This is a clear case of #ecocide & signals the beginning of biodiversity #collapse in the #Aberdares.
Destroying 185 acres of bamboo undermines vital #ecosystems, displaces #species, & weakens climate #resilience.
Development must not come at the cost of ecological #survival
#CancelNemaLicence
If you were at my #usiale2019 talk (or missed it), you can see my slides about #fire in the #Aberdares #Kenya here: http://bit.ly/HenryUSIALE2019 #MODIS #VIIRS #Landsat 🛰🔥🇰🇪
And finally something to compare! Here's burned area by year for both mountains. Surprising (to me) that MORE area burned on #Aberdares than #MtKenya in 2012. #MCD64A1 🔥🛰🇰🇪
At the stage where I'm just throwing too many graphics into my conference slides & will cull later. Need to figure out what story I'm telling... Here's my location map, though. #Aberdares #Kenya
I'll be presenting all of this at #usiale2019 in two weeks (in Fort Collins, CO). I'm in the last session on the last day, but I hope some people will still show up! #fire #Kenya #RemoteSensing #Aberdares
Lucked out with TWO (nearly) cloud-free #Landsat ETM+ images of the #Aberdares #Kenya to show big (~20K ha) March 2012 fire. This one while still burning (25 March 2012). Points show MODIS #ActiveFire for same date. #MCD14ML 🛰🔥🇰🇪
Interesting findings from #MODIS #MCD64A1 #BurnedArea data for #Aberdares #Kenya. Working on active data timing now... Already seeing differences from #MtKenya. 🛰🔥🇰🇪
First map from compiled fire data for #Aberdares, #Kenya. Fires seem to be exclusively at highest elevations in the moorland vegetation. #MCD64A1 #MODIS #Landsat 🛰🔥🇰🇪
And now I'm done downloading 168 HDF files that had be downloaded one at a time (all different subfolders!) That was fun. I skipped 3 years because no active fires were detected by MODIS on #Aberdares 2001, 2002, 2007, or 2010. Wonder if #VIIRS would've seen any. #MCD64A1 🔥🇰🇪
