Newsletter No. 45;
IRBMS; July’14 - February’15
Amlasole stream
Sahara, the world’s largest desert creates
vast land, which are now buried under
a kind of fear in human mind, the hot
the sand dunes.
scorching sun burning over vast 46
One can imagine that when flowing,
Lakhs Sq Km of expanse of sand,
these rivers, viz. Irharhar, Sahabi and
stretching from Red Sea to Atlantic
Kufrah created large fertile land with
Ocean. Water is the single most precious
green vegetation and bountiful habitats
thing in this land of sun and sand. But it
for animals that created ‘green corridors’
was not like that. Scientists found that
across the region. Apart from the rivers,
nearly 130,000-100,000 years back there
scientists also mentioned about massive
were 3 large rivers, flowing through this
lagoons and wetlands in northeast Libya.
It is fascinating to imagine that 100,000
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