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RANGELAND DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO LARGE AREAS OF SOMALIA.

Speke’s gazelle is a very rare small antelope that is similar in appearance to the Thomson’s gazelle encountered by tourists on the Serengeti Plains in Tanzania. It inhabits a 20-40 km wide grassy plain along much of Somalia’s coast. In the mid 80’s it also occurred in the northern Ogaden of eastern Ethiopia. cc-by-sa-2.0. FlickreviewR … Continue reading RANGELAND DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO LARGE AREAS OF SOMALIA. →

FREE DOWNLOADS OF HARD-TO-GET DOCUMENTS ON THE RANGELANDS OF SOUTHERN SOMALIA

Featured image: Densities of goats November / December 1983 This announces the availability of free downloads of hard-to-find documents on the rangelands of Southern Somalia, an area larger than Great Britain. These include 2 published papers, 15 reports and 87 maps. Twenty-six of the maps compare wet and dry season densities of dynamic resources, including … Continue reading FREE DOWNLOADS OF HARD-TO-GET DOCUMENTS ON THE RANGELANDS OF SOUTHERN SOMALIA →

Free Downloads of Documents on Central Somalia Rangelands

Featured image: Large trucks provided the primary transport for pastoralists and villagers within the Central Rangelands. Boards resting on the upright sides of the truck separated people (above) from small stock and other cargo (below). A fourth set of free downloads of hard-to-find documents on the Central Rangelands of Somalia’s is now available. This installment … Continue reading Free Downloads of Documents on Central Somalia Rangelands →

Free Downloads on Central Somalia Rangelands

Featured image: A village in Central Somalia A third set of free downloads on the rangelands of Central Somalia is now available. This installment includes five reports, ten maps, and seven published papers on rangeland ecology and development https://storiesofeastafrica.com/?page_id=4116

HE WALKED WITH ELEPHANTS–A TRIBUTE TO IAIN DOUGLAS-HAMILTON

Featured image: Iain Douglas-Hamilton with Save the Elephants Foundation’s Cessna in Samburu National Park, Kenya. (File: Iain Douglas-Hamilton.jpg-Wikipedia Commons) By Ted Schmitt Senior Director, Conservation at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Editor’s note: Over the years I’ve known a number of individuals who became “movers and shakers” in understanding and conserving Africa’s wildlife. One was … Continue reading HE WALKED WITH ELEPHANTS–A TRIBUTE TO IAIN DOUGLAS-HAMILTON →

FREE DOWNLOADS OF CENTRAL SOMALIA RANGELAND DOCUMENTS–2nd Installment

A second set of free downloads of hard-to-obtain documents on the rangelands of Central Somalia is now available. This installment includes survey and research results produced by the Central Rangelands Development Project https://storiesofeastafrica.com/reports-by-somalia-crdp/. Reports by other agencies will follow in future texts.

CLOSE CALL WITH A LEOPARD–PART II

This story is a continuation of the previous post (see below). Featured image: Clary Palmer-Wilson. (Artist: Gregg Davies) It was late in the afternoon and shadows were lengthening before Musa, Clary’s gun bearer, exhausted from his ordeal, stumbled into the house of Clary’s father in Tanga. “Your son has been attacked by a leopard and … Continue reading CLOSE CALL WITH A LEOPARD–PART II →

CLOSE CALL WITH A LEOPARD

(Featured image by David Bygott) INTRODUCTION This is the story of Clary Palmer-Wilson, born in Nairobi, East Africa in 1907. At the age of 14 he began earning his livelihood as a hunter in the East African bush where dangers lurked everywhere and mistakes carried severe consequences. Unable to survive by hunting alone, he tried … Continue reading CLOSE CALL WITH A LEOPARD →

BREAKING BARRIERS: THE FIRST FEMALE FIELD GEOLOGIST IN TANZANIA

(Featured image by Eleanora Robbins.) Tanzania’s Chief Geologist, Alec McKinley, regarded me skeptically from behind his large wooden desk. “You’ll niver go into the field,” he announced in his Scots brogue. It was 1964 and I, a Peace Corps volunteer (and newly minted geologist c/o Ohio State University) had just arrived in Dodoma, the headquarters of … Continue reading BREAKING BARRIERS: THE FIRST FEMALE FIELD GEOLOGIST IN TANZANIA →

RANGELANDS OF CENTRAL SOMALIA

REPORTS BY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH, LONDON. This announces the availability of free downloads for the first set of hard-to-obtain reports on the rangelands of Central Somalia. https://storiesofeastafrica.com/reports-on-the-rangelands-of-central-somalia/ This post includes surveys and maps carried out in 1979 by Resource Management and Research (RMR), London. Reports by other agencies will follow in future posts.

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