Africa

Women in Ethiopia carry pots of mud, in the absence of running water. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Getting even hotter and no one cares about third world residents

The climate crisis is already here. For the residents of the poor countries considered the "Third World", there is no doubt the culprits: the rich Western countries. Not only do they avoid actions to prevent warming, they also continue to develop sources of pollution

Israel, the United States, Germany and Tanzania are collaborating to create clean drinking water

Cooperation between non-profit organizations and government institutions from Israel, the USA, Germany and Tanzania with the aim of building an innovative water filtration system using ceramic filters at a school in Babati district reached its peak when a delegation of engineers without
Map of lakes and rivers in Africa. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Struggles over rivers

Following and because of global warming, by 2050 there will be about a billion people subject to disputes and struggles related to rivers, and this only in Africa
The children of the Maasai tribe herd the cattle. Illustration: depositphotos.com

move with the climate

The children of the Maasai tribe herd the cattle Illustration: depositphotos.com
African Zved. Illustration: depositphotos.com

What about the anointing of kings and the exploitation of nature, p

The African Zabads are caught in a bar to extract the musk oil that has been used since ancient times to anoint kings. Is it possible to develop a more humane method?
One of the rainwater collection systems built by the team in April 2022. Photo: Engineers Without Borders team - Israel Tel Aviv

Water and education in Tanzania against the background of one of the worst droughts the country has ever known

A project carried out by members of the Africa team of Engineers Without Borders Israel - Tel Aviv contributes to the supply of clean drinking water to rural areas in Africa, and has been operating continuously since 2013 in the Babati district of northern Tanzania.
A stand selling Nile princess fish in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Image: depositphotos.com

The rise and fall of the Nile princess

In recent decades - after reaching a peak due to the population of Lake Victoria with the predatory fish that was not there before, the fishing productivity in Lake Victoria is decreasing due to overfishing and mortality due to water pollution.
Building the system together with the local guys

Israelis voluntarily built a water system for 5,000 children in Tanzania

The Africa team, Engineers Without Borders Israel Tel Aviv branch recently returned from a two-week mission in Tanzania. The project deals with the supply of clean drinking water to rural areas in Africa and has 20 volunteers from diverse fields who manage
Morocco: an oasis in the Sahara desert. Photo: depositphotos.com

Pisgah to stop the desert

According to the head of the climate services of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) "even when the amounts of rain remain the same, because of the warming water evaporates and the area dries out
By World Travel Tourism Council - Richard Leakey, photo from 2015. Institute, CC BY 2.0, from Wikipedia

Adventures in Africa: Prof. Yoel Reck of Uni' Tel Aviv paid tribute to Richard Leakey, the naturalist who died this week

Leakey knew how to discover fossils of ancient human species even as a child, as the son of famous parents, but he also cared about preserving nature and fighting ivory dealers, received two kidney transplants and a liver transplant, lost
Boys from the Maasai tribe in Kenya lead their cows to drink water. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A polluting controller?

In the past I have already referred to the need to reduce meat consumption in the face of the significant differences between the industrial form of farming in large farms in Western countries and nomadic herders, mainly in African countries. They are still not considered
Herds of animals in Africa. Photo: COLOMBO NICOLA/Shutterstock

Economic nature conservation

Animal migration in the Serengeti. Photo: shutterstock

Extinct wanderers

Miners in the Kimberley diamond mine in South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. Photo: from Wikipedia - public domain

Earth Day: The role of colonialism in the overexploitation of natural resources

The trash tree, which grows in the deserts of Namibia and is used by the San people (Bushmen) to make arrows. Photo: shutterstock

Arrowhead as a measure of global warming

Sport hunting, once was legitimate, today it is not. Illustration: shutterstock

The sport hunting of a mayoral candidate - legal but immoral

A woman and child from the Baka tribe in Cameroon. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Protecting forests with the help of native forest dwellers

Tourists on safari in Kenya. From Wikipedia

The herbivores in Kenya are in danger

Africa. FROM PIXABAY.COM

The wildlife people

The Sahel region on the map of Africa. From Wikipedia

Bipolar hunger

Elephant carcasses slaughtered in illegal poaching to sell their ivory. From Wikipedia

vile trade

Narrow-lipped rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Game Reserve. From Wikipedia

A disturbed and damaged crater

Protest march against xenophobia, South Africa, April 2015 Photo: from Wikipedia

Six billion in Africa

Africa. Illustration: shutterstock

Trade in carbon dioxide or land robbery?

Herds of large mammals cross the Mara River in Kenya's Serengeti Game Reserve. Photo: AndreAnita/Shutterstock

What would the animal world look like without man?

Herds of animals in Africa. Photo: COLOMBO NICOLA/Shutterstock

Saving Africa's Wildlife Part II

Iland is common. Photo: Hutterstock

The one-ton antelope hiding from man

Sorghum stalk in a field in Africa. Photo: shutterstock

Corn or sorghum?

Satellite photos showing the process of deforestation in the Congo. Photo: American Geophysical Union - AGU

Primates versus "development"

Children in a refugee camp in the city of Dadaab in Somalia, in 2011. The refugees suffered from hunger, following the ongoing civil war in the country and severe drought. Photo: Sadik Gulec / Shutterstock.com

Famine or ecological agriculture

Ebola virus. Illustration: shutterstock

WHO: The Ebola virus is out of control; 729 have perished so far

A member of the San tribe goes hunting. Photo: shutterstock

"commercial" hunter

Sunrise, as seen from the deck of a cruise ship on the Nile. Photo: shutterstock

The damming of the Nile in Ethiopia scares the Egyptians

A smart city in Nigeria. Screenshot from a promotional video of the Nigerian government.

First smart biomimetic city to be built in Nigeria

Lions in the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. Photo: shutterstock

super hunters

Ants in Bigodi wetlands in Uganda. Photo: shutterstock

The unexpected victims of global warming

Fairy circle in southern Namibia. Photo: shutterstock

"Fairy Circles" or just evolution in action?

Zebras in the Okavango estuary in Botswana. Photo: shutterstock

Big mammal migration in Botswana too

The White Nile Falls in South Sudan. Photo: Dr. Assaf Rosenthal

Egyptians are thirsty and not necessarily for democracy

Masai youths dancing (courtesy of Shlomo Carmel from "An Other World"). The young people were paid for the photo

Intellectual property rights of tribes

The dangers of global warming - the seaweed farming industry in Zanzibar

The eruption of Mount Ol Duino Langai in Tanzania in 1966. From Wikipedia

The Mountain of God in Tanzania