Plastic Pollution is a Killer for Camels in the Desert
I love desert and serve the desert. I clean the desert. I explore the desert. I know the beauty and treasures of the desert. I clean the desert once in a week and spend some hours with the nature in the desert.
The plastic is one of the hazardous product of the modern era, scattered everywhere, from mountains to the seabed. Deserts are also full of the plastic pollution. Whe the plastic is in the form of bottles, bages etc, it harms the plants and retard the growth and germination. With the time, the plastic breaks in small pieces, becoming more dangerous and hazardous, especially for the livestock. The socalled decoposable plastic is even more dangerous in my view. It shattered on a broad surface, usually accomulated under the bushes which ultimately make a way to the camel or thero livestock’s gut.
Once in a weak, I go to the desert, spend some hours and collect the plastic and through in the nearby wastebins. During such exercise, I almost collect up to 10 kg waste, mostly bottles and other plastic. I collect it in plastic bags and share the photographs on my social media to give 2 lesson to the people, 1. to not through plastic exept in the wastebin and 2 collect some waste from the desert whenever you visit the desert.
Here are some pictures of my desert cleaning activity.
Some bottles are glassmade
Before cleaning
After cleaning
You can see the difference before and after the cleaning
Covering the tiny Prosopis from the camels with the wood
A beautiful growing Prosopis plant
Another prosopis plant
Around the large and old prosopis trees, many new plants are erupted from the roots. Such tiny plants also need protection. I put some old stalks of the tree on the new plants to be safe from grazing.
I collected 3 bags of plastic waste from the beautiful desert. The scattered tinny pieces of the socalled decomposable plastic, this will go in the camel gut, so sad
The happy prosopis trees, huging. Cleanliness polishes the beauty of the desert
the clean desert
Article about camel
Beatiful cleaned desert after an hour of operation. Now it is a pleasent place to study an article about the camels.
I’m PhD in Animal Agriculture, currently working as a Technical Manager at Al Ain Farms for Livestock Production, Camel dairying, Alain, UAE. I had performed as a Professor and Dean, at the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences Pakistan (LUAWMS). I work on and write for the subjects of ‘turning camel from a beast of burden to a sustainable farm animal’, agricultural research policies, extensive livestock production systems, food security under climate change context, and sustainable use of traditional genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Iim advocating camel under the theme of CAMEL4LIFE and believe in camel potential. I’m the founder and head of the Society of Animal, Veterinary and Animal Scientists (SAVES), and Founder of the Camel Association of Pakistan. I also work as a freelance scientist working (currently member of steering committee) for Desert Net International (DNI).
I’m an ethnoecologist, ethnobotanist, Ethnovet and ethomedicie researcher and reviewer. I explore deserts and grazing lands for knowledge and understanding.
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AA well done Dr sahib really you are strengthen the ECO system
AA well done Dr sahib really you are strengthen the ECO system
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Thanks very much for the appreciation.
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