Find out more lets ask my cohost in nigeria hello neal to how are you doing hello sandra were good here and indeed its been wonderful seeing how life is slowly returning to normal still im also glad that im here that i reporters can finally travel and produce reports in their own countries heres a look at what youve lined up for this week the business social entrepreneur in uganda whos using recycled plastic to make protective ratio for hospitals find out about a new Application Form of Water Treatment in germany i would go to botswana to learn how dogs are helping to ensure that you watch you just i kill. We starve in south africa here to lock down regulations have been eased in recent weeks but the effects are still noticeable. Being away and nature reserves and zoos are struggling financially the current about this crisis is severely impacted south africas largest bird reserve the world of birds normally it is filled with visitors but those days its empty apart from a few employees and the birds of course. Such of the morning in capetown with a country still under lockdown this is generally not a lot happening outside its a different. Life some sharing because biggest bank is home to 3000 bags and. At this time of the day they only want to be fed. 8 am in the food qichen john t. V. And his team are getting breakfast ready theyre in charge of the hungry primates. This is about id say roughly about 20 kilos of food and it normally takes us our tradition of everything. We obviously always disinfect all of all the 4 years and so the cycle that they are preparing meals for hundreds of different species require a lot to walk and they are vast range of food Fruits Veggies meat and grain. The monthly food bill adds up 2170000 grant they cleverly took over 8000 irans local companies provide i dont half of that in sponsorship but that still leaves the power with a big bill to ford and at present they are not receiving any entrance fees to cover the bill the park close at the end of march because of the coronavirus pandemic many Johanna Treeck is why we are asking almost daily on on facebook and back a body for donations we are asking in the media for donations but the difference this time is that everybody is asking for donations and at the same time everybody is struggling for donations are coming in very slowly at the moment. Tanel calcutta its feeding time priest hes one of 15 stuff members currently on duty in the park employees 40 people from the nearby community but dont only a skeleton has been present you took it on a virus regulations sonny ties of mosques and social distancing all part of the routine. Its a different story amongst this cruel monkeys and green ted limos. The only one to get the best bits. Well the animals are enjoying the food. And rechecks even on the patience of the hospital the park also functions as a sanctuary for sick and injured white life such as these poor little creature or the 3rd one after birth that came in during lockdown because we still offer that service to the public. Whenever the little red eyed up that came in during the week possibly about. 12 days old or so face going to need some care from i for the next few weeks and then will hopefully join up with the others and be released eventually. And recant his team hope that local tourists will be able to visit one of my own so that these colorful and noisy sure can go on. Ok so now we had around 250500 kilometers north west of san diego where thong young people have come up with an idea designed to motivate the public to dispose of garbage properly so it doesnt litter the streets they added a cool slogan and the dunk your junk campaign was ready to go we find out how they are coming along in this weeks doing your bit. Many cities in west africa dont have enough public trash cans as a result litter often ends up on the streets. To encourage people to dispose of their rubbish properly camera from senegal invented a basketball game that makes throwing away litter a fun challenge an esteemed have designed a brain thats shaped like a basketball hoop than it is handmade by one of his friends each one both in like a fishing. Group in the bay are made by the local metal worker it takes around 2 things the finish one basketball bit 40 and his friends pay for everything themselves their bins are placed at public spaces so passers by have somewhere to dump their junk. They call their idea. Which means i score. I. We want in the habit of putting rubbish in the bin here. So for a long time i ask myself how can we solve this. And what would it take to get people to have the reflex of using a trash can. Thats how i got the idea of making basketball bins. So far for basketball bins of a place around the city of me i mean a 2 hour drive from seneca is capital jack up. The chain no plans. Im installing more bitter groups starting at schools. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our websites oh send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your best. We share your story. What a great idea i like to try and see whether i can score a point myself im always amazed by how much imagination young people here in africa show when it comes to dealing with trash problems recycling and reusing brings saves cost protect the environment and now during the current. We cant even help save lives exactly here in northern uganda i was cycling the company was aborted operations is not making those fields that are ardently needed in the hospitals all the plastic parts like the straps on the plastic west which often comes from the hospitals themselves. Oh. When you can gauge the works of gulu hospital in northern uganda on awards not specifically for favorite 19 patients nonetheless is a Frontline Health care worker shes upgraded her personal safety precautions. Its very is this fall and very important in this chain more they cant get close to. Her and. I protect myself theyre all. A lot of what he does is administer medicine mostly via drip she often has to throw away more than 20 empty drip bottles in a single shift disposing of all. Plastic is burdensome for the hospital but not for peter or cuoco and his team. We normally twice in the month and whenever we come to pick their waste we take about 10 sites 10 plus such that we use in our processes a quick code is a community and environmental activist and his Business Partner page balcombe is an engineer from the us together they founded tech attack a Plastics RecyclingCompany Based in gulu they had just started producing pavers and tiles out of plastic trash when uganda went into lockdown because of the cave in 1000 pandemic instead of shattering that company they switched to producing essential protective gear for medical personnel fighting the pandemic. We especially heard about the need for fish shields how a lot of the hospitals here in uganda dont have protective face shields for the doctors and so were like oh those are made from far from plastics and thats what talk a talk of plastics does maybe we can do something to help tucker talk to employees 14 young people to handle the production 1st they start by cutting the number material off the bottles then they wash them and leave them to dry in the sun. Then they shred the plastic the full melting and molding it into frames after attaching the screen and the headbands the fake shields are ready to be used. These patients they can be reused they can be disinfected in use again by the doctors in the medical stuff but if for some reason they get broken or like even the scrap that we have production we can take it back to a shredder and we should it bring it back to small pieces and then we can make new face shields new products from it again the face shields caused around 2 year olds 50 each cuoco and balcombe say the company has so far sold about a 1000 of them and for each one sold they dont need one to a hospital in the region. In gulu plastic litter can often be found in the streets. Tucker tucker is now working with major sources of such trash like markets and restaurants to get rid of it. So weve established a couple of mini collection points in different parts of and initially what used to happen is that the plastics would be mixed with other categories of waste and dumped at the landslide so when we made this being made from our plastic bottles it makes before realized that well theres been a specific reason for plastics. Are in position to like dump the plastics in the bin. But theyre recycling facility cuoco and balcombe attending to future challenges they want to share their likely designs technology with other recycling operations that too Plastic Waste could be turned into reusable products that would create jobs and protect the environment and could even help save lives. Whats a good example of how little it takes to make a big difference sometimes it is harder in germany a company is researching how to purify dirty water more efficiently and the best qualities the hydrogen created as a byproduct can be used to fuel cars sounds incredible but is actually wants go so far they are still in the test phase. The big cities generate a lot of waste water. Here in berlin much of it gets processed at this Sewage Treatment plant. It deals with the effluent of more than a 1000000 people a quarter of the citys population. The water passes through a series of filter beds. Within a day 98 percent of the impurities are removed. Nature deals with the other 2 percent after the water is fed back into the outside world. With poppy a dozen or so before we release the treated waste water we add a lot of oxygen to make sure theres enough in our lakes and rivers for the fish and other life forms. As you can see it creates foam but only briefly its entirely biological and it soon disappears over there is gone already. The process of purifying waste water is complex. Samples are taken to various stages in the process for analysis in the plants lab. The water is brown because it contains lots of microorganisms more than 200 species that are added on purpose so they can do their job eat up dirt in the water. When they finish their work whats left over is sewage sludge. Its then fed into bio gas digesters. The gas thats produced their powers turbines to generate electricity to run the Treatment Plant. Whats then left over is process water which is still pretty dirty it can contain compounds that produce ammonia which is toxic to fish so this process water has to be purified some more. We use a biological process to clean the water we deploy specialist microorganisms different from the ones used in the 1st stage of the process. This 2nd treatment step is complex and expensive. Thats where you ends hunger comes in. His company is developing techniques to improve the Water Purification process and make it cheaper. He uses samples from the Treatment Plant for experiments in his lab. For him wastewater is a resource a raw material and he hopes to make money with it one day. The violet light shows the purifying process is underway. It involves some pretty advanced plasma physics. This plasma coming come on the 4th and you can think of plasma small both of lightning which carry a strong electric charge that can split molecules in the water and thereby purify the water damage of those of us on i tunes from. The hydrogen produced can be used as a source of energy. It can be mixed with bio gas to create a fuel suitable to power a vehicle. This company van already runs on it the companys Test Facility can currently purify 200 liters of waste water a day the facility itself is powered in an environmentally friendly manner with wind and solar energy. The next step for graph force is to build a larger Test Facility at the Water Treatment plant itself. Many people think High Tech Solutions are also to protect the environment but traditional ways of life and the knowledge of will digitas people can also help preserve the endangered 100 tons the most forest in kenya is home to the people who live from and with the forest together we all get an injury or has developed with aids of using forest sustainably for example by sitting up and easily accessible behinds. This is dangerous work the people of the mao forest keep their beehives high up in the trees but the modest amount of honey these hunter gatherers harvest isnt enough anymore here in western kenya forests are being felled to make way for corn and cause salva fields. Who have been forced to cut it out subsystem funding to go to people probably is going to go out and lee. Like other kenyans because of the circumstances that has around us more and more of them our forest is being lost and the old to losing their land was normal Community Leaders have decided to breed seedlings so they can be forest theyre growing mainly native trees the preferred species of wild bees. The old yet have also started using modern bee hives on the ground in the a. O. We find opportunities. Even when they do that to kill us. Well when harvest once the new beehives are easier to access 12 groups of beekeepers have joined together to form a collective honey is a lucrative business. We dont have. Because we have so many just us isnt today the reddish black honey is sold out but theres still some b. Breads left pollen mixed with nectar. The beekeepers will also be able to sell this. People have started learning that these are not. Fuel that leak we are not trying to improve even because even the telephones they are talking about not such as they did want which is upcoming we have. Community of. This to have their traditional behaves. In the long time its in their interest only by preventing further deforestation well the old yanks and their traditions be able to survive. Well we wonder how can we reconcile the interests of the environment with Economic Issues or is a balancing act what the people in kenya are trying to do with beekeeping its also been tried by another initiative in botswana with dogs can you tell us more about that. Gladly sondra a local dog breeds are raised on trains to accompany their herds of cows and goats are shepherd dog the dogs to the predator of the way but not only that by making sure that he killed the kid the farmer happy unhappy farmers are much less likely to hunt down and kill predators like the endangered cheetah. Families in western botswana have to be vigilant summer in the grass itchy time might be lurking every year families like Jeffrey Moyer lose around 2 percent of their livestock to have a chance. To feel small who it is the figure is even higher as they often cant afford security fencing. Around fiftys and. Of course. The killer not only a paranoid term it wanted to but you got the dealer but it can kill several it when one does kill. To protect their livestock many guns had issues oh poison predators but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their heads to keep the big cats away. The families keep the local mixed breed dog which is well suited to the harsh environment. The idea was born at Cheetah Conservation botswana an Environmental Organization based on only a by farm doctrine economy a decent takes care of the puppies and raises them to become part of the herd and staying with them day and night to protect them against threats. Well. 66 the dog saw 4 in the. Turn to. Please more dogs and trying to help or for most of you who is who and in the hands on the other hand to do more she tours and was one of. 3 or 4 trained dogs protect the flock they presence and barking alone is often enough to keep predators at bay initiatives like this are part of an larger strategy to keep livestock from being harmed by wild animals. The Wildlife Organization also conducts research. Michele crow is the coordinator. She uses camera traps to learn more about cheetahs and develop solutions for human wildlife conflict. The greatest numbers of cheetahs can be found in southern parts of africa they are skilled predators that can reach speeds of 100 Kilometers Per Hour making them the fastest land animals but these days the natural range is severely reduced the destruction of their habitat targeted killings by farmers and the hunt for their fur has brought them to the brink of extinction. Predators such as cheetah their form the top of the ecosystem naked natural prey and control and prey of course also taking on their control as well as corner for us thats pacific a piece of it also high enough for example that is so generally has a Bad Reputation among farmers they very important day clean up carcasses and in this way also clean out diseases in the landscape. Since the program was launched in 2015 many farmers have stopped killing cheetahs for different moyo the program has been a success. Thanks to his dogs he hasnt lost a single goat in the last 5 years i appreciate why theyre. Cutting so i will be some people. Luke you. Said what if it were a dog to model. For the vast amount. Many species in africa still survive and coexist in non protected wildlife areas ensuring humans and animals can live side by side remains a challenge thanks to conservation efforts scientists estimate that today there are some 7000 cheetahs living in the wild and some of them their lives to the dogs that watch over the flux in the kalahari. Beautiful animals a teacher of other fosters land animals on the planet and can reach speeds of up to 100 kilometers but. Ive always seem to have spread by 2 but the good news is im extremely well be back for you take care of yourself and stay healthy until then im now excited way. From Lagos Nigeria it is time for me to say goodbye to you can keep in touch with us you can always find more information about the environment and when our website and on the social media platforms for now stay in touch and take kill yourselves i am sunda to no good here in kampala uganda good buy. Society faces a coronavirus meltdown is the crisis also and. Its focused attention on the problems of. Labor shortages overstretched health care. Internet access. Is it time for a major rethink. Made in germany. In 30 minutes on d w. Masterman some Plastic Waste german consumers carefully gather in separate unsafe plastics and there is still the biggest producers in Plastic Waste to enjoy rather than recycling it they export it why cant they give it out. Looking for clues and ways to. Germanys problem with plastic. In 75 minutes on t. W. Armstrong really walk on the moon. Isnt the earth really flat hafter all those the government use planes to please and us. Conspiracy theorists read like wildfire on the internet. Some people are convinced they are true. On account of small groups who shout louder than others and profit from a lack of interest among reasonable people. Scientists are studying why some are so susceptible to ideas that are out. Usually wrong and absurd and how the internet amplifies it all. Except when it takes a lot more energy to refute rubbish than to propagate it in the 1st place. If conspiracy theories can provide comfort you dont like reality create another. Film about knowledge and belief trust and deception. Democracy of the goebbels starts joyce 1st on t. W. From here. This is news and these are our top stories germany has imposed fresh coronavirus lockdowns in 2 districts in the state of north rhinewestphalia hundreds of thousands of residents are facing restrictions thats after more than 1500 workers at a slaughterhouse tested positive for the virus. Officials say at least 2 people