ass="apple-converted-space"> Since
2007, Chinese mining consortium, whose license covers an area north of In Gall,
has carried out infrastructural work for new uranium mine at Azelik, some 85 km north of In
Gall, which includes extending roads from In Gall to the site. Nigerien human
rights, environmental and Tuareg groups have argued that mining activities in
this region are a threat to scarce water resources, upon which pastoralism
depend. The short rainy season in the Azawagh area
north and west of In Gall makes the region the northern destination for a
cattle and camel herding transhumance cycle which sees communities travel as
far south as Burkina Faso during the dry months.In-Gall is also
famous to outsiders for its paleontological digs, most notably the Jobariatiguidensis, and the remains of
petrified forests dating back 135 million years
