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Lake Tanganyika Authority - MCM5 & COM5 at Kigoma - Tanzania
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GLOW VII – Protecting Great Lakes of the World:
Managing Exploitation with Ecosystem-based Science
Themes of the conference- Changing climate and adaptation
- Growing human population and pressures
- Food web alterations
- Exotic invasions
- Balancing lake health from reaping to keeping
- Fish, fisheries & habitat
- Implementing ecosystem-based science towards management
- Stakeholder participation
- Health & biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems
- Integrating ecology, policy and politics and Linking ecological health, wealth and poverty.
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Lake Tanganyika Authority Secretariat : Regional Activities for Protection of the Lake Tanganyika Basin
The Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) was launched in December 2008 with the mandate to safeguard the lake and its natural resources. The LTA coordinates the implementation of the Convention on the Sustainable Management of Lake Tanganyika. It is now made operational with the headquaters to be hosted by Republic of Burundi in Bujumbura.
Administrative address
Lake Tanganyika Authority Secretariat, P.O. Box 4910 Ngagara, Kigobe North, Bujumbura - Burundi. Telephone : +257 22 27 35 80/81/82 * E-mail: info@lta-alt.org * Website: http://lta.iwlearn.org/
National and International Cooperating Partners
The Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) was launched in December 2008 with the mandate to safeguard the lake and its natural resources. The LTA coordinates the implementation of the Convention on the Sustainable Management of Lake Tanganyika. This is driven by the Governments of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia with support from a range of partner organizations including UNDP, Global Environment Facility (GEF), African Development Bank (ADB), FAO, Nordic Development Fund (NDF), IUCN, UNEP and NIGLAS.
- UNDP, United Nations Development Programme, www.undp.org
- GEF, Global Environment Facility, www.thegef.org
- ADB, African Development Bank, www.afdb.org
- FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, www.fao.org
- NDF, Nordic Development Fund, www.ndf.fi
- IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, www.iucn.org
- UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme, www.unep.org
- NIGLAS, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, http://english.niglas.cas.cn/au/bi/
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Lake Tanganyika is famed as a hotspot of aquatic biodiversity, harbouring hundreds of species that are found nowhere else in the world. |
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It is Africa’s oldest and deepest lake, and contains almost 17% of the world’s available freshwater supply. Millions of people depend on the lake for water, food, and transportation. |
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Furthermore, the LTA coordinates the implementation of the Convention on the Sustainable Management of Lake Tanganyika. The LTA also coordinates and oversees the implementation of the Regional Integrated Management and Development Programme, which focuses on establishment of sustainable fisheries, catchment management, pollution control, climate change adaptations, and monitoring programs. |
Executive Director of LTA, Mr. Henry Mwima |
Lake Tanganyika is one of Africa’s Great Lakes. It harbours hundreds of species of colourful fish, as well as snails, crabs, shrimps, sponges, and many other organisms that occur nowhere else in the world.
The natural resources of Lake Tanganyika and its basin are important to millions of people.The lake contains c.a. 17% of the world’s available surface freshwater supplies, and offers important transport routes between the riparian countries.
The basin is rich in minerals and fertile soils.The basin encompasses important wildlife refuges including Gombe Stream, Mahale Mountains, Nsumbu National Parks and Rusizi Nature Reserve.
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