to join us for an exciting exploration of everything in between moses video and audio production, 5 d w. i hope that you will tune in the hello everybody and welcome to a new addition of a co africa. the environment show brought to you by mtv and uganda. gymnast dw, and charles tv, rock ca nights, area. i am crystal loans. and here's my co host son drive in uganda. hi grease. hello. everybody is good to have you back with gold. some exciting reports about environmental protection. and sustainability coming up here is

a quick look at some of the topics that will be exploring today. what met this someone in the good incentive goals such a unique bias, l y, the number of cobble a bikes on the streets of germany is set to will bend. how a phone go. we point should 5. even let's see, plant in king a pulse for full takes us through africa as west coast, sine to save. every gotten a generates a stat green $1100000.00 tons of plastic waste book, only 5 percent of that is collected and recycled. that's a pretty shocking finger. well, there is hope, a number of grassroots organizations coming together to see how they can make a difference. let's take a look of the beach cleanup is going to be back breaking work

similarly and listened future. well, this is a mission. what a difference these volunteers on prime from beach east of gun is capital across, and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan this salting, measuring and cancelling all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these clean ups, hopefully with volunteers from nearby communities. so when valencia come around community members speak to shoes. if you have any issues. if applicant plastics are clearly plastics, if you're picking them to pace, you quickly to face this. we are able to separate the reset cloud both from the non reset. that was because we want to the most states and they'll come in and see that they can be some value from these things. what i've done, finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as a cross call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps with only a tiny fraction of the city's trash being properly collected and recycled. besides,

poisoning the land, the deputies flushed into the ocean, breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the classic echo systems. and it's from places like color like good that a big deal of the trash wash is down to prime from beach red plastic punch is working as they see the data collection a form of citizen science as a way out of the mess we uh, when docs in between us, hello not not the solution for the plastic solution minutes because this happened in this high side, they'll be much less coming in power by stuff that's a very good activity to pull its relevance visa. then once we have posted tracy onto the, is the one the sound, what the police on what this polluted and also which brian this which campaign yourself. what do you think by collecting these weights that we are able to understand by analyzing what the surface of this for defense could be,

where we on the cell where the surface would be. and that is where we have an attack on direct our awareness accidents and also solution finding f $100.00. the data quite whose team can begin the crucial next phase. helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and to figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we are able to tell where the waste is coming from and the type of ways that is coming into the show and then the ones that i really say couple. and then the ones that i normally say couple. so this informed is as the assembly how to plan for the management of the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts a come back moraine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data

from from beach and gun. as a microcosm of world wide problem, it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash into the sea . most of its indestructible plastic, as some estimates, say, the rate of increase the triple in the coming decades. the u. n. environment program says the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic of the things to groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to us guidelines. the data loaded onto a un platform containing the world's largest citizen science. thank us that and let's officials of governance, the technical service study effort. this very useful that when you came in to the beach, they also compiling data that would let policy make us appreciate the value of the

activity one. to also appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms of nic for individuals. to the extent that one it doesn't encourage tarzan to um it's affects aquatic life. being able to present for steam beaches is of course also find sold a gun, a $1000000000.00 tory sector quote. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond and kennedy, quite group the hardware because only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. no, no, we understand the problem to solve it. so we need so new things we need political will. we need investments, it's a waste management system, it's what they need to package and we need them. so when this we are listening to the science, we are listening to the same and what the results uh given us when we make sense. and we need to act now and for us, of the citizen sciences of clean, the stretches from from beach and the trash data it has been load. their hope is

that if we overly understand what happens to the plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of all trucks. again. well, it seems pretty clear that shifting to clean the fuel is key to toppling pollution . what, how easy, easy to make the 61 liberal, who in london, a demonstrative a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved lost with vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources. and you know, way that benefits a lot of households wants the new solar panels off the printer is yeah, i'm assuming the street will be producing its very own power residents in east london. lin. much road spends more than 2 years working for this moment. and

convincing the neighbors to get on board today, that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something's going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it come to reality is, is kind of a relief. it's joyful, we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels that was go. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult actually to, to even persuade any one of autism. henry pollen done. 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street locked into a grid, but some of the roofs on suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households on lynn miss road are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer at the that action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here. then it kinda floats quite well with the

general public. given me ican nomic crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 octaves launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds. ready and spent several weeks during the winter and living on their roof and filmed it as a crowd fund. wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story. but it also is a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support innovative ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis, we need lots of parts of money which make it really upset the easy for people to

get much funding or to get properly subsidized to, to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations. what told me is that the moment, by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll stain off filming the installation of the solar panels. the 1st step on the path to us. so low road. the neva angela hoops the solar panels will help slusher energy bills, the dependents under roof. it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and i'm, once people say this happened, you know, it's on the started, they were, it is really all new stuff and of course, cheaper bills. so now these soon, the power time miss aust, stella rarity has that partner

a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the okay, we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time, so it's like 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generate to is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course it's really expensive on sunny days. and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the grants instead of sorry for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grid and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. or yeah,

when the rest of the street see this last 1020 houses getting the solar panels. and i see that you know that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not. hi brian, that just a couple of off his coming up with a totally pine. this guy did hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that . so the other streets can also get involved. hilary palin, down 8 of the hope this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city watts on is power initiative for a next revolt. we as thing in europe bought, heading over to germany with online shopping is a booming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bought in munich more and more parcels and now being delivered by a bike. this is why the city has set up a logistics hub because of bikes on this week's doing

a beat. we find out how it is going the electric to go bike can transport as much as a small truck. then not only it's flexible and admission, free means of transport. they're often actually faster than the delivery trucks that woke up many streets in downtown munich, put them in certain ones, the gun see they've given the amount of commercial traffic. and the fact that we see a lot of potential in a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. because i'm 5 companies have warehouses and the call gigabytes. it just takes hub. they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can provide law, small delivery. it says the call gigabytes with as well. now how much is that is

the subsystem minute we have so the stops that's manageable, it's all the fault of drivers are paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies when they're a $120.00 parcels, and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day. in the, our korea is kind of actually enjoyed the journey. what kind of falls on the thing is replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest find delivery companies alone could save 6 tons of c o 2 per year . and this is just the 1st step of an initiative that goes beyond manic cost at the cities have a similar projects we're all still figuring it out. i think it's important that we share our experience and learn the right lessons from it. so we're in discussion with other cities. we'll also work together to consolidate our projects. i look forward on climbing back to us. we can now and very different topic until

all too often chemicals i used to get the range of diseases and improve views, bought these kind of bodily damage to the environment. the alternatives on the age of kenya's only surviving. so people, when forest a fungal, we phone, a guest we is being developed in us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers grow well in kenya to well in fact, strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crops viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvests as an agronomist adult, as can boy explained if that part of the take, when i not it's kind of caused some damage to a planted pass in in the fall. as you can see, this move, it is planted by the time you have seen, i've tried to imagine the destruction it's already done because the say the cd on

the ground of the parasitic plot attaches itself to the roots of crops and then extracts nutrients from them. at their expense, they start to wield while the wheat flourishes. margaret keesa knows the problem all too well, which we regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for y'all's high ongoing measure to from what we've been struggling with the problem of which we'd for many yes. why weeks on crops, but the yield was a no good school follow. well, we trying to stop it spreading by sweeping, i'm dead brain and the animal waste human and distributing it in the field, but it doesn't make any difference with google math and sees. and i've gone to the whole lake. oh boy, no, we'll go forward to that from that's. i only harvested one bag of ways that came to me, but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebut them. doesn't make the money. i would be michael now, but to us and kenyan scientists have identified

a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective, even in tiny amounts, such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the tooth pick project door because kimball, he manages the projects tooth pick company for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills to strike a plot. i don't see within that research on the bile control. so struggling is interesting. i'm looks as far on this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's trego. it and h was growing to make them bound control. so initial non is contrary to what we do in this knob is multiply the fung us as much as we can. so that is can 25 to a must, that's can solve the fun lives in great capacities for the last 5 years. ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product it costs about. so to year rose to treat a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to

prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective and farmers are left with field harvests. that's why the toothpick project is supported by a number of n g o's focused on food security. this brittany effect of climate change. the app is warming before it was a warming, and we have seen dry got also moving even to some width as owns and to also some of course, that region if that these experience in the high production, 80 ascending means the food in security also is accept it becomes much more kenya, isn't the only country with a strike, a problem. according to the u. n, a 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the more important is successful. it could be introduced in other countries to. so don't because can boy is working with

a 2 farmers to help produce more fund going up to them. they could show a cube that's going to be produced. that's how i know. but i told you, you know, to now, to solve from us. i have closed this of in county, so we all putting in. so that is the reason why we were in gauging village, you know, clump produced stuff at the village level can have passed pretty fast. the final product production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow. 20 key, those of rice are cooked, and a small amount of fungus is added, then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate the resulting for to kilos. a fungus and rich dries are enough for one. a couple of crop land. the research is found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops, owings that was enough to banish the strike and restore crop yields for small hold is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. and

we and the program where we've begun the west coast of africa and we to migratory bots, folk to send a go and movie tanya on the areas where they clicked on l. protected were visited the lagoon they simona and set a goal on a real natural beauty on their birth conservation area. to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far. the bank grow forest of the simone nature reserve. all right, haven't touch for foster ray of species. the lagoons, mix of fresh and salt water creates a branch environment and a rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's home or it's ad, but it's a pre it's a natural paradise. but local fishermen on not to have negative effect in the like and be that. but if we're not allowed to

fish in the lagoon, then we don't really have any of the options available coming in some pressure. but i have decided to go out to sea and stay as i thought, i think i'm bothering it. i'm not really a good because i think i didn't want them. sometimes they kept something, but there is no in yes, any patient as in the nature of lane. thank you. so it's hard for us now. plus i go like an be more up again. you brian fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the age of the nature, reserve it during october and november. they're not allowed to push here. so the face phone and the group can recover. so code eco got make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough arresting places for the areas main bird species such as purchase. but last spring, a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that

they put play the pallet to lagoon used to have a lot of 9 golf course so, but mangrove would isn't huge to bond. it's often thought of as probably what it was, but the people here mainly use it as a full construction of what because they know it's much more too much resistance and then any other woods. so there is a lot of do far as a, somewhat over this is typical piece of data mit. so that example i can, the way it is, and as the band grows, disappeared, the fish populations decline to be the largest bodies showing the audio the eco costs have been working here for 10 years. they were employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a live, a lot of a growing number of the shipment have started finding voiced as to compensate for the period when they're not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors, discovering the inspect technically the bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough. the spots and a sprain,

a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every month at the locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income. the or not miserable if i'm to open them. you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation work for me. then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to the eco gasket. are they all 13 of them? and they come from the villages to help us. so remember that this is all vapor song organizations such as bird life international are also active. and the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges, elaborately finding menache repair. she lives on the backs of the lagoon. the main threats which are climate change related are erosion. and suiting the locals can

see what's happening. we conducted studies in aust, them what they've observed soon. the data f have it on pause. you own it. the plus specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger. that the concept really presided, because they say they've noticed the story that has become sandia and has a higher self conscious study z resolve. fabulous organizations. studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost to these problems is a load id. guess go see when we ask them what solutions they would recommend, what practices they've noticed that seem to accelerate the problems and that should therefore be stopped. they themselves said that it's due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy of the for say that i thought the nymphs go on is actually no cold, traditionally of harvested muscles and oysters from the shore line said bankrupt,

damaging them in the process to date, the oysters are cultivated just above the water line, so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the someone of who. but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains a protect area. the time is flown by, i'm afraid we've come to the end of the show for this week. we hope you enjoyed the program before i say good by. i'd like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you increase merry christmas and a puffy 22 people. thank you so much for the active engagement with the problem. we hope to see you soon for now do take care and see you soon. i the the

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