Scientists Sounding Alarm As World’s Largest #Tropical #Lake Turns Green
In #LakeVictoria, #eutrophication and resulting #HAB have been caused by over a century of human activity sending nutrients into lake’s water. #Agricultural #runoff, #sewage, and industrial #wastewater have all been linked to the problem, as well as products of slash and burn practices, biomass burning, and industry being sent up into the atmosphere and dumped down into lake.
https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-sounding-alarm-as-worlds-largest-tropical-lake-turns-green-78617
https://archive.ph/5tHQw

Thunderstorm⛈️ close to the border of #Uganda🇺🇬 and #Tanzania 🇹🇿 over western Lake Victoria seen by #Sentinel2 🛰️on the morning of 10 September. #LakeVictoria

One #fish, two fish, 3,000 fish...
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/evolution-of-cichlid-fishes-east-africa

"More than 1,000 species of #cichlids have emerged in the past 3 million or 4 million years, and more than 500 in #LakeVictoria alone within the last 100,000 years or less. These are the largest and fastest adaptive radiations known in the animal kingdom, and understanding them will be important for understanding the origin of species diversity in general."

Migingo Island, a tiny landmass in Lake Victoria, straddling the border between Uganda and Kenya. Despite its minuscule size of less than 0.5 acres (about half a soccer field), over 500 people call this densely packed island home.

#MigingoIsland #CrowdedIslands #LakeVictoria #NilePerchFishing #UgandaKenyaBorder

After the excitement of the Shoebill, it was time to look at other species. On the way back across Lake Victoria to Entebbe, a magnificent African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) perched up ahead of us; the boatmen cut his engine and we drifted back to look at it.

#BirdsOfMastodon #Africa #Birds #Birding #wildlife #nature #FishEagle #Eagle #LakeVictoria #Entebbe #Uganda

https://youtu.be/yoQaeSRsbY8

Humans of watershed. Did you know Africa has #GreatLakes ? And we share the same problems. Invasive species, degraded water quality &fisheries, climate change &more. They contain 25% of worlds surface freshwater.
#CleanWaterisLife
#LakeTanganyika #LakeVictoria #LakeMalawi

https://archive.org/details/lebd2

Luo-English Biological Dictionary, Second Edition by John O. Kokwaro; Timothy Johns

Topics
#Dholuo, #biologicaldictionary, #biologicaldictionaries, #biology, #ecology, #zoology, #botany, #lakevictoria, #NamLolwe, #ethnobotany, #EastAfrica, #AfricanGreatLakes, #ecology, #Luoland, #Kavirondo, #Joluo, #Uganda, #Kenya, #Tanzania, #piny, #ngima, #ngeyo

"This Second Edition of the Luo-English Biological Dictionary contains an extensive coverage of the flora and fauna of the Lake Victoria region of East Africa. The region is mainly occupied by the Luo community. It comprises the Luo ethnosystematics and ethnobiological account including indigenous foods, traditional medicines, ritual and other cultural uses of plants. The dictionary is a result of over 20 years of research carried out by the authors.

Can't help myself but i smell a rat why the pilots had to die
#tanzania #plancrash #lakevictoria
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