In the Air Mountains of Northern Niger
In March 2007 Jean Clottes and his wife Renee, Marc Azema and Yanik Le Guillou spent two weeks at Dabous, in the Air mountains of northern Niger, a site now famous for its ancient carved giraffes.
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Timia, Air mountains, Niger
Fieldwork mission of 2004 to North and West Africa
Film by J.C. Brito
BIODESERTS--Biodiversity of Deserts and Arid Regions
BIODESERTS is a research group hosted by CIBIO/University of Porto. It is focused on assessing biodiversity patterns in deserts and arid regions. The objectives are to: i) advance scientific knowledge on these environments; ii) produce outputs of high scientific standard and guidelines for conservation policies; iii) train human resources in desert evolution and conservation biology; and iv) communicate scientific activities and improve public appreciation on desert biodiversity.
PBS Niger Drone Base 201
Why and how the U.S. is building a remote drone base in Sub-Sahara Africa to stop the flow of terrorist from North Africa. Correpondent Mike Cerre reports from Agadez, Niger.
Niger's nomad army - 14 July 08
Niger's Tuareg population say that the benefits of uranium mining are not being distributed fairly, and a military campaign against the government is their only option.
In the first of a series of reports, Al Jazeera's May Welsh travelled to a Tuareg base in the northern Air mountains.
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Alhousseini et Sado, deux Touareg de l'Aïr (Niger) quittent leur campement pour rejoindre le plus grand rassemblement de nomades de la région, entre Aïr et Ténéré, près d'Agadez. Leur voyage en chameaux est une suite de bivouacs, de campements et de rencontres insolites sur un cordon de dunes.
A travers ce film, ressort toute la vie des campements touareg du Niger : le regard des hommes et des femmes, le thé, la taguella (pain cuit dans le sable), la mémoire des anciens, le puit, la caravane de sel, la faune et la grande fête traditionnelle que les Touareg organisent à l'occasion des mariages, naissances ou début des pâturages, avec les danses, les musiques et la course de chameaux.
NIGER (Africa) - from Tenerè to Aìr in Land Rover and Range Rover - AbacoViaggi
Un meraviglioso viaggio alla scoperta di un territorio abitato da oltre 11.000 anni
La Nigeria è il più popoloso del continente. Confina con il Benin ad ovest, il Ciad e il Camerun ad est, il Niger a nord e a sud si affaccia sull'Oceano Atlantico nel Golfo di Guinea.
A bordo dei Range Rover e fino in capo al mondo.
A wonderful journey in search of a territory inhabited for over 11,000 years
Nigeria is the most populous continent. It borders with Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north and south faces the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea.
On board the Range Rover and the ends of the world.
Sahara - Góry Air, Niger
Sahara - Góry Air, Niger
Why growing U.S. drone operations in Niger are controversial
Editor's Note: This story contains footage some viewers may find disturbing.
Over the past few years, the U.S. military has increased its activities and broadened its mission in Africa. In Niger, the U.S. Air Force has built a huge new base from which it launches drone operations. But critics worry the American presence will serve to attract more attention from terrorists and traffickers drawn to the deserted Sahel. Special correspondent Mike Cerre reports from Niger.
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wuestenschiff.de: Schmiedearbeit in Timia/Niger
Die Arbeit eines Schmiedes in Timia/Niger
Niger HD
Treck au Niger en bordure du Ténéré avec les touaregs
Niger, du fleuve au désert
bourlingue.net Sur un récit d'Alex Décotte, 55 photographies de Maximilien Bruggmann. Au départ de Niamey, elles permettent de pénétrer lentement dans le pays profond, ses témoignages d'un temps où le Sahara était vert, ses éleveurs nomades et ses ultimes caravaniers transportant le sel de Bilma à Agadez. Maximilien Bruggmann avait même photographié le fameux arbre du Ténéré, unique à 400 kilomètres à la ronde, renversé en 1973 par un camion libyen...
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spedizione a dorso di dromedario nello stato del niger regione dell'air
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Niger has long been a key staging point for migrants and asylum seekers from sub-Saharan West Africa, but the traffic reached a peak in 2015/16 when the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimated that 330,000 people followed the desert routes north - through often inhospitable country - to reach Libya or Algeria, and then the Mediterranean coast and sea crossings to Europe.
The exponential growth mostly came about because the chaotic descent of Libya into civil conflict in the years after the Arab Spring opened up new routes and border crossings and made it easier for people traffickers to operate in the security vacuum, but it also flourished because it generated significant income and employment for northern Niger and its largest city, Agadez. Much of this was from the perfectly legitimate businesses - in transport and accommodation - that sprang up to service and feed off and then further develop the migrant trade. The increased wealth was welcomed because it helped bring back a measure of stability to an area that had seen its own insurgency during the Tuareg Rebellion of 2007-2009 and which had been struggling economically in the aftermath.
But even as the traffic was burgeoning, the Nigerien government was coming under pressure from the European Union, which was keen to find a response to the alarming flows of people coming across the Mediterranean. Close to its own maritime borders the EU began working with the Libyan coastguard and others to refashion methods of deterring that sea borne traffic, but it also looked for innovative ways of stemming the movement of people on land much further south.
So, to the grateful relief of the EU, Niger passed new anti-smuggling laws. In early 2016, its interior minister Mohamed Bazoum ordered their implementation across the country, sending police out to arrest smugglers (most of whom, of course, had previously been operating within locals laws) and confiscating hordes of the ubiquitous pick-up trucks that drivers had become used to piling high with lucrative migrant passengers.
The new laws quickly began making a big dent in the migrant flow, bringing down the number of travelers passing through Agadez from around 24,000 a month in 2016 to around 5500 a month in 2017.
But there have been other consequences and many of them difficult for Niger. The economic fallout for the north of the country has been considerable - with revenues in Agadez alone being reduced by around $117 million a year, according to the IOM. Indeed the losses across the area have been so significant that the EU has had to offer $635 million to compensate those who had once made a living out of migration through a reconversion plan involving business grants and loans and other support, although so far the difficulties of qualifying for any such support seem to be keeping the take-up of these opportunities to a minimum.
Moreover, where previously migrants were able to move openly, they now have to use clandestine back routes through remote desert country to avoid villages and police patrols. This is dangerous. The UN roughly estimates that for every migrant death in the Mediterranean sea, now two die in the Sahara desert.
Meanwhile, community leaders fear that youth unemployment and the lack of long-term investment (notwithstanding the EU's struggling compensation scheme) to develop alternative economic models could lead to increasing criminality and insecurity. With the migrant traffic suppressed, police warn that drug trafficking is becoming an ever more attractive option and elders fear that idle young men who would once have worked in the migration trade could now easily fall prey to the competing radical attractions of Boko Haram or Daesh, which pose a growing threat across this part of West Africa.
So how to best assess the EU's apparent attempt to push Europe's borders this far south? Niger is rated as one of the world's least-developed nations by the UN, but is it now paying too high a price for Europe's anti-immigration policies? We sent correspondent Juliana Ruhfus and filmmakers Marco Salustro and Victoria Baux to find out.
Supersition Mountains from the air
Drone video of Superstition Mountains
FESTIVAL DE TIMIA 2013 PARTIE 1 DE 3 (8 AU 10 MARS)
DISCOTHÈQUE AMBIANCE PRODUCTION 2013 - FESTIVAL DE L'AIR, 9 EME EDITION
Students of Niger Say Thanks to GlobalGiving
Nomadic students of the Niger desert have little opportunity to progress past primary school - especially girls. The Agadez Learning Center provides a place to live, grow and receive the support to succeed. They express their gratitude to the GlobalGiving community for all their support.
The modern-day sultan of northern Niger
The last Ottoman sultan may have been deposed in 1922, but in Niger, a modern-day sultan is holding onto the old ways and claims he's a descendant from an Ottoman prince.
Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall explains.
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Entering Bilma
Bilma is the destination for thousands of camels and their owners each year, who make their way across hundreds of miles of dunes to trade dates, onions, sundried tomatoes, etc for the salt that is distilled from Bilma's salt pits.
National Parks in Niger
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Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary
Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve
Dosso Reserve
Gadabedji Reserve
Tadres Reserve
Tamou Reserve
Termit Massif Reserve
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A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of wild nature for posterity and as a symbol of national pride.
An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on
Protected Areas, has defined National Park as its Category II type of protected areas.
While this type of national park had been proposed previously, the United States established the first public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a national park in its establishing law, it was always termed such in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. Some would say that the first official
national park to be designated as such at its creation was Mackinac Island, legislated in 1875. Australia's Royal
National Park, established in 1879, was the world's third official national park. In 1895 ownership of Mackinac Island was transferred to the State of Michigan as a state park and national park status was consequently lost. As a result Australia's Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence.
The largest national park in the world meeting the IUCN definition is the Northeast Greenland National Park, which was established in 1974. According to the IUCN, 6,555 national parks worldwide met its criteria in 2006. IUCN is still discussing the parameters of defining a national park.
National parks are almost always open to visitors. Most national parks provide outdoor recreation and camping opportunities as well as classes designed to educate the public on the importance of conservation and the natural wonders of the land in which the national park is located.
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Niger: The Land Of Fear with David Adams (Trade Route History Documentary) | Timeline
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The Sahara is the biggest desert on earth. It takes its name from the Arab word for emptiness. In the dead heart of that emptiness there's a place called the Tenere. The Tenere takes its name from the Tuareg word for nothing. A nothing the size of France in the middle of an emptiness the size of the United States. It's no wonder the locals call this place The Land Of Fear”. David Adams retraces the trade routes of the people who call this stove-hot corner of the planet home.
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