Lake Tanganyika:
The countries which border Lake Tanganyika Basin have launched a five-year project to assess and address transboundary threats to the biodiversity of this lake basin.
- The governments of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia have launched a five-year project to assess and address transboundary threats to the biodiversity of the Lake Tanganyika Basin.
- It is the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-led initiative and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
- It aims to enhance transboundary cooperation among the four countries bordering Lake Tanganyika.
- It will also promote sustainable fisheries, biodiversity conservation, and the restoration of degraded landscapes in the basin.
- The initiative will protect core conservation zones in three identified protected areas and promote sustainable natural resource use in protected areas and their buffer zones.
- Lake Tanganyika is an ancient lake located in East Africa.
- Bordering Countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia.
- It is extremely long, deepest and is the longest lake in the world, measuring over 400 miles long.
- It occupies the southern end of the Western Rift Valley, and for most of its length the land rises steeply from its shores.
