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
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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