Monthly Photos
Photos taken by ILCAA staff and associates are posted here once a month; most of them are taken during their field research in Asia and Africa.
(The copyright belongs to the photographers.)
A well in the Gobi desert
Due to an unusually long rain, the Gobi Desert looked so green at the time of our visit that it did not look like a desert at all. In the center of the photo is a well that was drilled deep into the ground to pump out groundwater.
August 16, 2018
Mongolia
Photograph by OGURA, Satoshi
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