AFRICA LAKE SHRINKAGE UNEP REPORT
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLSATELLITE images of the shrinking Aral Sea in central Asia have long horrified environmentalists, but now similar creeping disasters are threatening the many fresh water and brackish lakes of Africa. These are illustrated by disturbing satellite images within an atlas produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The creation of a new lifeless desert, the destruction of habitat and the deaths of entire species resulted from the Aral's disappearance, and these consequences now stare Africa in the face. Take Lake Songor, a brackish ...
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