![]() ![]() Antelopes like the addax, have very low water needs and hence are able to tolerate the conditions in deserts, extracting moisture from the food they eat. For instance, Skinks ( desert lizards ) metabolize stored fats in their bulbous tails, producing water to supplement their needs, just like what camels do with the stored food in their humps during long journeys through deserts. ![]() Off grazing animals, thus enhancing its survival period.īesides plants, there are also animals with distinct surviving tactics in deserts too. Besides, these pointed pines also help the plant ward By having sharp pines instead of leaves, water loss through The plant has swollen stems to help store water that carries it In events of sudden rain, the plant seeds pullulateĪmerican deserts, adapts to the dry surroundings by having unique body Overcome seasonal temperature changes with their extremely short, active lifeĬycles. One such kind is the specialist annual plants which Surviving ones which through their superb tactics, have managed to live throughĪnd are still going strong. ![]() In the deserts, especially the lack of water, have discouraged many living Despite the fact that rainfall is minimal, temperatures do change in deserts, ranging from seasonal ones to daily changes where extreme hotness and coldness are experienced in the day and night. While it is common for laymen like us to see deserts as rocky or covered with gravel or pebbles, there are somewhere large sand dunes inhabit. In actual fact, there are differences between the deserts, though in varying degrees. A majority of us view deserts as one unique kind of landscape - areas Have estimated, about twenty percent of the earth’s surface is occupied byĭeserts. Which means how harmony it is in the region. ‘’sea of sounds, medley of images world of peoples, common heritage’’. Carifesta and differences in the region The Carifesta slogan were written by a Guyanese who lived in Jamaica. Then a problem occurred due to economic problems and the wreck of Hurricane Gilbert. Years past by Carifesta was built as a grand cultural explosion until it started to keep regularly all over the Caribbean. However, they all desire cricket the cultural festival Carifesta brings people together to present Caribbean festivals which were first proposed at a convention of writers and artists held in 1970 in Guyana. ‘’ Sea of sounds, medley of images, world of peoples, common heritage’’.Īlthough some Caribbean countries may have similarities they are diversed. It aptly sums up Carifesta and its vision. The Carifesta slogan, selected after a regional contest, was created by a Guyanese who lives in Jamaica. Subsequent festivals were hosted in Trinidad, St Kitts, and Nevis and The Bahamas.Ĭarifesta aims to depict the lives heritage of people of the region, show their similarities and their differences, and by creating a climate in which arts can flourish, persuade artists who have migrated for their art’s sake, to return to the region. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda offered to co-host the festival in 1989, but the idea was not practicable. Various problems prevented staging of other and the ravages of Hurricane Gibert made it impossible. It was followed by a Cuban Carifesta in 1979 then Carifesta IV in Barbados in 1981. It was originally hoped that Carifesta would be held every two years in a different country, but the second festival, in Jamaica, did not take place until 1976. Two years later, Carifesta I was billed as a grand cultural exposition and was held in Guyana with almost 1000 participants from 30 countries in the Caribbean, Central, and South America. The visionary inheritance of our forefathers. Peculiar temperament, paintings drawn from awe inspiring tropical ecology and ![]() Together to share their art forms, Literature inspired by the Caribbean’s own The region’s peoples with roots deep in Asia, Europe and Africa, coming The idea of Caribbean arts festivals was first proosed atĬonvention of writers and artists held in 1970 Guyana. The main purpose of Carifesta is to gather artists, musicians, and authors, and to exhibit the folkloric and artist manifestations of the Caribbean and Latin American region, in an international multicultural event organized on a periodic basis by the countries of the Caribbean. Cricket is popularly seen as the activity that brings them together, but the cultural festival, Carifesta, is just as effective in a different way. Despite their geographical closeness and their common history, the countries of the Caribbean richly diverse and take pride in their diversity. ![]()
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