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Sahel The Sahel (/səˈhɛl/) is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.he Sahel's climate is similar to, but less extreme than, the climate of the Sahara desert located just to the north. The Sahel mainly receives a low to a very low precipitation amount annually. The steppe has a very long, prevailing dry season and a short rainy season.
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Drought Affects Millions in The Sahel Wide-scale drought. Late and erratic rains in the Sahel have hurt crops across a huge swathe of territory that includes parts of Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, and northern Nigeria. Farmers in the region have seen harvests fall by 14 percent in Burkina Faso and 46 percent in Mauritania.
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Sahel drought Originally it was believed that the drought in the Sahel primarily was caused by humans over-using natural resources in the region through overgrazing, deforestation and poor land management. In the late 1990s, climate model studies suggested that large scale climate changes were also triggers for the drought.
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- The tropical forests of West and Central Africa have the fewest species of trees, but even here the diversity is high compared to a temperate forest. Some rainforest trees like mahoganies, teaks, rosewoods and okoumes provide valuable timber, while other rainforest products are nuts, fruits, rubber and rattans.
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Temperate rainforest The temperate rainforests of South Africa are part of the Knysna-Amatole forests that are located along South Africa's Garden Route between Cape Town and Durban on the south-facing slopes of South Africa's Drakensberg Mountains facing the Indian Ocean.There are several coniferous podocarps that grow here.emperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive high rainfall.
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- Koumbi Saleh. For centuries, the Sahel boasted some of Africa's most influential civilizations. Anarrow band of semi-arid land south of the Sahara, the Sahel attracted both Arabs looking for gold from Sudan and Europeans looking for slaves from West Africa.The two influences merged with native ones, creating a culturally complex area.narrow band of semi-arid land south of the Sahara, the Sahel attracted both Arabs looking for gold from Sudan and Europeans looking for slaves from West Africa.
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- Koumbi Saleh. For centuries, the Sahel boasted some of Africa's most influential civilizations. Anarrow band of semi-arid land south of the Sahara, the Sahel attracted both Arabs looking for gold from Sudan and Europeans looking for slaves from West Africa.
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Amazon Rainforest Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest, also known as the Amazon Jungle, is located in South America in an area known as the Amazon River basin. While the forest covers several countries, the largest percentage can be found in Brazil and Peru.
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The Sahel The Sahel is the zone of transition, in Africa, between the Sahara desert to the north and the tropical rainforest to the south. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the southern countries of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.
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5) The three major tropical rainforests Much of Africa had been deforested relatively recently, and has become savanna. There are four forest zones – the Guinea forest of recent origin on the west coast, the Nigerian forest, the Cameroon-Gabon forest, and the Congo forest, which is by far the largest. These forests are all species-poor in comparison to those in Asia and the Americas, and many large pantropical families (such as the palms, lianas and epiphytes) are poorly represented.
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- Timbuktu. Djenne. Djenné Koumbi. Saleh for, centuries The sahel boasted some Of'africa s most influential. Civilizations anarrow band of-semi arid land south of The, sahara The sahel attracted Both arabs looking for gold From sudan And europeans looking for slaves From West. africa
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King of the jungle: lions discovered in rainforests Photo by: Bruno D’Amicis/NABU. Calling the African lion (Panthera leo) the ‘king of the jungle’ is usually a misnomer, as the species is almost always found in savannah or dry forests, but recent photos by the Germany-based Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) document lions in Ethiopian rainforests.
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- Throughout the continent, regardless of the climatic zone, meteorological records show that unpredictability of rains is a common feature. In the Sahel, variations in total annual rainfall can be up to 30 or 40 per cent. Even, the humid and sub-humid zones are subject to rainfall fluctuations of 15 to 20 per cent. In most cases, the rainfall is rarely gentle and even.
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Sahel drought The Sahel drought was a series of historic droughts, beginning in at least the 17th century affecting the Sahel region, a climate zone sandwiched between the African Savannah grasslands to the south and the Sahara desert to the north, across West and Central Africa.
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- The Sahel region: a belt up to 1,000 km (620 miles) wide that spans the 5,400 km in Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.ahel people with livestock and azawakh dogs. The Sahel spans 5,400 km (3,360 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, in a belt that varies from several hundred to a thousand kilometers (620 miles) in width, covering an area of 3,053,200 square kilometers (1,178,850 sq mi).
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Sub-Saharan Africa It contrasts with North Africa, which is considered a part of the Arab world. Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania are geographically part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.The Sahel is the transitional zone between the Sahara and the tropical savanna (the Sudan region) and forest-savanna mosaic to the south.ub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara Desert.
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The Congo Rainforest The Congo Basin Rainforest is located in the cental and western part of equatorial Africa.t is the world’s second largest rainforest. The Congo Rainforest makes up 18% of the world’s remaining tropical rainforest. The Congo has a short coastline to the Atlantic Ocean and is bordered by Gabon and Cameroon, to the north lies Central African Republic and to the east and south the Congo and Ubangi Rivers.
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What percentage of Ecuador is covered by rainforest? Actually, there IS a rainforest in Africa, it is located in Congo, along with other regions.
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Rainforest Tropical rainforests exist in Southeast Asia (from Myanmar (Burma) to the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka; also in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Cameroon to the Congo (Congo Rainforest), South America (e.g. the Amazon rainforest), Central America (e.g. Bosawás, the southern Yucatán Peninsula-El Peten-Belize-Calakmul), Australia, and on Pacific Islands (such as Hawai ʻ i).
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- The physiography of Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated a series of lowland basins, highland plateaus and by tropical savanna zones, which are characterized by a wet summer season and a dry winter season as a result of the seasonal migration of the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone).he East African Rift Valley System is an example of a fissure in the Earth’s crust in which the continent is splitting apart, causing an extensive series of valleys, fingerlike freshwater lakes and volcanoes to form. The map below shows how dominant savanna zones are in sub-Saharan Africa, in particular the Sahel.
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Backgrounder on the Sahel, West Africaâs poorest region Between them, the CILSS members cover 5.7 million sqkm of land. Sahel-like terrain and climate is also found in non-CILSS members in West Africa, particularly the north of Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Ghana.
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5) The three major tropical rainforests 5) The three major tropical rainforests. a. Africa: Approximately 9% of Africa’s land mass is covered with rainforests, but on this continent, the forest is almost entirely seasonal and in comparison with the Neotropics and Malesia, rainfall is relatively low, and the trees are fairly low in stature. Much of Africa had been deforested relatively recently, and has become savanna.
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- Case study: drought in the Sahel. The Sahel region of Africa has been suffering from drought on a regular basis since the early 1980s. The area naturally experiences alternating wet and dry seasons. If the rains fail it can cause drought. In addition to natural factors, the land is marginal.
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The African Rainforest Current Status. Most of the tropical rainforest s of Africa exist in the Congo (Zaire) River Basin. Remnants also exist throughout Western Africa which is in a sorry state due to the plight of poverty which encourages subsistence agriculture and firewood harvesting.
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5) The three major tropical rainforests 5) The three major tropical rainforests a. Africa: Approximately 9% of Africa’s land mass is covered with rainforests, but on this continent, the forest is almost entirely seasonal and in comparison with the Neotropics and Malesia, rainfall is relatively low, and the trees are fairly low in stature. Much of Africa had been deforested relatively recently, and has become savanna.