Articles by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese

Maheder is a freelance photographer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. People and changes being a main inspiration to most of her documentary work, Maheder mainly focuses on telling stories, documenting changes and giving voices to what she considers to be voiceless in her community. Photo Exhibitions she has participated in include Morning Star Mall, Addis Ababa (October, 2014), “Photojournalists in Conflict”, World Press Freedom Day Celebrations in Finland, Helsinki (May, 2016) and the most recent one, “In Quest for” Goethe- Institute, Addis Ababa Ethiopia (August25 - Sep 30, 2016). In addition, she will also be presenting her works at the fourth edition of Addis Foto Fest which will take place from December 12th – 21st, 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Moreover, in April 2015, Maheder was among the top 10 honorable mention of women Professional artists after participating in the art competition announced by the USA embassy in Addis Ababa. She is currently working on personal projects involving documentary Photography works.

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

SIDAMA, Ethiopia — For Lidya Ashango and 14 million other Ethiopians, the false banana plant widely known as enset is a staple food and, on many occasions, a supplementary source…

Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 June 2019

ADDIS ABABA — Five miles northwest of Addis Ababa’s thriving city center is the lush Gullele Botanic Garden (GBG), the first well-established site of its kind in Ethiopia that covers…

Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

Aba Gada Kabeto Edamo Wabe(r), leader of the Oda Roba and Aba Gada Azmach Teshita, Sammato Bullo (l) leader of the Hambentu clan pose for a portrait inside Senekele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese.

In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction

by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 6 May 2019

SENKELE, Ethiopia — In the tall-grass woodland of the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia lies the Senkele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. The area has long been a home to the…

Aba Gada Kabeto Edamo Wabe(r), leader of the Oda Roba and Aba Gada Azmach Teshita, Sammato Bullo (l) leader of the Hambentu clan pose for a portrait inside Senekele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese.

Clergymen at Tsegur Michael Church near Debretabor, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land restoration makes progress in Ethiopia

by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 31 October 2018

DEBRETABOR, Ethiopia – At a tree nursery in Ethiopia’s Meket district, young men and women pack small plastic bags with soil. The indigenous and exotic species grown here were previously…

Clergymen at Tsegur Michael Church near Debretabor, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Leyew Akalu, a chief gardener at one of the resorts on Lake Tana, pushes weeds to the water’s edge where it will be received by a group of men in a boat to be thrown on a rock. Maheder Haileselassie Tadese/Mongabay

Community pulls water-thirsty invasive weeds from Ethiopia’s Lake Tana

by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 7 September 2017

Last week thousands of people in northwest Ethiopia marched to Abay River and Lake Tana as part of the “Save Lake Tana” movement to remove invasive water hyacinth by hand.…

Leyew Akalu, a chief gardener at one of the resorts on Lake Tana, pushes weeds to the water’s edge where it will be received by a group of men in a boat to be thrown on a rock. Maheder Haileselassie Tadese/Mongabay

Amone Ayesa collects wood in the Entoto forest outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese

The people of Ethiopia’s forests

by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 15 November 2016

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Like many countries, there is money in Ethiopia’s forestry sector – both regulated and unregulated. The most recent official figures from Global Forest Watch show that…

Amone Ayesa collects wood in the Entoto forest outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese

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