and very personal. very best features. to our hero max series every week on d.w. . africa coming up on the show. across the last we look at the good that's trying to stop this. as the march towards the capital and the. budget because. nothing grows here anymore. if it keeps. the people living on the roof.

it's great to have you with us on the show. it's changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis. that's not made in africa but it's already hits in the continental my colleague kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. it's a widely held belief here in africa that climate change is a problem for the rich it's also a prize and the fridays for future protests badly gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participated in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that it's poor an ordinary africans will most affected by the impact of climate change here in kenya had who are running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities. as desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments

however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sprouting all over the continent but the african governments say that they can't do it alone and they need the rest of the world to hold up their end of the bargain you have mentioned that there's it's spreading as average temperatures go up the well doesn't just get hotter droughts and dust storms also growing more intense our next report. on the edge of the sob as it he huge genes are creeping closer and closer to the cup it's only on me but some people standing in the way children and teenagers lead the fight this is. not far away from me on the bank of the river sand dunes have formed the field trip will enable the pupils to understand the phenomenon of desertification but we'll also see what people can do locally to stop the spread of the desert and to anchor the sander and

. the gigantic duno of such a ray i think gates of the capital niamey the pupils only want one thing to climb onto the dune as quickly as possible. some of these sand dunes wander up to 20 metres a year depending on the wind their height can reach $30.00 to $40.00 metres the pupils are overwhelmed once they get to the top. wow it's awesome i've never seen anything like this i've never been here before it's so beautiful. yes it may be beautiful but it's a nightmare for humans and animals so even if you don't want to stand there instead bury your homes you have to try to prevent them from shifting. with sand drift fences for example sonny yuba explains what everyone can do to help stop the shifting of the dunes the students are pensive. look after seeing this

here i'm quite troubled. as you had some point the sand could reach the town. that makes me afraid. there's only sand left here and nothing grows here anymore it's a real desert. she keeps advancing and reaches the people living on the river now and it'll be all over. the outing had a big effect on the pupils there now motivated over the holidays they're going to environmental camps where they will set up sandra fences and plant trees anything and everything to stop desertification. like you just saw him in that report sonny are you is like it's of director of young volunteers for the environment sonny welcome to africa now the young people in your project seem surprised at the deserts on the out doorstep how did you realize now how dangerous that is why i.

want to be number one. before we're going to need new. or well. well again it will most all people. or all in and on a stand you have a project this weekend it's a lot of festival when the faithful slaughter a sheep so what does not have to do with that's it because we had eyes that all wanted as most important that every year is like law den or 2000 on the. news on the only day off people really and she was so or people in the mobile or. on the seats that comes out to be that when so much or look at all on to the one thing and you force the news of. things. and that's why we

decided in lent i'm bent on getting it will is like we all do still it waits. and there was citizenship and it was it in a ship or mall now so let's keep on or come to the believe use the consumption would be the 1st thing is awarded because or winning in dignity is more like is not the mission or the illusion so people can awaited me all they have. it and also is people like act and elect ok. if france did it ok also. sounds like a very smart idea sonny are you as i could have their act of young volunteers for the environment thank you. and.

sunnies for. is just one of this it's of he's involved in another one involves a completely new type of still runs on the waste people are using. to defy the deficit. and environmental protection in action. xenia is learning from master blacksmith ebro he my mana how to build an oven that works without wood all parts must fit together perfectly so that the oven closes tightly and no heat can escape. ibraheem a man is building a series he just received an order for 50 ovens from the ngo volunteer no porn on feel. this oven as a tool in the fight against desertification because it's not filled with wood but with rice husks the husks can't be used for anything else not even animals eat on

it but i know my. every day tons of rice husks accumulate in the state rice factory it's waste with no nutritional value everyone who has another one can get it here for free to use as fuel sunny yuba visit schools to talk about the ovens importance after all trees and bushes hold the desert sand in place so this is about our behavior we have to change our behavior and our way of using raw materials we have to as you said correctly use clean energy and especially use power sources that allow us to reduce our use of wood what. the pupils are allowed to test the oven at home for a week. how bad my money bossa root tells his family how to use the appliance. well when. they don't. know we act and it seems easy to use it produces hardly any smoke and you don't need to use wood anymore that's good i want to try the oven

out properly. the new oven costs about $15.00 euros and the end geo also gives credit. and my next guest. is from the university of he's a study in the environment across south africa. thanks a lot for your time now your project studies several ecosystems which mostly drive not to get better that's what's happening that well we study it a transect. to nose on angola and zambia. and compassing all the different ecosystems. is. very diverse so we have to distinguish. well in short we real desert if you cation sounds as it's expanding in south africa and the maybe especially during the last 5 years there was

a perfect storm of climate change and intensified land use. those affecting each other wife is a nose venice human activities are expanding we see flora's disappearing. forests. and there are really dramatic changes really calls for action by politicians. down the river as drying up what concrete effects people live in that. well again a wide diversity let me take 2 levels in lusaka zambia several times where we experienced up to 48 hours power failure per day there was no electricity in the capital and whose city and the reason was a lack of rainfall and weston's arabia and eastern angola many months before and

that caused less water in zambezi river and finally ends a kind of riba dam so that the remaining water have to be used for agriculture irrigation to avoid food problems and no more water was a lot to runs through the generator systems to give electricity so you see there is a cascading effect yeah there are nexus being very different areas and more important in the country where people clear forests for charcoal they still believe forests are never ending however from our country relations we would say and 5 to 10 to 20 years the different groups will meet in the middle between 2 roads and then there will be no more forests this will be dramatic this will have to a metric economic impact and again must set up management systems dramatic problems not you know your goal number before you go refer station has

been proposed as one of the ways out of the climate crisis briefly as a viable solution. sometimes yes sometimes not a single it's over estimated there's a reason why is there are no trees in many areas because the soil the say lawn you can plonk trees there as a regions you wouldn't like to fill with streets is a beautiful africans of venice was older animals shouldn't disappear it closes event to open areas of filled with trees. all the areas that have been de forest during the last decades by human use should be read and again you need political activity to make it happen ok well no tad professor. from the south african sign. thank you thank you. that's it for now from feet up in yours africa you can catch stories on

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if you live in a mountainous region like the alps and you need to speak to a friend living on the next peak nowadays you just pick up the fun back in the day though you had to travel right down into the valley and then up the next mountain or you could blow your horn the alp hold out a kind of morse code of sound sequences which conveyed your message across the valley today it's soothing to just use music a we've been to the biggest outpolled festival in the world in of course switzerland. switzerland has amazing mountain panoramas. breathtaking nature. and a musical national symbol. out of one. and in each year thousands of a.