2. Desert Defination
The united nation has declared 2006 to be the international year of desert and
desertification. It is not just important to the people living in deserts, but the earth
gradually degradation is increasing at an alarming rate. Dry land covering up to 40% of
the earth surface, and more than 110 countries are potentially at risk.
3. There are about 2,50,000 species of plants which
include trees, herbs, shrubs, bushes, grasses, When it rains, cactuses and other succulent
creepers, ferns and mosses, algae and sea weeds, (juicy) plants take up as much water as
as well as microscopic plants. They can be possible and store it in their leaves and stems
further distinguished according to their habitat, which will provide the water they need during
use and peculiarity as; Aquatic plants, Desert the dry months. Their waxy leaves and stems
plants, Edible plants, Medicinal plants, Alpine also slow down water loss through
plants, Ornamental plants, Carnivorous plants, transpiration.
Parasitic plants and so on.
4. he animals that live in the desert
usually have special adaptations that allow
Some animals of the desert are also endangered,
them to including the Lappet-Faced
survive the extreme temperatures and Vulture, which is categorized as vulnerable. The
conditions that are present in a desert. A World Conservation Union, or IUCN,
has a website which details the endangered status
good example of an animal with special of many animals at In this website there is also a
adaptations is the camel. A camel can drink section for savanna animals. The savanna is a
very large amounts of water in one day or unique
ecosystem that receives more rain than a desert
survive for a relatively long time without but receives it in large amounts and
drinking any water. then is dry for long periods of time.
5.
6. In the northeastern desert of Kenya, newly-
Himba and Herrero indigenous people living arrived refugees from Somalia are living in flimsy
together in desert Kunene Region Namibia shelters made out of sticks, string and plastic
sheets. Nenna Arnold/MSF
