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This one was from Eden’s field station, 13km south of Tanout in the heart of Niger, where the rainy season is in full bloom. Hope you enjoyed!

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A week after we arrived in Zinder, we drove up to the field station in the heart of the Tanout region.

I love the field station. Once a barren field, it is now home to hundreds of indigenous trees. It’s such a serene place in a lost part of the world, where time stands still.

I’ve had [...]

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The world is full of beautiful skies. These images were sent in from Eden’s field station in Tanout earlier this week, where the research team is busy all season, researching what trees can grow in this arid area and how to best establish them without adding a drop of water or fertiliser. [...]

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In Niger, the rainy season has just recently begun and Eden’s field station is now inhabited by a team of field workers. The new experiments for this year has been sowed (more pictures to follow…) and in the coming weeks, the researching team will monitor the growth of the new plants on a weekly basis, [...]

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This past Friday, three-year-old Tabita visited Eden’s field station in Tanout for the first time together with her father Josef, grandfather and my cousin Daniel.

It was a big experience. Prior to their departure, she was writing with chalk on the veranda, and explained to her mother that the first word that she had written (”HAY”) [...]

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Sometimes, the sky is too beautiful not to enjoy!

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The first news agency to write about the Niger Famine Scam (in December 2005) was Der Spiegel. Their article was recently published on the Internet, and what follows is a rough translation. Should you prefer to read the original German version, just click on the image below:

The Desert Garden of Eden
Global Village: In Niger, a [...]

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Yesterday, we had another rain in Zinder (!), which makes this one of the longest rainy seasons I’ve ever experienced during my time in Niger.

The rains that come now towards the end of the season are lighter and much “cleaner” than the ones that come in June, often mixed with whicked sandstorms! To see the [...]

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Tanout, September 2008
I was so happy to come back to Niger and find the country still green. It rained not too long ago, and the greenness may last for a while, even if it won’t rain again for the rest of the season.

Although I haven’t been to the field station since my arrival this [...]

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It was my sister who discovered this little scorpion baby at the field station (not very far away from her feet). He is so see-through that you can hardly spot him in the sand, and I must admit, I wasn’t all that keen on taking a supermacro shot…

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Well, actually the entire Niger is turning green right now, but I posted a picture of last week at the field station, as that is where I am heading today. In just a few, actually, so I’ve got to run!
See you when I get back, after a day’s work in the sun!

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Last week was probably the greatest challenge of the season: the sowing the new experiments at the field station.

It was fun days of hard work, involving the whole team and a lot of efficient work!

Although we aimed for five days, the team had the job done in four, and there was no quality compromise. Not [...]

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Where were you, twenty years ago?

This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.

Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much [...]

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