‘Mau’ is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is the
controversy surrounding the encroachment of the forest in Maasai Mara, but that
is just a tip of the iceberg. The depleting waters of the Mara River which has
its source in the Mau Forest is a disaster waiting to happen.
If not addressed urgently, it may lead to substantial losses not only in the tourism circuit,TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. but it could become an environmental disaster for thousands who depend on it. The effects of the depleting water levels of the perennial river such as decreasing vegetation are already being felt by the people who live around it. The river is the lifeline for one million Kenyans and Tanzanians and two million wildebeest and zebra who depend on it.
In an article published by ippmedia last year, Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) ecologist Dr James Wakibara said that large scale irrigation and industrial activity such as mining along the sprawling basin has led to higher rates of water extraction.
Increased forest clearance and cultivation in the upper catchments of Mau escarpments in Kenya have progressively led to excessive sediment loads and altered hydrograph of the Mara River, the only source of drinking water for Serengeti-Mara ecosystem wildlife during the dry months of August and September.
Consequently, both seasonal floods and droughts have become more and more frequent and extreme, leading to Mara River water flow becoming unpredictable in the past few year.Leading Swarovski crystalbeadswholesale Wholesale Supplierpandahallprlog. Other reports show that the annual rate of human population increase in the sprawling basin stands at three per cent accompanied by a 55 per cent increase in agricultural activities in the last 16 years.
As if that is not enough, Dr Wakibara says during this span, nearly a quarter of the basin’s forests and grasslands have been destroyed. On top of this, global warming has been linked to a drought that is gripping much of Africa - 'the strongest rainfall anomaly on the planet,' according to Dr Douglas Parker of Leeds University.
Both local and international scientists have raised a red flag against the current rate of growth of human population, coupled with excessive exploitation of natural resources within the core areas of Mara River basin. “Although the use of the Mara River Basin resources by humans is inevitable, its current nature and scale of utilisation is currently considered unsustainable,” Dr Wakibara explained.
He warned that if Mara River stops flowing, the millions of animals, including antelopes, zebras and gazelles which join the wildebeest in this spectacular trek across the expansive Serengeti savannah will die massively as a result of thirst. The Mara River is known to be a trans-boundary resource shared between Kenya and Tanzania, and this has made stakeholders to come together to reclaim the water, in efforts to ensure that quality and quantity is maintained.
It covers a total area of 13,500km sq, with 65 per cent of it being in Kenya, and 35 per cent in Tanzania Mara River runs 395 km from source to Lake Victoria during a recent tour,What are some types of molds? the World Wide Fund (WWF) launched efforts to meet and talk with stakeholders,Choose quality sinotruk howoconcretemixer products from large database. including hoteliers in the Mara River Basin, in order to come up with sustainable ways of conserving the water source.
In an initiative together with the local community, the WWF has facilitated the 12 water resource users associations in the area, in order to improve the management of the water resource. This includes embarking on tree planting, having nurseries and distributions of free seedlings to enable them reclaim the forest, which has a direct bearing on the river.
According to the team leader of the Mara River basin initiative,Quickly deploy high performance, high accuracy rtls using Ekahau Site Survey. Dr Seif Hamisi, the restoration of the Mau water towers is of paramount importance in conservation efforts. “When we started this project a few years ago, around 90 per cent of the families in the Mara did not have access to piped water, making the river the only source of water, despite the alarming drop in its levels. Human activities, including commercial and domestic, were all being conducted here,” said Seif.
The official noted that Kenya as a country is slowly being affected by the global weather change, due to neglect in environment conservation. “The forest cover in the country is not an issue to be discussed, and yet many people living near the forest are still cutting trees for charcoal burning,” said Seif.
If not addressed urgently, it may lead to substantial losses not only in the tourism circuit,TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. but it could become an environmental disaster for thousands who depend on it. The effects of the depleting water levels of the perennial river such as decreasing vegetation are already being felt by the people who live around it. The river is the lifeline for one million Kenyans and Tanzanians and two million wildebeest and zebra who depend on it.
In an article published by ippmedia last year, Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) ecologist Dr James Wakibara said that large scale irrigation and industrial activity such as mining along the sprawling basin has led to higher rates of water extraction.
Increased forest clearance and cultivation in the upper catchments of Mau escarpments in Kenya have progressively led to excessive sediment loads and altered hydrograph of the Mara River, the only source of drinking water for Serengeti-Mara ecosystem wildlife during the dry months of August and September.
Consequently, both seasonal floods and droughts have become more and more frequent and extreme, leading to Mara River water flow becoming unpredictable in the past few year.Leading Swarovski crystalbeadswholesale Wholesale Supplierpandahallprlog. Other reports show that the annual rate of human population increase in the sprawling basin stands at three per cent accompanied by a 55 per cent increase in agricultural activities in the last 16 years.
As if that is not enough, Dr Wakibara says during this span, nearly a quarter of the basin’s forests and grasslands have been destroyed. On top of this, global warming has been linked to a drought that is gripping much of Africa - 'the strongest rainfall anomaly on the planet,' according to Dr Douglas Parker of Leeds University.
Both local and international scientists have raised a red flag against the current rate of growth of human population, coupled with excessive exploitation of natural resources within the core areas of Mara River basin. “Although the use of the Mara River Basin resources by humans is inevitable, its current nature and scale of utilisation is currently considered unsustainable,” Dr Wakibara explained.
He warned that if Mara River stops flowing, the millions of animals, including antelopes, zebras and gazelles which join the wildebeest in this spectacular trek across the expansive Serengeti savannah will die massively as a result of thirst. The Mara River is known to be a trans-boundary resource shared between Kenya and Tanzania, and this has made stakeholders to come together to reclaim the water, in efforts to ensure that quality and quantity is maintained.
It covers a total area of 13,500km sq, with 65 per cent of it being in Kenya, and 35 per cent in Tanzania Mara River runs 395 km from source to Lake Victoria during a recent tour,What are some types of molds? the World Wide Fund (WWF) launched efforts to meet and talk with stakeholders,Choose quality sinotruk howoconcretemixer products from large database. including hoteliers in the Mara River Basin, in order to come up with sustainable ways of conserving the water source.
In an initiative together with the local community, the WWF has facilitated the 12 water resource users associations in the area, in order to improve the management of the water resource. This includes embarking on tree planting, having nurseries and distributions of free seedlings to enable them reclaim the forest, which has a direct bearing on the river.
According to the team leader of the Mara River basin initiative,Quickly deploy high performance, high accuracy rtls using Ekahau Site Survey. Dr Seif Hamisi, the restoration of the Mau water towers is of paramount importance in conservation efforts. “When we started this project a few years ago, around 90 per cent of the families in the Mara did not have access to piped water, making the river the only source of water, despite the alarming drop in its levels. Human activities, including commercial and domestic, were all being conducted here,” said Seif.
The official noted that Kenya as a country is slowly being affected by the global weather change, due to neglect in environment conservation. “The forest cover in the country is not an issue to be discussed, and yet many people living near the forest are still cutting trees for charcoal burning,” said Seif.
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