The new issue of Sierra Magazine features the story and photos of the professional journalist and photographer who visited the Berga wetland site in the same group I did last November. The story and the pictures include a few from that site visit (you will recognize health worker Gete Dida from a previous post) and many more from their much longer trip to the country. The piece captures a key part of the story - the tremendous education, health, family planning, and rights challenges for women in Ethiopia. And journalist Paul Rauber connects these challenges with the environment in ways meaningful to the people struggling to survive as well as the biodiversity (mostly birding) interests of Sierra readers. He even points out how these clash in stomach turning ways when a spectacular species is spotted just over the shoulder of a woman begging.I'll write more about this article and the issues it raises. Great read if you want to learn more about Ethiopia through the eyes of someone visiting Africa for the first time. Photographer Ian Berry on the other hand, has been covering African issues for decades including the distinction of being the only photographer documenting the 1960 Sharpville massacre in apartheid-era South Africa.
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Good to see one of the major conservation organizations finally paying attention to a place not known for being a biodiversity hotspot.
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