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The Diversity of a Lunar landscape - Making Namaqualand Bloom Again.

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December 16, 2013

As rainfall decreases every year, with human and livestock populations continue to grow; the situation in the land of the indigenous Nama is a disaster for nature - and for the people themselves.

The sparse green in this semi-desert region of southern Africa doesn't grow so well anymore - yet it has to feed the livestock of increasing numbers of farmers. That's led to dramatic loss of biodiversity. Because fewer species flourish there, Namaqualand is turning into a full-blown desert. The solution is for the Nama to incorporate their traditional way of life.

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