https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/sudd-south-sudan
In 2007, Paul Elkan flew over the Sudd in the first survey after a 22-year civil war and discovered that the 1.2-million-strong migrating herd of antelope had managed to survive. Conservationists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p3yLYWmq6I
A month after President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal aimed at ending South Sudan's two-year civil war, there is still intermit

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/film/surviving-sudd
Surviving in the Sudd A month after President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal aimed at ending South Sudan's two-year civil war, there is still intermittent fighting in some of the nation's most far-flung and violent places. IRIN witnessed the first delivery of assistance since the government launched an offensive in

https://www.iwmf.org/reporting/massacre-survivors-cling-to-life-in-giant-swamp/
In a swamp where people fleeing war survive on water lilies, the world's newest country envisions a World Heritage site. ... They fled into the swampy expanse of the Sudd, where the Nile River's tributaries bleed into a vast wetland that holds one of the richest collections of wildlife and biodiversity in the world. Behind them, Leer burned.

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2011/01/04/jon-waterhouses-healing-journey-sudan/
Located in the Sudd, or Al Sudd, Old Fangak has the distinction of being in one of the largest swamps in the world … that is, during the wet season. During the rest of the year, its temperatures soar to over 122 degrees Fahrenheit and, as you might imagine, it gets very dry. ... There is hope with new drugs and treatments to up the survival

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/video/2015/09/30/surviving-sudd
Surviving in the Sudd - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world A month after President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal aimed at ending South Sudan's two-year civil war, there is still intermittent fighting in

https://www.medair.org/stories/into-the-sudd/
Into the Sudd. 14 March 2023. Stefan Kewitz, Regional Communications Manager . ... Just days before, his family was sure he would not survive. ©Medair/Stefan Kewitz. Gabriel is 52 and is the chief of one of the many small remote villages located in the banks of the Sudd. Africa's largest swamp stretches from the north to the centre of South

https://www.independent.co.uk/stop-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/south-sudan-northern-white-rhino-conservation-b1842398.html
The Sudd is a vegetation-dense swampland that spreads across the centre of South Sudan where the Nile feeds a network of lagoons and channels filled with papyrus fields and 12ft-high elephant grass.

http://newirin.irinnews.org/slideshow-surviving-in-the-sudd
Audio Slideshow Surviving in the Sudd 30th September 2015

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sudd-wetland-south-sudan
48. South Sudan's Sudd Wetland, also known as Al-Sudd, is one of the world's largest wetlands, covering more than 35,000 square miles in the north-central part of the country. The White Nile

https://www.wfp.org/stories/humanitarian-aid-alone-not-enough-restive-south-sudan
The country's wetlands — known as The Sudd — have permanently expanded to surrounding farmlands and pastures, drowning crops and leading to mass livestock deaths and massive internal displacement of people. Millions have been pushed into severe hunger while tens of thousands struggle to survive in famine-like conditions.

https://rhinoreview.org/hope-that-one-of-worlds-most-endangered-species-lives-on-in-south-sudans-vast-wilderness/
Today, what lives in the Sudd, and how, remains almost as unknown as it was to the Romans it vanquished two millennia ago. Its natural boundaries, and the instability in South Sudan that led to severe warnings to stay away like that of the Foreign Office, has created a unique environment for wildlife to survive outside the dangers of the modern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudd
The Sudd ( Arabic: السد, romanized : as-Sudd, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile 's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd ( سد ), meaning "barrier" [2] or "obstruction". [3] The term "the sudd" has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat.

https://theworld.org/stories/2016/08/02/despite-war-great-migrations-survive-south-sudan
During the dry months of November-April, the migration splits moving northwards toward the Ethiopian border and the swamps of the Sudd; in the wet season the animals congregate further south in Boma and neighboring Badingilo National Park. Elkan has seen herds of tiang 30,000 strong and white-eared kob stretching to the horizon.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/south-sudan-migration-c2e-spc-intl/index.html
War and peace The migration's survival - and growth - is likely to be linked to the decades of instability in the country, says Fay. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-4001-3_23
The Sudd is home to over 100 species of fish, providing feeding areas on the seasonal floodplains during the flood season (Welcomme 1979). Recruitment, growth, and survival of most of the fish species take place within the various habitats of the wetland. Within the permanent swamps, invertebrate zooplankton is abundant, as are mollusks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7btc3s/why_were_the_swamps_of_sudd_so_impenetrable_to/
Size, disease and logistics. The Sudd is tens of thousands of square miles of muck and swamp that is difficult to navigate, especially if you don't know the best route besides "south". It's frequently a few inches of water on top of feet of muck. It's hard to get a boat through and harder to wade through. The swamps were a haven for disease.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-world-s-largest-mammal-migration-happens-here-every-year-war-means-no-one-knows-about-it/ar-BB1oR8Cm
The migration's survival - and growth - is likely to be linked to the decades of instability in the country, says Fay. ... as plastic and human waste enter the river that flows into the Sudd

http://www.southsudan.net/the-sudd-swamp-in-south-sudan/
The Sudd is a vast swamp formed by the White Nile's Bahr-al Jaba section in South Sudan. This is one of the largest wetland areas in the world and the biggest freshwater wetland in the Nile basin. From the southern inflow of the Bahr al Jabal at Mongalla, the riverbed successively widens and become a floodplain caracterized in the dry season

https://africageographic.com/stories/kob-tiang-migration-south-sudan/
They return to Boma National Park and the vast inland delta known as the Sudd between November and January. The delta is the biggest in Africa and, in the wet season, may extend to 130,000 square km. It is home to 400 bird species and, in addition to the kob, tiang and gazelle is a refuge for the endangered Nile lechwe. Fifty years ago, there

https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10089/South-Sudan-Wildlife-Surviving-Civil-War-but-Poaching-and-Trafficking-Threats-Increase.aspx
South Sudan Wildlife Surviving Civil War, but Poaching and Trafficking Threats Increase . To receive the Technical Briefing Document on the 2015-2016 Aerial Surveys May, 24 2017 Press Release, ... the Sudd—were inaccessible due to conflict, preventing a comprehensive assessment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_South_Sudan
Sudd swamps observed from space. The wildlife of South Sudan refers to the natural flora and fauna of South Sudan.South Sudan includes the Sudd, one of the world's largest wetlands. According to the American biologist and conservationist, J. Michael Fay, South Sudan "could present the biggest migration of large mammals on earth", while Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) reports southeast

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170524191601.htm
South Sudan wildlife surviving civil war, but poaching and trafficking threats increase. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 22, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 05 / 170524191601.htm

http://newirin.irinnews.org/photo-all-places-were-dangerous
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https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-06-25-the-greatest-land-mammal-migration-on-earth-is-taking-place-and-its-not-the-serengeti/
The combined survey of white-eared kob, tiang, Mongalla gazelle and Bohor reedbuck counted just under 5,900,000 individuals. No black rhinos were seen - they are thought to have gone extinct in