Desert Staples
These structures look like staple wires, but what purpose do they actually serve? A reader thinks they might be catch basins for water, but could they serve an ominous or secretive purpose?
Name: Desert Staples
Lat, Long: 14.2603959,3.5021491
Location: Filingue, Niger
Reported by: Dick Henning
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They’re called “glacis,” or bench terraces. They’re an attempt to reclaim arable land in areas that have undergone desertification. Niger lost a huge majority of its forest between 1960 and 2000, and the resulting desertification was (is) a major risk to human survival in the region.