ـ[عز الدين القسام]ــــــــ[06 - 05 - 2010, 12:43 ص]ـ
الحمدلله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ... أما بعد:
هناك إحصائيات كثيرة تفيد بأن أفريقيا هي التي تضم أكبر عدد من الإبل ومن ثم آسيا ولم تذكر المصادر استراليا:
المعلومة تقول:
يبلغ عدد الإبل في العالم حالياً حوالي 20 مليون رأس منها 14 مليون في المنطقة العربية (أي 70 % من إبل العالم). تحتل أفريقيا المركز الأول وتضم 75 % من إبل العالم تليها آسيا 25 %.
من الدول العربية المشهورة بتربية الإبل تاتي الصومال في المرتبة الأولى (54 %) تليها السودان (26 %) ثم موريتانيا (7,3 %) ثم ليبيا وتونس والسعودية ومصر والجزائر والإمارات.
أما العراق فقد تراجعت أعداد الإبل في العقدين الأخيرين إلى أقل من 10 آلاف رأس بعد ان كانت تقدر باكثر من 50 ألف رأس في السبعينيات.
ومن الدول الغير عربية التي توجد في أراضيها أعداد متميزة من الأبل: الهند , باكاستان , منغوليا , أثيوبيا وكينيا.
http://forum.07-ksa.com/t983.html
وهناك مواقع أخرى كثيرة.
هذا يؤكد صحة ما قلت .. إذ أن المقال لم يذكر أستراليا نهائياً أختي الكريمة ..
أنا لا أعتمد على المواقع العربية في البحوث لأنها غالبا ما تكون غير دقيقة وتغلبها العاطفة أكثر من الواقعية والموضوعية ... فالإحصاء عندنا نحن العرب يكون على نحو غير علمي ..
Camels in Australia are the only feral herds of their kind in the world and are estimated to number more than 1,000,000 with the capability of doubling in size every nine years.[1] The Australian camels are descendants of camels imported into Australia, beginning in the mid-1800s, to help lay the foundations of the nation. Shipments came largely from the Indian subcontinent, but animals were also landed from Muscat, Yemen, Iraq and the Canary Islands.
Arriving in a trickle that swelled to a flood by the early 20th century, the camels were often guided and cared for by Muslim cameleers known as 'Afghans'. Handlers came from lands as far away as Egypt, Turkey and Persia, though most - with their camels - hailed from northern India and what today is Pakistan. But the men were all, almost always incorrectly, called Afghans or simply "Ghans." The name stuck to a section of the 2,900 km (1,800 mi) transcontinental Central Australia Railway linking Port Augusta in the south to Darwin in the north. Camels hauled material and supplies to the men building that line beginning in 1879, and the segment of track from Port Augusta to Alice Springs was called "The Ghan" until it was relaid about a decade ago.
It could be argued that the town of Alice Springs owes its existence to the hardy camel and the equally hardy cameleers. It was founded in the early 1870s as a repeater station for the Darwin-to-Adelaide Overland Telegraph Line - which was also built by men who depended on dromedaries for supplies and equipment. Plodding camels not only helped establish "The Alice," they brought it music: the first piano arrived in the 1880s, the story goes, strapped to the back of a camel. Aptly, the city holds a state legislative district, a primary school and a major thoroughfare all named after cameleer Saleh "Charlie" Sadadeen, who came to Alice Springs with his team in 1890. "Children were enthralled with his distinctive, flowing robes and intrigued with the long-stemmed pipe he smoked," reports the Alice Springs Centralian Advocate.
Men like Sadadeen came to Australia on two- to three-year contracts but often lived out their lives in the country, writes American geographer Tom McKnight in The Camel in Australia. While a handful became wealthy, deploying "thousands of camels organized into the backbone of corporate business," most toiled from dawn to well past dusk for low pay, and lived near outback towns in little communities distinguished by the "tin minarets of their hastily constructed mosques." Wherever the cameleers settled, writes McKnight, "they would soon construct a place of worship. In every case the mosque was a focal point of community life in Ghan Town."
ـ[عز الدين القسام]ــــــــ[06 - 05 - 2010, 12:50 ص]ـ
كذلك في أستراليا على ما أظن
نعم أخي أبا يزن هو كما ذكرت ..
أظن أن المعلومات البيئية تجذبك كثيرا ..
إذن سنكثر منها كي نكسب ضيافة صاحب البيت.
لقد أرقتني اعتراضات أختنا زهرة ..
أنا في حاجة لمساعدتك للرد عليها:)
تحياتي ..
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