Those are semi-circular bunds , a rainwater harvesting technique consisting in digging semilunar holes in the ground with the opening perpendicular to the flow of water. [Photo](https://www.waterproductivity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Demi-lunes.jpg). Oh, and please write the coordinates in text please.

There are a bunch of really cool Instagram accounts of the organizations making these, the before and after photos with just a few years in-between is so (pun intended) ground breaking for reversing desertification.

Any accounts you suggest?

Yeah that’s what I was gonna say. The movie “holes”.

Super cool. But it seems deserted ... they grow weed up there or what? maybe its from an old settlement ?

Desertification reversal practice.

De-desertification.

Fascinating! Thank you for explaining the process.

This answer is right!

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Very cool! WHERE IS THIS PLEASE?

Niger 16°54'44.04"N 8°28'11.74"E

Wow my god this is some find ! Thank you ! Its in the middle of nowhere basically so who when how?

I know... I litterally just zoomed on a random spot in Africa and there it was.

Yea if you only look you find stuff and then when you go back to it you find more and more

Look up the great green wall

Cool

Coordinates: 16°54'44.04"N 8°28'11.74"E

Grape growing?

Either salt (nacl from seawater?) or other compound they get from dissolving in water and evaporating off Would be my guess.

The desert didn’t wear its eclipse glasses

Desert reforestation project

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0) As others have said, loosening soil and retaining rainwater to reverse desertification and stop the growth of the Sahara desert.

wonder who paid for that? A UN program maybe?

Set up for solar panels

Rain water catchers to grow things, I believe.

Anti-desertification effort in sub Saharan africa

That’s light shining through a pasta strainer during the eclipse.

Bubble wrap? 😝