Even camels hit by rising temperatures

Camels are known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa.

The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert.

“I can see my camels suffering from extreme heat,” Ali Umer, a camel herder from Semera in Afar, says.

“They get blisters on their feet, their eyes become watery and the hot sand burns their skin and eats up their hair when they are sitting,” says the herder (40), who owns around 500 camels.