Gary Braasch was in Kenya in November 2006 under contract with the United Nations Climate Convention. He launched a UN calendar with a presentation at the international climate meetings in Nairobi, then traveled for a week to create images of climate change and how it affects the threatened ecosystems and people of Kenya. This is a selection of those photographs, including some of the grand landscapes of this African nation.

Kenya 11/06. Kilimarjaro seen from Amboseli plains, elephants and all, November 2006. After deep drought through early 2006, rains returned to bring life back, rivers and swamps filled, and at the mountain's 5892 M/19,300 ft height a light dusting of snow obscures the loss of so much glacier cap. Three panel assembled pan, D70 Nikon camera,

  

Kenya 11/06 Mt Kilimanjaro at night in two hour time exposure with D70 digital camera.

Kenya 11/06. Family of elephants in Amboseli Nat Park enjoy abundant water after normal "short rains" returned to break a long drought.

  

Kenya 11/06. Male elephant feeding on shrub after cooling mud bath; rains have returned to Amboseli and other places in Kenya after a severe drought.

 

Kenya 11/06. Weaverbird approaches nest, Amboseli Nat. Park.

Kenya 11/06. Lake Nakuru, shrinking and drying (again) probably due to over logging and pollution of feeding watersheds, reduces number of flamingos which are also dying of illness.

Kenya 11/06. Garissa Kenya flooding on Tana River, riverside suburb of Mororo, 5,000 people affected.

  

Kenya 11/06. Garissa Kenya flooding on Tana River, riverside suburb of Mororo, 5,000 people affected.

  

Kenya 11/06. Garissa Kenya flooding on Tana River, riverside suburb of Mororo, 5,000 people affected

  

Kenya 11/06. Nearly 5000 people in Mororo Kenya across the Tana River from Garissa, flee rising floodwaters.

Kenya 11/06. Game players, Garissa Kenya riverside suburb of Mororo

Kenya 11/06. Flood victim looks on inundated church building along the Tana River across from Garissa Kenya. 5000 people were at risk.

  

Kenya 11/06. Woman of the Green Belt Movement plants a tree in abandoned reservoir site near Katarina Kenya.

  

Kenya 11/06 Fresh water from new collecting tank on Maasai ranch outside of Nairobi, harvesting rainwater with equipment until now out of reach of impoverished cattle and goat ranchers. Money from UNEP by way of a local improvement organization.

 

Kenya 11/06. Glass workers at Kitengela Glass, life's work of Nani Croze, glass recycling, art glass, ceramics, beads, fantastic studio architecture

Kenya 11/06. Plowing and planting the ancient way, near Mwingi, Kenya after return of the Short Rains in November 2006.