I’ve written before about Maya Waldman, an online acquaintance and Mutual Friend of Torrez who has spent the last several years traveling around the world, mostly in Asia. Presently, she is in the African nation of Zambia, in the southeast of Africa. Like much of sub-Saharan Africa, the population of Zambia is being decimated by AIDS.
This latest post from Maya is about her recent experiences working in an AIDS hospital in Lusaka, where little more can be done than comfort the dying.
This environmentalist website says that some 10,000 wildebeests were killed as the result of an accident during the animals’ normal annual migration from Tanzania to Kenya. Over a million of the animals make this trek each year from their breeding grounds northward. The wildebeests were crossing a river at an unfamiliar spot and misjudged the drop-off from the riverbank. Eventually the herds came to a stop, but not before thousands were swept away in the river.
In addition to the population decrease among the wildebeests, the accident will create a significant impact on the river and its ecosystem — the decaying carcasses will contaminate the water, creating problems for other animals dependent on that water source for survival. Of course, for scavenging animals, it’s a bonanza.
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