Kenya Photos

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:29:45

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Amboseli National Reserve

Photograph by George Steinmetz

Watered by underground streams from Mount Kilimanjaro, the marshes and grasslands of Amboseli National Reserve provide a dry-season refuge for elephants that draw visitors to Kenya from all over the world. The savannas around Amboseli are also a battleground, where wide-ranging wildlife comes into conflict with growing numbers of Maasai and their cattle.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:34:26

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Masai Mara Sunset

Photograph by Linda Wilson, My Shot

In Masai Mara National Reserve two topi pause before a sinking sun. The antelopes are part of the rich tapestry of wildlife that colors Kenya.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:34:16

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Rhinoceros

Photograph by Michael Nichols

A ranger pats a baby rhinoceros in the Samburu National Reserve, part of the combined Samburu-Laikipia ecosystem, which covers 11,000 square miles (30,000 square kilometers).

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:34:03

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Wildebeests

Photograph by Murray Macdonald, My Shot

Wildebeests surge into a river in Kenya. Healthy populations of predators in the Serengeti-Mara region rely on this keystone species, thought to number around 1.2 million. These members of the antelope family bring life to the African plains, renewing the grasslands with their wide-ranging grazing and droppings.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:33:50

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Leopard

Photograph by Brian Helmuth, My Shot

Awakened from a nap, a leopard climbs down a tree in Masai Mara National Reserve. As recently as 2006, impoverished hunters, part of an exploding human population, were poaching up to 200,000 wild animals a year in the Serengeti, most of them wildebeests. A crackdown on poaching has allowed some decimated species to rebound.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:33:33

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Maasai People

Photograph by Wietske van de Zande, My Shot

The Maasai people of East Africa have always gone their own way. For them, each 12-month span contains two years—a year of plenty, olaari, that coincides with the rainy season, followed by a year of hunger, olameyu, that begins when the rains end.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:33:09

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Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi

Photograph by Ken Welsh/Photo Library

Founded in 1899, Nairobi was originally the site of a Maasai water hole used as a camp by workers building the Mombasa-Uganda railroad. Nairobi is the Maasai word for "cool water."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:32:53

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Mara River

Photograph by John Warburton-Lee/Photo Library

Visitors enjoy breakfast near the Mara River in Masai Mara National Reserve. This small but critical haven provides migrating animals plentiful forage and water during the dry season.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:32:06

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Fishermen, Lake Turkana

Photograph by Nigel Pavitt/Photo Library

Men still fish with traditional handwoven nets along the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya’s northwest corner. Fossils of two Homo sapien ancestors more than a million years old were found east of the lake, and in 2007 scientists analyzing the fossils set off a controversy by theorizing that the two species had lived side by side in the region for around half a million years—and hadn’t evolved one from the other, as previously thought.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-11 15:31:57

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Flamingos, Lake Magadi

Photograph by Bobby Haas

As many as four million lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) live on the lakes scattered along Africa’s Great Rift Valley. The three-foot-tall (one-meter-tall) birds, the smallest of five flamingo species, live here in greater numbers than anywhere else on Earth.

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