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  1. A detailed bathymetry model of Lake Victoria 🗺️🌊
    Dataset source: Harvard Dataverse (Remastered Version)

    Exploring the depths of Africa’s largest lake across 🇹🇿 🇰🇪 🇺🇬

    #Victoria #LakeVictoria #Tanzania #Kenya #Uganda #EastAfrica #Africa #GIS #Geospatial #Cartography #DataVisualization #Dataviz #Bathymetry #b3d #Map

  2. 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.
    iflscience.com/scientists-soun
    archive.ph/5tHQw

  3. 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

    youtu.be/yoQaeSRsbY8

  4. 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.