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|  | Kenya: drought and famine
« Thread Started on Sept 8, 2009, 4:38pm » | ![[Quote]](http://images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
A land renowned for its natural beauty, rich agriculture, and herds of wild and domesticated animals is reeling from drought and poor government response.
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« Reply #1 on Sept 8, 2009, 6:58pm » | |
And meanwhile, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and several of the neighboring countries in the west are suffering from the worst floods in history.
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« Reply #2 on Sept 8, 2009, 7:13pm » | |
Which, with horrible irony, could be a side effect of drought:
The last paragraph in the linked article:
Meteorologists predict rains will be coming by October, and they may even bring the other extreme from present conditions. Another El Niño cycle is forecast, which after years of drought and earth baked to a rock-hard crust could bring the opposite problem: floods.
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« Reply #3 on Nov 15, 2009, 10:31pm » | |
More on this topic. Click on picture. (x-posted here)
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« Reply #5 on Apr 27, 2010, 6:42pm » | |
Meanwhile, all of the fresh green beans of Europe (and some other vegetables) are flown in from Kenya until summer arrives. During the recent flight ban, Kenya lost a fortune.
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« Reply #7 on Jul 10, 2010, 6:30pm » | |
Here is a travel article from this morning's NYTimes online. Click on the text to read the full article.
CrescentIsland ... was created when the nearby Mount Longonot erupted, creating the crater on which the island now sits. It has grown in size because of the drastic reduction in Lake Naivasha’s water level, caused both by drought and the drainage of the lake by more than 100 flower farms. ...
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Crescent Island rivals any zoo for diversity: zebras, impalas, giraffes, wildebeests, gazelles, waterbucks, antelopes, dik-diks, steenboks, buffaloes and several other types of animals populate the island. And because there are no predators, fences or cars, visitors can walk freely among the animals.
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Lake Naivasha, at the heart of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. Matt Fletcher
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« Reply #8 on Jul 10, 2010, 7:38pm » | |
I stayed at that Fisherman's Lodge in 2003, so it can't really be said nobody knows about the place. There were almost no tourists. With my son, who had been working in Kenya, and a German girl, we went to Crater Lake -- by matatu and then on foot for about 5 km. It's a small, very green, lake in a volcano. The park there was completely empty of tourists and we walked around seeing zebras and giraffes. It was wonderful.
In the evening we went for a beer at a bar on the shore of Lake Naivasha and indeed you were supposed to be careful because of the hippos. You can't see Lake Naivasha from the road coming from the town of Naivasha because of all the flower farms/greenhouses. Already at the time there was talk of water levels having gone down a lot.
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« Reply #9 on Jul 19, 2010, 6:44pm » | |
When I lived in Kenya (1976-1978) we often camped on the shores of Lake Naivasha and bought provisions in Naivasha town. There were no flower farms and greenhouses in Naivasha at that time. I went back with my family during the late 1980s (still no flower farms) and stayed in a lakeside hotel that extended over the (then receding) lake. I love, just love, Naivasha.
I wonder how much of the lake is left now.
And Lake Nakuru? Anyone know?
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