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The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders - Michael Welland |
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"The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders ", I choose to introduce this book because it highlights the important issue which's :desert, dry lands, desertification and a lot of things related to this, and the fact that Algeria is intended in this matter: 80% of the total area is desert, northern regions are facing sand encroachment, spread of Tuareg of the Sahara , and her experience in fighting desertification by creating "Green Dam" along 1700 km in 1972, and the Algerian Sahara taken appropriate area for testing nuclear weapons similar to dry areas in Nevada, Australia, Kazakhstan. and it has also hosted World Environment Day 2006 "Deserts and Desertification – Don't Desert Drylands!". Geologist Michael Welland mixes between geology, environment, climate, plant, animal and anthropology to reveal places of natural and cultural abundance, with rich histories. and the central to the discussion is desertification, also correction of some of the concepts as a term of desertification and desert. The book expounds the richness of nature in the desert: desert French,Crustaceans: (Hemilepistus reaumuri) , Xerocoles (sand fish, the palmatogecko, Thorny dragon, Silver ants ) and Xerophytes(Spinifex, saguaro cactus, acacia, and the desert date tree (Balanites aegyptiaca) contains saponins, compounds that could lead to cancer treatments). And many sections of the book dealt the peoples of the desert, such as the Tuareg in the Sahara desert, and indigenous people in Australia, the book talked about the explorers and travelers, starting from Ibn Battuta in the Middle Ages and Al Idrissi to Gertrude Bell in the early twentieth century. The book also lists the contemporary stories about the heroic efforts made by some people to resist the degradation of arid areas. Welland highlights Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer in Burkina Faso, succeeded in greening a large area of the desert, despite the government's resistance. He has used a method based on drill, and filled them with biodegradable waste, this attracts termites, whose tunnels break up the soil and encourage rain to infiltrate. In addition to mega projects, and often questionable, like the 'Great Green Wall' which is being planted across China and another will traverse Africa in an effort to stop 'desertification'. |
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thanks for sharing
Posted 07-02-2018 20:00
good report
Posted 07-02-2018 19:58
Hi nadjla :), you can apply in the next call for applications of 18th eco-generation regional ambassadors
Posted 26-01-2017 21:34
hii Abdessamad im from algeria too and i live in bechar . i'd like to talk to you if u want . hoz did u became a ambassador ?
Posted 24-12-2016 22:27
I have seen deserts in a flight to North Africa. These areas are beautiful to me but living there could be very tough
Posted 03-12-2016 06:33
Thanks for letting us know, Abdessamad. Like Heonjun, I have never been to the desert, nor does my country has its type of environment. So it was very hard for me to imagine the richness of deserts. It was also very interesting to know that 80% of Algeria, where you live, is constituted of desert areas.
Posted 28-11-2016 12:40
It might be in interesting as it says richness of nature in desert ....Thank u for sharing
Posted 25-11-2016 18:34
Thanks for recommending Abdessamed. I personally haven't been to deserts yet, so i don't know the vastness and tranquility you experience in a desert. I'd love to go to countries with deserts someday and stay a night. Thanks for posting D
Posted 25-11-2016 16:27
It does sound like a good book worth reading:) thanks for the introduction
Posted 23-11-2016 03:15
Thanks for sharing. Some of these are very good .
Posted 21-11-2016 15:17
Thank you @Arushi :)
Posted 21-11-2016 01:56
Oh! It sounds like a different kind of book talking about richness of nature in desert. I would definitely read it. Thanks for introducing.
Posted 21-11-2016 01:51