Neighboring countries. Hi sandra and hive us a big hello for me in Lagos Nigeria indeed the pandemic is far from over here have to unfortunately say but because people are staying at home the use of cashless Digital Payment systems has risen by almost 15 percent in the last few months i have a feeling that a lot of things are going to change in africa as a result of coverage 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green themes coming up this week. The environment needs volunteers to help more than ever nowadays will meet to kenyans doing what they can to assess. We meet and on the usual environmental activists from senegal and we will introduce you to a specie of antelopes in ethiopia that have been hunted almost to extinction. Is a famous on the streets of the senegalese capital the car for his outlandish outfit they singlehanded come pain to raise awareness of the Plastic Waste problem children dont know whether they should laugh at him or be afraid when they see or meet the socalled plastic man mode you for one of ours restrictions in my view cramping his style a bit but the environmental activists work is paying off and hes determined to carry on the fight. Oh. To feel has had to change tack in his fight against Plastic Waste with the world in the grips of a pandemic hes only 2 right now is his smartphone but thats not likely to draw nearly as much attention. This is what he surely looks like more dude its an account is mostly known and a plastic complainer for more than 15 years hes been going around schools neighborhoods in markets like this one in the car and stopping plastic bags for people once instead of work. Well some people are put off by his unusual appearance he usually gets his message across. With no doubt what a bad man he dont have this bugs you just want to show a little time a team to stop laughing and use this instead. He ties the plastic bags he gets to his suit to stop them from polluting the environment. Like many cities in the world has a plastic pollution problem i dont 10 percent of the cars worst is plastic best and most of it and up in the streets model for guys intensity to engage people in conversation is made you know goodness so shes already switched to paper cups. Maybe not explains that customers prefer drinking from them she announced talk to shop with them even though they are more expensive not all her customers want the she sees but she thinks drinking from the paper cups is also safer. Through an association he heads more do wants to achieve a 0 was sent to go and help people find alternatives such as making their own bounce out of fabric something thats relatively easy to do here so. I literally wondered if. Everyone can do it go to the fabric stand and buy some fabric ask a tailor to make you a bag when it gets a bit dirty you can wash it and reuse it several times its much better than using a plastic bag that took one second to make 20 seconds to use and will cost 400 years of pollution in the form of very minute good news as you. Will see or more duce passion for Environmental Protection began after he completed his military service returning to the car he thought the city looked like a huge dump site he had to take action people put he was crazy including his family but today hes. Wife lisa couldnt be prouder of water husband has achieved you know i mean how do you make magic in the beginning people will tell me he was crazy because the way he dressed up and its really hard to me and i didnt understand what it was so im passionate today im happy so happy now i understand and im happy to see everyone is talking about me. And that my intent is 16 the countrys president awarded him the National Order of merit more due has also helped his Community Plant around 600 trees and according to the slogan one house one tree its been a Long Campaign but now many have come around to do so we of thinking even the government is getting serious about enforcing the laws about single use plastics. Im not telling myself to stop entirely but i have to carry on the fight and push the authorities this still a lot to do with the city that i love it could take another 20 years before we pick up all the tapes of plastic in the ground and ill be behind the youth encouraging them to be an example in this. Piece of commerce one. Once the curtain of a rest restrictions or leave to do will be able to continue his work in honest in the meantime perhaps the growing awareness of hygiene will go some way towards winning the battle against plastic west. No. Morning coffee has clearly got the plastic mans message when it comes to waste hes an artist in cote divoire whose work 6 to highlight just how many cell phones weve thrown away hes already transformed fastens of them into art works that have been shown in exhibitions in africa and for the field so heres this weeks doing your bit. Its not easy to make a splash in the arts but if new does a coffee has done it his works are unique and arresting. And they give new purpose to discarded cellphones. Integrate old phones into my work to give them a 2nd life and to draw attention to the fact that our lives are so intertwined with technology or so digitalized that allows us to be connected but we should also consider the Environmental Impact of. New gets old phones from several sources what he cant use he passes on to recyclers after breaking them up he glues pieces on to canvases like mosaic tiles. In 2 years manu has used parts from around 24000 phones his works have made him a prominent contemporary kevorkian artist. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website. That does a tweet. Hash tag doing your best. We share your stories. The amount of garbage produced here. Hasnt really been reduced to despite all the many ideas and initiatives in that. Process. And its not likely to get better with this pandemic is it sandra. Well the corona virus is certainly having an impact although its not all but in fact here in kenyas capital nairobi there is actually west landing on the garbage dumps because with less traffic on the roads the west disposer trucks are getting through. Is that good or bad for waste money isnt it africa went to find out. In the middle of a nairobi residential area amidst the coronavirus lockdown this waste dump is just one of many in and around kenyas capital. Every day hundreds of tons of unsold rubbish end up here some of it highly toxic. People like richard king young to earn their living collecting and sorting the waste but they live in fear of the coronavirus. The law now what with what the people. There are 300 way speakers here. If they touch contaminated wasteful they wont wash their hands theyll do it in the evening at home by then their love already contracted the disease so now your. Volume of trash hasnt lessened despite the coronavirus lockdown nairobis roads are less crowded right now so the municipal waste or 30 can deliver more waste to the dumps than before the crisis some 3000. 00 times a day. But the collectors arent in any more danger than before according to Waste Management official here pretty much yeah no. Because of the local down they might be required to leave when all these. People have to be king and they will also become. Blogs and the people. For the lockdown means there is less commercial way streets in the dumps meaning less valuable waste that can be recycled. And a lot of supermarkets have gone over to handing out disposable masks and gloves to their customers some of that lands on the dumps or on the streets so the pandemic has increased the amount of medical waste. And that increases the risk of infection as daniel pattern holds he runs one of kenyas few recycling operations. A lot of mouth must glass hand sanitizers and that waste ideally should be treated as more dangerous weeds and should ideally be incinerated so the government has been pushing a lot for that ways to be incinerated so we are expecting that there will be some legislative changes and basically stricter codes or rules for how that kind of waste is generally mannish cities like nairobi were already struggling with massive environmental problems corona crisis has only made matters worse low and middle income areas dont even have Waste Collection systems in place. What is really needed is a complete shift away from that model and that ideally which doesnt go to dump sites in the 1st place because to professional sorting sites from the air goes to various recycling composting gas or other reuse or recycling mechanisms and then ideally then a damn site only its left to be used for about 5 to 10 percent of the waste that cannot be recycled. The Authorities Say that the massive catch all dump sites are already on the way out. We obviously need with management of 25. 00 b. N. We are out there that are talked about and there is regulator on. The guides on how is management to be done the only thing is now to enforce and ensure that people who wanted will now be mining though its. Nairobi resident richard can young who says its not enough to rely on personal responsibility and government regulation but the citys. Environmental problems need to be addressed more quickly. By the time the government identifies infected Waste Pickers as a source of danger it will be too late and since the neighborhood is growing on the way they should close this dump site permanently. Council now nairobis authorities have left the citys waste because largely unregulated. Now the city has 2 challenges to solve the environmental problem and the coronavirus crisis. Many of you will never have seen. Hardly surprising it is a very rare form of antilla up cooking is what the called locally in it in 1000 ethiopia in english it is known as swans to be used in the 1990 s. The subspecies when nearly hunted to extinction but the local Roma Community banded together to ensure its survival in part by following age old line traditions now the quirky population is bouncing back. This way its hard to be spent just a brief moment resting in the shade before seeking the safety of the herd. To be a star found only in ethiopia the largest population lives in the sanctuary in the south of the country an estimated 850. 00 hard to be slaves here. Almost 40 rangers tends to the antelope safety and well being chief warden tested so and his team once you keep the animals from going extinct yeah im going to be cutting down your mama you know i was young. Saw they needed special i think it will be funded by. Them from National Community even. Poachers used to be the biggest threat but these days its hyenas and jackals young antelope are especially at risk the rangers have their work cut out for them and the patrol the century around the clock and will shoot an attack in predator if need be their dedication a spate of this year about how for the young antelope survived. In the early 1990 s. There were an estimated 3500 hard to business here a year later they were about 70 poaching had become rampant even though the traditional governance system of the aroma people took takes respect for nature to put an end to poaching clan leaders agreed on strict penalties the rangers help win local people over to the system. If anyone. Caught poaching at the beast it will be punished. He killed human being. So if someone kills the heart of this one of the beasts he will be a punished 100. 00 cuts. But penalties alone are not enough to deter poaching. The antelope can only survive because the sanctuary benefits local people theyre permitted to harvest the dry grass that the antelope no longer need. It might not look like it but the hay is a valuable resource its used in town true for example local communities and the equivalent of about 180000. 00 euros a year from its sale. Gobble new couldnt. Because some people benefit from the resources. By cutting the grass and selling it. Now the resource is being protected. Unlike in the past when people used to build houses in the park on. Monday but bob. Over the years the sanctuary has lost about a quarter of its land to farm in an illegal settlement. Leaving only about 58 square kilometers that makes protecting the remaining hartebeest all the more important when a small herd left the protected area in search of water local people helped return the antelope to the sanctuary instead of hunting them for their meat the century is a boon to all both animals and people. Im going on working here and protecting the heart of beast has benefited me a lot. Of all i get a salary. And ive been able to send my children to school with that salary. And ive been able to send all of them to school. So that i mean the one brother you know nearly 40 species of mammal live here. Callous waves heart of the century has never drawn large numbers of tourists now the court of virus has put tourism on hold or did so believes the crisis could open the door to a new form of travel. Numbers. In good numbers compared to the. Location of the sun. So i hope. The future of. The sanctuary right. There were lets start focusing on the. Nature based reasons. As they wait for the visitors return the rangers continue to protect the animals day and night. No in march in building a house without using summit to make the concrete but taking a substance made of recycled roll materials instead sounds like a shoo in for an environmental magazine like africa is that it and it is a process which i young months from toggle is walking on in switzerland with a patna when the eco concrete is market ready it wont only be cheap but it will also offer a long time climate protection benefits as well. 2 men with one vision. And lead land and. One to transform the Construction Industry with cement free concrete with support from businesses theyre constructing a display house its their 1st attempt to use the material in their impishness project its kind of an amazing feeling we didnt think much of this this week its good to think. Because there was a lot of and we are quite happy to see there in. London has spent years researching cement free Building Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 8 percent of worldwide Carbon Emissions a more sustainable Building Material is long overdue landfill founded on construction sites where every year millions of tons of clay based excavation materials are disposed of but when theyre mixed with a naturally occurring mineral and water they result in a Construction Material thats more environmentally friendly than standard concrete or the corporate cement free of concrete is up to 90 percent. C o 2 production done compared to conventional concrete and the other advantage is that wed all. Like primary a whole much to you but come from a place and like crap on the inside and. In some areas in the war but we use construction waste the landfill most of the time and. They are much as cheap to access therefore like and reduce the price of the material. Of this earth concrete can be processed more or less like standard concrete but it currently around half the cost. Yeah the landreau was inspired by building practices in his home country he grew up in togo where clay or earth houses are a common sight in many countries in africa cement housing this. Kind of. Therefore you need to have ventilation system and stuff like this where i think. Theres a demand for the cement concrete in industrialized nations but also in countries where affordability is a priority including in parts of africa where millions of new homes need to be built in the coming years. Its part of our dream and of not. Being able to implement the north. African union a huge achievement for us so all enable people to have. Affordable safe decent and. Same time sustainable accommodation. The display home is one step closer to fulfilling that dream the good trying ones will undergo further tests as the 2 scientists work to optimize their earth concrete ready ready. So off to create sounds like a good idea for the environment now lets take a look at another example for the change for the better to the zanzibar in the indian ocean. As a result of Climate Change and the depletion of not sure resources. And good sondra like so many islands along this african coastline but the community of forests penned by enzio is helping people i adapt by planting trees changing their farming methods and keeping the the results i impressive we went through the time the island of the coast of pemba island to see for ourselves. Nowadays its difficult to make your way through the dense woodland in cocoa. 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist. And his n. G. I. Have brought it back to life. The organization encourages local communities to plant trees install solar panels build fuel efficient cooking states and harvest rainwater as a result the tums in the island has witnessed a turnaround. I reckon you bought it up to give somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of Tree Planting as i hear you know when they were. Some years ago the people of cocoa to use slash and burn farming methods leading to massive deforestation. Most rivers and the groundwater brown and dry what was once 1st tile soil turned to dust and people had to import food. The organization has planted over 680000 fruit trees and forest trees in cocoa. To make sure that the reforestation a successful local communities regulate felling. Among the people benefiting up beekeepers the trees provide bees with a well protected and shady twining place and a source of food when theyre flowering. 2 years ago saloon cutscene had just to be hives now he has 75. Because i cant do anything without a forest. And when you hang the hives like weve done here we get best quality honey its clean and the bees cant be attacked by other insects. And one on the war. Is now on the road to recovery. But the eyelet of new job just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. Like a hotel in the past has no clean Drinking Water and the land is degraded. This Tree Planting apprentice designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. But when it when courage them and help them in planting as well. Then when the rains come we Work Together with the communities when we visit them and plant trees in their areas for the purpose of ongoing conservation work when needed and