The Desert is not a problem but a precious ecosystem
The Desert is one of the most important attractions in my life. Walking on sand gives a heavenly feeling. Today, I visited the desert, walked on the sand, and ate pomegranates while sitting on the sand dune.
I shot images of different flora and landscapes. I hereby share beautiful images to educate you about the desert, the creatures, landscape, and ecosystem of the desert along with some entertainment.
camels in sunset time
a group of camels fallowing a leader
They walk round the clock
Desert is the paradise of camels
They love dunes
camels walking
The camels roam and walk, enjoying the desert journey. The camels are healed with the desert walk. Based on my own experience the walking camels seldom get sick.
The power of calmness. A small dunes view from the top of a large dune
Calmness and beauty, enjoying the top of the large dune
You will need a cool long breath, panoramic view of the desert
A wide horizon and stunning beauty
landscape of the desert
The desert flora fix the sand dunes
The beauty of the desert landscape and ecosystem. The dunes are the artwork of the wind.
Zygophyllum, the strongest in the desert
The friend of camels, Tetraena qatarensis in Arabian desert
Beautiful flowers of calitropis flora
The grass have turned into bush in the desert
A microecosystem, small valleys big impacts
Resistance and reselience, fighting with the strong winds
Beautiful flowers of the calitropis
A healthy zygophyllum
Leptadenia bush
Calitrops
many beautiful flora
a shining and beautiful calitropis
A leptadenia bush is hiding behind calitropis
The Cyperus grass/bush
Tribulus flora, resisting wind storms
The desert melon, some insects an animals consume, though bitter in taste
Still you can find some grass varietis. Deserts were one lushgreen meadows
The beautiful landscape with different flora
The flora of the desert, Alain Abudhabi UAE
The termites and other types of detritivores consume the dead parts of the plants and return as a simple food back to the soil
You can see the power of termites digestion
Termites have consumed the wood in the desert. The Milkweeds (Calitropis) is very poisonous but for termites nothing matters
The dead leaves and branches returned back to the soil. Millions of detritivores in the soil will consume and enrich the soil again. This cycle is going on for an unknown time.
Interestingly, the camel defecate near the plants, to return the recycle fibrous material back to the plants for food
The detritivores depend upon the dead plants and animals, transforming them into molecules for soil fertility. You can see the wood of Milkweeds (Calitropis) is occupied by termites.
Yemeni pomegranate on the sand dune in UAE
Author with the pomegranate
Calmness and beauty, enjoying the top of the large dune
It is a hard job eating pomegranates on the top of the sand dune
Way forward
Many people have misunderstood the desert, they usually use the word ‘desert control’. Desert is not a pest or a disease. The Desert is a precious ecosystem. Desert is as important as other ecosystems like forests, meadows, grasslands, savannas, and riverine ecosystems. We just need to revitalize the desert back to a normal and healthy state of the situation. The Desert is a rich land with unique flora and fauna.
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