hundred years to decompose. all the while killing her own species and destroying our ecosystem. spanish fashion label says it's time to act. the company has initiated

a project called up cycling the ocean. they've teamed up with fisherman to collect trash floating at sea. the trash is sorted cleaned and converted into fabric these recycled materials are then used to produce clothes shoes and accessories. this process saves water energy and other vital resources. the project has already recovered over one hundred thirty tons of trash from our oceans you liked us. because. you are also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet. to. take to. our stories. and now back to you and to tell us more about the island of madagascar well one of the wild. animals leave. i mean is our only found in

madagascar and almost ninety four percent of all species of lemurs are on the threat in part due to human loss loss of the hands of human eco hero this week is a professor from germany on the focus of his research piece a couple of regularly troublesome on augusta and helps to set about the association that's working to improve the chances of survival. autumn in care in the far east the rainy season has come to an end and everything is still a lush green in this usually dry deciduous forest themis only live in the forests of madagascar these men are hot on the tracks they want to get hold of the thief aka the largest lima in this forest. a perfect catch

the lemurs measured and weighed and the transmitter is attached to its body. is he's male side so we know exactly what he's done since birth. and that's a benefit of marking these animals individually that. we can get very detailed information about the individual molecules pizza capital is a professor at the german primate center of getting in university. he has been conducting research into lemus into reality for more than twenty years and runs the primate center as field station in the forest eight species of lima live here including dick's string the red narrow striped mongers how did limas interact with of a new human species how do they live in their environment there are still many questions left unanswered about the behavior of the limas logging but how much time is left to find out more both the forest and its inhabitants are endangered.

ten kilometers away that's a fork in the road to the residents of a nearby village sell their proxies mostly corn some melons. the forest provides them sustenance even as they slowly contribute to its destruction. the forest was burnt down to plant corn and peanuts but the so when it's already pleated off the just a few harvests so it does prove beyond reminders to us full story gets depressing as depressing as you can imagine it would be it's the hubris what's frustrating too is that it's not evil corporations here setting up oil plantations you know it's the poor rural population who have to try to make a living somehow. so. a nearby village like everywhere in madagascar its population is growing. people know that the forest is disappearing it will be

here for another twenty or thirty years perhaps what then. are. not going to be so hot we depend on wood our houses the furniture it's all made of wood if you want to sell something it's wood we also cook with wood charcoal when there's nothing left people will move on that's what will happen. the research of how to set up a nursery where the first seedlings of being planted. the rapidly growing trees will alleviate pressure on the forest. susie at the top know it's going high since this is just a drop in the bucket there are so many children here and the only hope is that we can raise awareness among them and make sure that they look after the trees that they develop a sense of responsibility for nature to one because otherwise it won't work or. go to sleep the researchers will continue their efforts. preserving the korean the

forest is essential otherwise the limas have no chance of survival. farmers account for the bulk of nigeria's rule population i mean tension maybe to feed their families but to do it well they must know and understand the soil and how to get the most out of it the small holders farmers will radio is trying to help we daily i would cultural programming the station board cost everything from environmental farming techniques to business advice and daily market information this community radio service in southeastern nigeria educates and entertain that's tuning in for a moment our regular drama this week talks about mixing browse and please list len and send.

was the brains behind a radio initiative designed to reach out to nigeria's farmers and teach them about sustainable farming methods smallholder farmers rural radio reaches three thousand three hundred listeners in around six communities in southeastern a cheerier. area off the right. to the rights of something that is very relevant it's vital to the teacher in my. life. i think. to do something different with those. green agriculture accounts for just over twenty percent of nigeria's g.d.p. . but seventy percent of the country's working population is employed in the sector one major problem farmers say is flooding. this florida shoe in fact it just

been. a problem because i read the changes we are living off some years the good that things are not moving as expected on that note. agric sixty one year old farmer paula niemann cultivates mainly rice yams and kasama on his three acre farm in a bunny state in southern nigeria even with the crude method of farming he's known on his life he's able to produce forty to fifty bags of rice every year. but he says financing is a problem he's been. putting game we finance. nobody you did being a fanatic. we. know we reach our hand. as well as broadcasting from the station he could go no also goes out to hear what

the people think he's convinced that since he started his radio show in two thousand and seven it's had a positive influence on people's actions. in doing this was all the. sense of community decision when it comes in and says that. everybody comes in by. legal duty people really all but everybody at the end of the day sixty. it's not only fertilisers seeds and weed killers that nigeria's farmers need to know about. because of climate change it's important for them to learn about improving farming techniques and how they can better adapt. and now we had to iceland to see breathtakingly beautiful and pristine scenery through the eyes of photography all our auto beca but as amazing as a majestic ice caves appear to be global warming still has

a firm grip on europe's nabhan regions women's ice is the melting than previously believed and that's according to nasa but sadly the photographer's impressive pictures only seem to confirm those reports see for yourself. all of us a beca has been exploring the world of icebergs and places since two thousand and three he's become an eyewitness to its decline ever since if the temperature were to rise by five degrees celsius by the end of the century such images would no longer exist. but. when you know that there is global warming and you see an iceberg like this and you can see how it is sweating all the ice is wet and shiny and water trickles down everywhere. water drips down into the sea everywhere. then you can see how fast it goes because.

all of us are back has travelled the west coast of greenland with this camera four thousand kilometers in a rabbit in. his series of pictures in titled broken line of his breathtaking images. piped off to the king to when the ice floats on the water it sounds like the last rubbing together if a fresh piece had just fallen off it beats around you and it's gone for all it's done proud in mind when you hear this sound. the month of this is the singing of the ice. god and the power and especially the beating for. you know when you feel like your in a champagne goblet kay. becker was born in one nine hundred fifty nine in taba minda on the baltic sea. he works

with a large format camera that looks like it dates back to another era he says it's like putting up an easel and painting a picture. only two exposures are possible percocet so he sometimes travels with days to find a material if there's a hits when the film is developed it was all in vain. on a motorbike i used to be a carpenter then a graphic designer until he got bored. and then he headed for iceland and greenland today many of his photographs hang in major museums the world over. he almost always too is alone once two hundred kilometers from the nearest village he had a serious accident. the work from six in the eyes of what we now know about nonstop for thirty six hours because there was nowhere to stop and at three or four o'clock in the morning i had to drive straight north to the sun. it was just above the

horizon and blinded me and the next moment everything was quiet and dark after a while i woke up again and felt something cold pointy on my chin and i couldn't move. i opened my eyes and realised that i'd landed on an iceberg. he survived and kept going. on his expectations he often doesn't meet people for days on end no assistant no distraction he also shoots the photos himself. his walk to the entire length of four rivers in greenland's interior rivers created by climate change no where else can you see the results of global warming as drastically as here in greenland more than two hundred seventy billion tons of ice are expected to melt this year. thought for a bit like i did when i was on the analog isiah company the researchers there we went to the measuring stations and they took the data and evaluated it they were

surprised by these huge changes that exceeded their own forecasts they were shocked by the extent that. in greenland so much melt water is generated each year that an area the size of germany would be flooded under one meter of water. the icebergs are melting and otter because images testify to that. from frozen icebergs back to moderate climate zones of kenya where plastic can be found on the remotest of beaches off float in the middle of the ocean as a result you find massive islands of floating plastic waste talking marine life isn't that true and terrible shout. of course and a huge problem for kenya which recently started a ban on plastic bags despite this over twenty million still used here monthly many

of them simply thrown away afterwards plastic waste is no longer just an auburn as you it is an environmental problem throughout the whole country many communities developing new approaches to waste management and. on the kenyan island of some residents there have found new ways to do something to fight plastic pollution. their own town on kenya's long island is unique and. traditional. here on the indian ocean it would be ideally here. if not for the tonnes of plastic degrees that spoil the sandy beaches. a wide range of animals including tuttle drumming cows and donkeys or even die after plastic that washes up. early i must

a boatbuilder wanted to combine traditional construction methods from the day with modern materials and sustainable principles he decided to plan and to build a sailing boat made entirely from plastic waste. is really. part of cleaning. i've done hopes to market and persuade locals to preserve micha with his unique idea of a plastic boat. we need to welcome rain and rain need trees so trees were no use this because every part of florida is one piece of shit so you're going to have a lot of trees. in august king introduced one of the toughest bans on plastic bags in the wild even now using one is punishable by four years in prison or a fine of forty thousand dollars but plastic bottles for example still pose a major problem when the local residents organize the beach cleanup they collected

thirty three tons of trash. to turn their waste into competence for boat the different kinds of plastic fast have to be separated. in ashura the grains they need to flex that are pointing to an extradition machine. in a final step these horta plastic is pressed into a mold in the shape of a bore trim. they prefer subrogated elementary take the place of a wooden dream in the boat structure. some gray is the owner of the recycling plant and it's a great circulate coming to the waste we come here we process that separate the difficult and the plastic take out the non-usable stuff. and ali and his team are doing a fantastic job putting together and what's even more important we're not cutting down the trees we're not coming down fifty old trees that normally would make

a book like this the honey as well as the day and they say will be made entirely out of recycled plastic bags bottles and approximately two hundred thousand and fifty laps in late twenty eight. we stopped only it's made in johnny a five thousand mile trip to south africa if it proves he was saying it could jump start a new local industry and preserve an important part of king and cultural heritage. on this week's show we learned about recycling up cycling and we use truly particle solutions to today's environmental problems thanks for watching call africa hope you'll join us again next week it's bye bye from melting in lagos nigeria see you next week xan that's right we'll look forward to having you back with us for our next edition of our palm african and european environmentalists so if you have any questions don't hesitate to knock on to our website or send us

a tweet that's how we wrap up the saw today from here in nairobi kenya it's goodbye for now. thank you.

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