AFRICAN WILDLIFE MAROONED ON MANMADE LAKE ISLANDS IS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE
September 1st, 2007
BY BILL CORCORAN, at Lake Kariba, Zambia
THE SIGHT of thousands of decomposing semi-submerged trees protruding from its murky waters is an eerie clue to the traumatic origins of southern Africa's Lake Kariba, a 200km long manmade reservoir wedged between Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Nearly 50 years on from the flooding of the Zambezi Valley by the then colonial Northern and Southern Rhodesian governments, through the Kariba dam hydroelectric power project, and contemporary conservationists' predictions of ecological disaster have at least partially come to pass. ...
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