Saturday, November 19, 2022

Everything is dead: Animal carcasses litter Kenyan landscape as megadrought and climate change collide

Overgrazing and a historic drought worsened by the climate crisis has decimated wildlife, leaving millions of people on the brink of famine in the Horn of Africa, Josh Marcus reports

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As the Horn of Africa struggles with its worst drought in 40 years, nature seems to have turned on its head in Kenya.

Hardy, drought-resistant species like zebras and elephants are dropping dead en masse. Vultures are so fat from feasting on carrion they can barely fly.

In southern Kenya, home to some of the world’s most productive grasslands, bushes stretch for miles without a leaf in sight as animals collapse and die from starvation in the dust near Amboseli National Park...

Some 21m people are facing starvation in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, as the region experiences its fifth successive failed rainy season.

“We are on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” Dr Guleid Artan, director of the World Meteorological Organization’s regional climate centre for East Africa, said this summer.

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