Fishermen turning a boat on Lake Victoria in Kenya. The lake is covered by the aquatic plant water hyacinth.
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The new report on alien invasive species doesn’t just concentrate on problems. It also offers solutions.
The sluice gates open at the Owen Falls dam across the White Nile in Uganda on 14 October 1962.
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The mega dam in Jinja was meant to give Uganda energy independence, but this was constrained by Britain’s agricultural interests in Egypt.
Parts of Kenya have flooded as a result of Lake Victoria’s rising levels.
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The flooding has affected water resources, agriculture and food security, health and sanitation, fisheries, and energy and infrastructure.
Lake Victoria.
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Lake Victoria’s past is key to understanding its future.
Cage farming is when fish are raised and harvested in a netted enclosure.
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With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
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Wetlands are disappearing rapidly - but new data and technologies are revolutionising our knowledge.
The Nile River during sunset in Luxor, Egypt.
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The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Lake Victoria sees high levels of illegal fishing carried out by local fisherman and traders.
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Urgent measures need to be adopted to prevent corruption linked to illegal fishing activity in and around Lake Victoria.
Participation is needed from all role players to save Lake Victoria from further degradation.
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Information about the threats facing Lake Victoria and how they’re perceived are crucial to reverse the damage that’s been done.
Ugandan fishermen pull in their nets at dawn in Lake Victoria, which is shared between Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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The dispute between Uganda and Kenya over an islet half the size of a football pitch has been fuelled by the perceived imbalance in fish harvests and the prospects of oil reserves beneath.
Lake Victoria sustains about 200,000 fishers.
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Social ties between Lake Victoria’s fisherfolk are critical for gaining access to credit, employment, maintaining reliable and skilled labour and access to markets.
The aquatic weed water hyacinth is causing major problems in Ethiopia’s Lake Tana.
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Lake Tana in Ethiopia has been massively affected by the invasive weed, water hyacinth. Control methods are available but there are challenges.
The declining fishing yield in the Lake Tanganyika region is being exacerbated by an influx of refugees.
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Climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation threatens one of Africa’s oldest lake’s, Lake Tanganyika.