Quite a lots of ground this week so lets take a quick look at whats coming up. See how the little ingenuity you can make a Wildlife Sanctuary and even more peaceful place. Build a truly low impact home using materials and use organic waste to great something useful and the last thing. A first report comes from right here in south africa if youre a natural phenomenon are spectacular as the sites of enormous flock of birds gathering to breed sadly Climate Change and other factors have had a devastating effect on many breeding areas in recent years but lucky for us there are dedicated conservationists who refuse to sit back and watch as entire generations of birds are lost for ever. Come first in south africa generally read two thousand and nineteen a devastating scene drought and a lack of water supply by the local municipality had left the dam dry. Hundreds of newly hatched cheeks were dying their parents abandoned them due to lack of food and water. The site outside of kimberley is crucial for this species comfort is one of only six breeding sites for the lesser flamingo worldwide when theres water around fifty to eighty thousand birds breed here every year. But the species is under growing pressure as dr cattle deem explains shes a field biologist whos best in kept down. To the biggest threat of a letter from ingers is the habitat destruction or the lack of suitable habited which is partly natural things like the drought that the dams just dont have enough water but its also like a Housing Development trying to protect these birds to actually breathe in the wild without any disturbance and with sufficient water levels and most important thing in this case the local community subtly did what it calls to protect the flamingos local organizations. Meaning stands together could be netted a massive rescue mission well known ts picked up thousands of sheets and hundred read them before they were relocated to Rehabilitation Centers through south africa for many cheats help came too late but the rescue mission wasnt in vain. Some of them ended up here in camp town fast forward six weeks to march its seven thirty am and the lesser flamingo chicks are hungry the ninety four fluffy birds are survivors of the conference disaster. Houston haley has a handful shes an intern at suncorp a major sinbad rescue and Rehabilitation Center every morning she and her colleagues need to weigh the cheeks to check their progress. After that they feed them which is not always an easy job. Sometimes they dont want to. Make sure that theyre coming. Right away. But kister and how colleagues are succeeding they feed a mix of baby formula eggs prawns fish vitamins and minerals is helping the kids to grow stronger. When they arrived they weighed just thirty to seventy grams know each of the lesser flamengo cheeks weighs around eight hundred grams the biggest challenge now is ensuring these wild birds dont get too tame so Human Interaction is limited to feeding the workers also keep to a street address point. To try to allow them to associate. With the color pink which hopefully will allow them to the future rather than people but its a very delicate procedure and something we have to be very careful about because if these animals stay tame then the whole operation that weve tried to try to keep. With their bellies full its time for the chicks to enjoy their outdoor enclosure rain and the water supply have filled up come first again in the past weeks around five thousand breeding pairs of back on the dam so on this cheek school joined them. Depends on how quickly they grow how soon theyre able to stay outside. But were hoping. Theyll be back. Its really. Helped. Their own independent. Until then they are enjoying that time in camp town and encouraging time no fortune for africa. As you know sustainability is a big topic here on eco africa and construction is one area in particular where good ecological ideas badly needed while in many villages in africa houses are made of straw and mud some of us may consider that Old Fashioned but it turns out that theres no impacts where youre building may actually be the way of the future its also catching on in places like germany or shall i say being revived but these new store built houses that benefit from modern engineering as we see in our next report. Struan play have been used in construction for thousands of years both are often readily available here in germany this rule comes from a field around the corner the clay a from a pit fifty kilometers away. The outer walls of the house are formed of straw bales coated on the inside with four centimeters of clay based plaster. Is aggressive cements aggressive very bad for the skin and while clay is a pleasant Building Material not just for house and its inhabitants but also for the people who work with it an. Architect florian hopper has built a number of houses using straw. But this is the first time hes designed a house. On the load bearing substance. The idea is simple but construction requires a lot of care and attention to detail. Youre looking through to fill the gaps between the bells in order to create a more or less seamless mass gods will. Have to. Play plaster is not suitable for exterior is it cant withstand rain and snow so hope his new house is coated with a tougher line plaster the building is that she two homes side by side harper and his family all live in one of them. The outer walls are one meter twenty thick. You have to harvest the amount of straw would have been enough in terms of insulation required by the Building Code but twice as much as twice as good as. This five Story Building in the town of baird and is also made with straw bales so supported by a structure of wooden posts and beams. That houses the north German Center for sustainable construction ditmar head can teaches courses on ecological building he says store is there for the taking in many parts of the world. Indian india for example its one of the Worlds Largest producers of rice and other cereals so the potential is huge. Plenty of crop stems just lying around on a lot gets burned causing environmental problems smoke and carbon dioxide. So if we can find a use for it and we thereby could keep the carbon in place. You certainly have to know what youre doing with this kind of construction with a little instruction for any man and any woman can master it. And thats whats great about it. And this is the sort of. Factor weimar while the hoppers half of the duplex is still being plastered the other half has been completed and the owners have already moved in. The one village two families reminisce about the massive load of straw bales they started with two years ago they were determined to create environmentally Friendly Homes that can eventually be recycled. Good enough were going to have so many of the unions use that if the next generation decides to tear the house down theyll be left with wood roof tiles straw and concrete. The foundations are talking fundamentals and yes thats perhaps the only critical issue but all the rest is easy to dispose of. And doesnt pollute the environment which. Is the straw bales provide such excellent thermal insulation a small stove is the only source of heating for each two story home. Today its two degrees outside in the temperatures very pleasant upstairs as soon as the sun shines we open the curtains and it gets very warm up stairs that means well have to think about creating more shade in the summer but for now when its cold its great that the suns been shining well see what happens when its cloudy for now its fine its a bit of an experiment to test. The hope is half of the building is need a veggie too. And in a few months time theyll be moving again. Chua what a nice house returning to africa now we pay a visit to a beautiful Wildlife Sanctuary in kenya the animals they are obviously quite accustomed to the sounds made by people camera shots his human voices and of course the role of engines as off road vehicles crisscross the landscape yes the its unfortunate that oftentimes are we sick to enjoy nature we bring intrusive sights sounds and smells with us but some improvements are being made about not only more environmentally friendly but also far less on the other inhabitants. The buffalo when this herd of here slightly confused a familiar looking contraption is approaching but its not making any noise the animals are curious look at this. Those guys who are sitting that they didnt hear this kind of. Age and. This to start with one hundred percent mr stone. And the zebra also notice that somethings different its been just a week since the First Electric safari chorus started doing its rounds in the les world Wildlife Sanctuary is it probable silently through the savanna passengers can at least go on safari with the sound ecological conscience. Diesel powered jeeps have until now been cheaper option and a dirtier one but a simple idea has now changed that scenario the team of mechanics at a swedish start up in nairobi simply replaced the power train removing the need to build cars from scratch but even so switching to electric technology is still a challenge so disillusioned as to try if we dont try how can we then meet our environmental goals that we have for the future because someone needs to do it if were not doing that who is that someone. There have been teething problems the battery that powers this cars Electronic Systems has failed and not because of the rain but. And his colleagues are convinced that their revamped jeep has what it takes. To do everything new this got some small challenges but i have a big faith that it will be so that will be a hundred percent reliable solar energy is already used to power the large ships. And now to power the jeep as well the solar panels will have to be double the number to generate enough power for all the largest fleet it cost close to thirty thousand euros to retrofit each vehicle the team hope the investment will have paid for itself within six years. Ultimately the start up in visitors installing electric motors in my tattoos the highly polluting buses that clog the streets of nairobi so i think that the best thing about the matter how does the range that they drive in if you drive six or seven hundred kilometers per day thats a lot of them do that means that your payoff time for the solution were very very short and perhaps in the not too distant future city dwellers in nairobi can look forward to the kind of cleaner air and quieter surroundings that safari tourists and wildlife now already enjoy out on the savannah. Its great the way scientists and engineers come up with new innovations improvements on previous models. That strictly operate sound what live on a mode of transportation right at home and scifi. On movie if from where this idea takes up may become commonplace in cities around the world. It glides over the water almost soundlessly thanks to its electric drive system once the ebuild has picked up speed it lifts out of the water. Senses on its sides how to stabilize the craft and stop it keeling over. See bubbles inventors unanswerable and under spring down to see the boats being used as environmentally friendly taxi. The votes are promising option in large cities located on water they could help reduce Traffic Congestion and improve quality. The boats are not yet in use but were child in places like paris one bubble taxi can accommodate four passengers two on one side and two sitting opposite like in a london cab paris was interested in the water taxis the boats on the sand are not allowed to travel at twenty five kilometers an hour the optimal speed for the sea bubbles. In the startup founders are highly experienced sailors who have separate codes but their First Priority with the water taxis is not speed but Environmental Protection experts from the shipping current Aviation Industries were consulted during the development of the sea problems. These futuristic boats found cheap they cost one hundred forty thousand euros a piece. The company is managed to get International Backing investors from switzerland sweden and the u. S. Providing over sixty percent of the funding for the two founders still have the final say theyre already working on new ideas such as the was a bus with room for ten passengers under driverless ultimately but. Then how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send his or tweet. Doing your bit. We share your story. Now many african countries are taking steps to replace single use plastic bags with more Sustainable Materials in uganda for instance people are making paper soon manufacture bags and other products but rather than cut down trees for the paper one enterprising group of women in kampala. But not a five security. Plastic but some recalled one site in uganda but not at this restaurant in the copy to come paula. Instead of plastic bags known locally as. The money meant he uses people bags and we are very very Environment Friendly and we do not want to use contaminated and not so. It is definitely reliable which is not only for us its for our children and for our grandchildren and much more. Uganda is planning to implement a bun on plastic shopping bags this year and to replace them with biodegradable paper bags he says encouraged a group of local women to start making paper bags using locally available but on a fiber. Most farms in uganda by then a fiber is considered the waste product but this group is using it to make paper from the cut they are using this is after the cutting with them after the cooking we blend them we blend them like for five minutes. They turn into a pole with a big container with water leave them on screens we drain the screen through the fiber still on top and the water drains out through the holes then we hang it on the rocks to dry. The fiber is left to dry in the sun for at least six hours before it stuns into hard to people the women carefully craft the material into a range of products these include people shopping bugs books and greetings cards. Produced and. Five thousand cuts that they were produced to put us in a different people come here to see their production many we produce and say in then. In kampala their main claims craft shops restaurants and supermarkets. These women hope that the plastic bag bind will create more opportunities for them in meddling them to expand their market and to protect the environment. Now thats a good example of how efforts to protect the environment can sometimes lead to Business Opportunities and how working together can benefit the community as a whole the next report also involves members of a Community Pulling together for the greater good indeed n. T. We know its a collective wazza here abouts a group that invests a lot of time and energy in helping newly hatched turtles get a safe start in what will hopefully be very long lives. Darkness has fallen in combat to be a coastal village in ivory coast every night these men are out scouring the beach looking for sea turtles their Wildlife Conservation ists. By morning they picked up around thirty baby turtles found in a nest. The tiny creatures will be released here near these rocks. West on where. They were born on a lovely part of the beach but there are many rocks there are places to take cover. So we relocate them drop the spots where they can hide from predators. Turtles have many natural enemies both on land and in water. Thats not enough down in the sea there are sharks and carp and on the beach crabs and snakes all prey on them and then the full sea female sea turtles return to land to lay their eggs in the sand after a two month incubation the freshly emerged hatchlings scuttle across the beach towards the sea no more than five percent will reach maturity the figure used to be even smaller. Of all their predators humans are by far the worst. Until just a few years ago sea turtles and their eggs were hunted and eaten in gone better to be. Alive. I used to kill them i was a poacher i would sell lots of a lot five or six a day. At night with machetes or torchlight often with the help of dogs these days when i see a turtle it feels like my baby brother or sister they feel like family to me. The ngo concert days especially bean or c. M. Has been active in call back i be since twenty ten. Sensitizing locals is one of its main challenges. Local Maritime Police play a big part in the project they supervise the regions waters and clamp down on anyone illegally hunting sea turtles. That just. Give a regularly inspects Fishing Vessels returning to land. There are two types of fisherman hes a good nations who fish with nets so sometimes when theyre fishing they catch turtles but they dont do it on purpose to move a lot. But theyre also librarians who use fishing lines when they cast their lines they can hook turtles if the Maritime Police dont catch them these fisherman sell the turtles sea. Six Maritime Police patrol here but they dont have a boat in addition to monitoring Illegal Fishing they also raise awareness and distribute special nets provided by the c. M. That enable turtles to escape capture. These divers have caught a sea turtle but their intentions are strictly scientific. Theyre marine biologists and will return the reptile to the sea in a few hours. Sea turtles are a threatened species the researchers attach a g. P. S. Transmitter so theyll be able to keep tabs on the turtles speeding and migration habits. Elicit place together yet we know almost nothing about their lives in the sea thats where they spend ninety nine percent of their time but its difficult to research their habits in the water. The Data Collected will help in planning an ideal conservation zone for the species ultimately ivory coast Environment Ministry cooperation with the ngo would like to turn the countrys largest sea turtle nesting area into a vast marine reserve. Its a shame that we havent yet discovered a way to keep track of how many of these Little Creatures make it to the ripe old age of one hundred thats all for eco africa this time for now im saying goodbye from Johannesburg South africa it was a pleasure copresenting with you n. T. Take it everybody and. That goes on me too but dont forget in the meantime they can always check in with us on our website and social media platforms where you can also send us your thoughts and your comments we may enjoy hearing from og us about you im now inside me signing up from the university of nigeria in new south its in nigeria about. After. One time a dog has every reason to smile. Michel restaurant guide has a more just his restaurant in vienna at its first stop. Its the only three star restaurant in austria. Whats the secret recipe. To find out. The roma. Thirty minutes. Oh boy. Oh boy. Whats the connection between bread. 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