Noble and south africa hazy how you dont today. Just grates n t good to see you again hello everyone and greetings from johannesburg as n. T. Said will be covering quite a lots of grants this week so lets take a quick look at whats coming up. See how the little ingenuity you can make a Wildlife Sanctuary an even more peaceful place. Build a truly low impact. Materials and use organic waste to great something useful and lasting. A 1st report comes from right here in south africa if youre a natural phenomenon are as spectacular as the sight of an 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 a lost for ever. Come 1st in south africa generally read 2019 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 6 breeding sites for the less a flamingo worldwide when theres water around 50. 00 to 80000. 00 birds breed here every year. But the species is under growing pressure as dr katz explains shes a field energies whos best in kept down. To the biggest threat to the litter from ingress is the habitat destruction or the lack of suitable habited which is partly natural things like the drought 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 to the massive rescue mission while auntie has picked up thousands of sheets and 100 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 6 weeks to march its 7 30 am and the lesser flamingo chicks are hungry the 94 fluffy birds are survivors of the come for disaster. Kristen haley has a hunch her will 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. Have to work without. Make sure that theyre comfortable. Right away. But kister and how colleagues are succeeding the freedom eek. Of baby formula eggs prawns fish vitamins and minerals is helping the kids to grow stronger. When they are ripe today weighed just 30 to 70 grams know each of the lesser flamingo cheats ways around 800 grams the biggest challenge now is ensuring these wild birds dont get too tame so Human Interaction is limited to feeding the workers also kid to a street address point people wearing pink shirts like this. To try to allow them to associate. With the color pink which hopefully will allow them to the. Future rather than with people but its a very delicate procedure and something we have to be very careful about because if we use animals then the whole operation that weve tried to try to. Do with their bellies full its time for the chicks to enjoy their outdoor enclosure rain and the money supply water supply have filled up come 1st again in the past weeks around 5000 breeding pairs up back on the dam so on this cheek school joined them. It depends on how quickly they grow how soon theyre able to stay outside. But were hoping the next month or 2 that theyll be theyll be back. Its really. Helped raise. Until then they are enjoying their time in camp town and encouraging turn of 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 are 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 your 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 you see in our next report. Struan clay have been used in construction for thousands of years both are often readily available here environment germany this rule comes from a field around the corner of the clay from a pit 50 kilometers away. The outer walls of the house are formed of straw bales coated on the inside with 4 centimeters of clay based plaster. Lime is aggressive cements aggressive bad for the skin 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 Harper has built a number of houses using straw. Nation but this is the 1st 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 for. You look into the shooting as we 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 hopeless new house is coated with a tougher line plaster the building is that 2 homes side by side hopper and his family all live in one of them the outer walls are one meter 20 thick. You have to. Busy have straw would have been enough in terms of insulation required by the Building Code but twice as much as twice as good. This 5 Story Building in the town of there is also made with straw bales supported by a structure of wooden posts and beams. That houses the north German Center for sustainable construction. Teaches courses on ecological building he says store is there for the taking in many parts of the world. India india for example its one of the Worlds Largest producers of rice and other cereals so the potential is huge it says. Plenty of crop stems just lying around and a lot gets burned causing environmental problems smoke and carbon dioxide. So if we can find a use for it to be there by the people for 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 doesnt assume back to weimar while the hoppers half of the duplex is still being plastered the other half has been completed and the onus have already moved in. With the mobility of families reminisce about the massive load of straw bales they started with 2 years ago they were determined to create environmentally Friendly Homes that can eventually be recycled. Enough when were going to that 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 in the foundations. 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 2 story home its like that today its 2 degrees outside and the temperature is very pleasant upstairs as soon as the sun shines we open the curtains and it gets very warm up stairs so 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 its just. The hope is half of the building is needed ready to. And in a few months time theyll be moving in. What a nice house returning to africa now would 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 when we see so 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 knowing for 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 us coming. In on. This to start with 100 percent just to stop. And the zebra also notice that somethings different its been just a week since the 1st electric safari chorus started doing its rounds and the lay world Wildlife Sanctuary as it probably is silently through the savanna passengers can at least go on safari with the sound ecological conscience. Diesel powered jeeps have until now been the 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 replace the power train removing the need to build cars from scratch but even so switching to electric technology is still a challenge so dissolution is 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 kind of and his colleagues are convinced that their revamped jeep has what it takes. To make everything new this got some small challenges i have a big faith that it will be so that it would be a 100 percent reliable solar energy is already used to power the large budget. 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 lodges fleet it cost close to 30000. 00 euros to retrofit each vehicle the team hope the investment will have paid for itself within 6 years. Ultimately the start up in visitors installing electric motors in the tattoos the highly polluting buses that clog the streets of nairobi so i think that the best thing about the tatars is the range that they drive and if you drive 6 or 700 kilometers per day theres a lot of them do that means that your pay off time for the solution and 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. This are extremely or very sound thats what live on a mode of transportation ill be right at home and scifi algerias on movie if from where this idea takes up it may become commonplace in cities around the world. A clients over the water almost soundlessly thanks to its electric drive system once the e boaters picked up speed it lifts out of the water. Senses on its sides help to stabilize the craft and stop it keeling over. See bubbles inventors and until fall under spring down to see the boats being used as environmentally friendly taxis. Evokes are promising option in large cities located on water they could help reduce Traffic Congestion and improve air quality. The boats are not yet in use but were trials in places like paris one bubble taxi can accommodate 4 passengers 2 on one side and 2 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 25 kilometers an hour the optimal speed for the sea bubbles. In the startup founders are highly experienced sailors who have set records but their 1st priority with the water taxis is not speed but Environmental Protection experts from the shipping car an Aviation Industries were consulted during the development of the sea bubbles. These futuristic boats on cheap they cost 140000 euros of peace. The company is managed to get International Backing investors from switzerland sweden and the u. S. Providing over 60 percent of the funding for the 2 founders still have to find saying theyre already working on new ideas such as the most of us with room for 10 passing just under tribalists ultimately but. Then how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send his a tweet. Doing your page. We share your stories. 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 money factor bags and other products but rather than cut down trees for the paper one enterprising group of women in kampala spending on a 5 security. Plastic bugs a record one site in uganda but not at this restaurant in the copy to come. Instead of plastic bags known locally as. The money meant he uses people bags to be very very Environment Friendly and we do not want to use the line contaminated and 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. After the cutting with them after the cooking we blend them blend them like for 5 minutes. They turn into a pole we pour them into a big container with what to leave them on screens we drain the screen through the fiber and they were to drain south through the holes then we hang it on the rocks to dry. The fiber is left to dry in the sun for at least 6 hours before its tons into hard to people the women carefully craft the material into a range of products these include pippa shopping bugs books and greetings cards. Produced. 5000. 00 cuts that they were produced. For us to different people come here they see their product. We produce and say in then. Income paula their main claims craft shops restaurants and supermarkets. These women hope that the plastic bag 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 i be a coastal village in ivory coast every night these men are out scouring the beach looking for sea turtles theyre wildlife conservationists. By morning they picked up around 30 baby turtles found in a nest. The tiny creatures will be released here near these rocks. West one 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 druggy spots where they can hide from predators. Like the. Turtles have many natural enemies both on land and in water. Thats not enough. In the sea there are sharks and carp and on the beach crabs birds 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 2 month incubation the freshly emerged hatchlings scuttle across the beach towards the sea no more than 5 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 and gone better be. Alive. I used to kill them i was a poacher i would sell lots of the lot 5 or 6 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 a sister they feel like family to me. The ngo concert days especially being for c m has been active in callback by the since 2010. 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. Maksim give a regularly inspects Fishing Vessels returning to land. In advance of depeche mr there are 2 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 the 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 see. 6 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 pace get again we know almost nothing about their lives in the sea thats where they spend 99 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 memory in 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 100 thats all for eco africa this time for now im zico 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 really enjoy hearing from og us about you im now inside me signing up from the university of nigeria in new south its a nigeria about. It. Reads clean up the sex phone operator or work her masters thesis on the potato from the railing to repeat. Not a turn on well if its more words it was from there. The true list. Must treat. Every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word im looking for nico is in germany to cut the. Post why not permit him. To suffer in simple our mind on your mobile and free. T. W. Zingy learning course costs me german made easy. Video. Any time any. Thank. My thanks to. All we can be the generation that ends it good malaria. So millions can live. This is the news live from berlin the end of an era the u. S. And russia abandoned a key cold war treaty on Nuclear Weapons and nato sounds a note of caution. We dont want the new arms sure. Each side pointing fingers at the other for ending the medium braintree missile agreement but both are calling for restraint also on the program wheres the beef
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