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Plone Workshop from May 24, 2011 01:00 PM to May 28, 2011 09:00 PM: 5 day IWLearn Plone 4 workshop
Lake Tanganyika Day 2011 from Jul 21, 2011 02:00 PM to Jul 23, 2011 05:00 AM — Bujumbura,: Lake Tanganyika Day 2011 : "The Lake Tanganyika is not a dustbin: Let's protect the Lake and its Basin". The Lake Tanganyika Authority in collaboration with the Government of Burundi (Ministry of Water, Environment, Territory Management and Urbanization), the ACVE, UNDP/GEF Project, PRODAP, INECN, ABO, Pays de la Loire, PROSECEAU (GIZ) and IUCN, will celebrate the Lake Tanganyika Day from 21-23 July, 2011 at Bujumbura.
World Water Week 2011 from Aug 21, 2011 05:00 AM to Aug 27, 2011 05:00 AM — Stockholm,: Hosted in Stockholm, Sweden
Climate Changement Training from Jun 21, 2011 01:00 PM to Jun 24, 2011 10:00 PM — Dar-Es Salaam / Tanzania,: A training on climate changement on Lake Tanganyika is now organised by the Direction of Environment of LTA in order to understand what it is now done by stakeholders...
1st Africa Fisheries and Aquaculture Summit from Nov 24, 2011 06:00 AM to Nov 27, 2011 06:00 AM — Seychelles,: .
Regional Workshop on Climate Change and Fisheries in the African Great Lakes from Sep 07, 2011 05:00 AM to Sep 09, 2011 05:00 AM — Nairobi - Kenya,: -
The highly destructive invasive, Mimosa diplotricha is in Bujumbura!: Mimosa diplotricha is an invasive plant in some parts of Africa and has recently come to Burundi.
The invasive Mimosa pigra is extending its range in the Lake Tanganyika ecosystem: Mimosa pigra is an invasive species in many places in Africa and is spreading.
Lake Tanganyika Basin Development Conference from Nov 28, 2011 06:00 AM to Nov 29, 2011 06:00 AM — Bujumbura,: The Lake Tanganyika Basin Development Conference will take place in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 28th to 29th November, 2011.
Seventh Great Lakes of the World Conference (GLOW VII) from Jun 17, 2012 05:00 AM to Jun 20, 2012 05:00 PM — Bujumbura,: Just to inform you that due to many requests, and logistic reasons, the conference committee has elected to move the dates of the GLOW VII conference from April 29th – May 2nd to June 17th to 20th. This will permit broader participation of scientists who are involved with teaching assignments at Universities as well as attending students.
Come Invest in Lake Tanganyika Basin - HE President Nkurunziza: EAC Summit Chairperson urges investors to take advantage of basin’s vast potential as 1st Lake Tanganyika Basin Development Conference opens
Lake Tanganyika Basin Development Conference recommendations
5th LTA Conference of Ministers from Feb 28, 2012 07:00 AM to Feb 29, 2012 05:00 PM — Kigoma - Tanzania,: The fifth ordinary meeting of the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) Conference of Ministers has been postponed from 28th to 29th February 2012 at Kigoma, Republic of Tanzania. Delegates from the four riparian countries will be led by Minister of Water, Environment, Territory Management and Urban Planning of the Republic of Burundi, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mrs. Ruth H. MOLLEL, Minister in charge of Environment of the United Republic of Tanzania and Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources of the Republic of Zambia. Staff members from the LTA, United Nations Development Programme / Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) Regional Project Coordination Office, National Coordination Units (NCUs) and UNDP/GEF Project Management Units (PMUs) will attend the meeting as observers.
5th LTA Management Committee Meeting from Feb 26, 2012 07:00 AM to Feb 27, 2012 05:00 PM — Kigoma - Tanzania,: The fifth meeting of the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) Management Committee has been postponed from 26th to 27 February 2012, at Kigoma, Republic of Tanzania. The meeting will be attended by Management Committee members from the four Lake Tanganyika riparian countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. The meeting agenda will be communicated soon.
Investment opportunities in Lake Tanganyika and Victoria are still limited by security and environmental threats: http://www.independent.co.ug/rwanda-ed/rwanda/5042-unlocking-a-regional-resource
Lake Tanganyika and the Greater Mahale Ecosystem: In fact, a recent survey conducted by Nature Conservancy social scientists concluded that 95% of GME households earn income from farming. Rapidly growing village populations are left with little choice but to expand their settlements and farms into the wild lands and clear forest and woodland for agriculture, fuel and timber. Steep hillsides are haphazardly farmed and the run-off, heavy with sediment, fills coastal zones and pushes near-shore fishery production—the source of 40% of the protein for local families—into decline.
The Lake Tanganyika Regional Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme has to be promoted: A workshop on the Draft Lake Tanganyika Regional Integrated Environmental Monitoring Programme (LTRIEMP) was opened at Bujumbura on this Thursday, 16th February 2012, by the Executive Director of Lake Tanganyika Authority, Dr Henry Mwima.
Attending the design work of database management system of Lake Tanganyika Monitoring from Sep 01, 2013 08:00 AM to Sep 21, 2013 12:00 AM — Nanjing, PR China,: Visiting Scholar Program for MOST-UNEP Joint Project of Water Quality and Ecosystem Monitoring and Demonstration of New Waste Water Treatment
The fifth meeting of the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) Management Committee took place at Lake Tanganyika Hotel, Kigoma, Tanzania from 26th to 28th February 2012.: The fifth meeting of the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) Management Committee took place at Lake Tanganyika Hotel, Kigoma, Tanzania from 26 th to 28 th February 2012.
LTA Executive Director in visit at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)
2nd Regional Fisheries Research Meeting from Apr 04, 2012 06:00 AM to Apr 05, 2012 05:00 PM — Kigoma - Tanzania,: The purpose of this Second regional meeting is to review the Lake Tanganyika riparian countries' fisheries research proposals adopted in the First regional workshop which held in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010.
LTA at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles, France: -
Burundi Water Code adopted – A true progress: The Parliament recently adopted the first Burundi Water Code, a general law providing the standards, the guiding principles in the sector and the legal and institutional frame of water sector, to enable the good governance of potable water services for Burundian population and sustainable management of water resources in the country.
Celebration of the World Water Day, 2012 Edition: On 22nd March 2012, Burundi celebrated the World Water Day under the theme “Water in sufficient quality and quantity: source of life”. Related ceremonies took place in Kirundo Province, Busoni commune, in the zone of Gisenyi at Rwibikara, near Lake Cohoha.
Strategic financial planning for water and sanitation in Central Africa: Investing in water supply and sanitation will have immense economic benefits for households, communities, countries and the world at large. Estimates from the OECD put these benefits emanating from, time savings, health care saving, and productivity savings (productive days of the workforce, school attendance etcetera) at about US$84 billion per year if the water and sanitation MDGs were met.
Elusive Bururi Long-Fingered Frog Found After 62 Years: ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2012) — Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Burundi in December 2011. The frog was last seen by scientists in 1949 and was feared to be extinct after decades of turmoil in the tiny East African nation.
The physics of the warming of Lake Tanganyika by climate change: Climate warming over the 20th century has increased the density stratification and stability of Lake Tanganyika, a deep rift valley lake. While lakes in general will increase heat outputs in a warming climate, heat outputs will increase more slowly in deeper lakes than in shallower lakes.
Optimized extraction of daily bio-optical time series derived from MODIS/Aqua imagery for Lake Tanganyika, Africa: Standard MODIS Aqua Ocean Color products were found to not provide a suitable calibration for high altitude lakes such as the Lake Tanganyika. Our results show that for the geographical, atmospheric and optical conditions of Lake Tanganyika: (i) a coastal aerosol model set with high relative humidity (90%) provides a suitable atmospheric correction; A comparison between surface chlorophyll-a concentrations estimated from field monitoring and from the MODIS based dataset shows that remote sensing allows improved detection of surface blooms in Lake Tanganyika.
Insights into the evolution of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillina): Barcoding and phylogenetic data from Lake Tanganyika endemics indicate multiple invasions and unsettle existing taxonomy. Therefore, we reject the hypothesis of monophyly for the sponges from Lake Tanganyika and challenge existing higher taxonomic structure for freshwater sponges.
Invasive species and climate change: an agronomic perspective: However, recent events on the global stage, particularly in regard to the number of food riots that occurred during 2008, even at a time of record harvests, have prompted additional interest in those factors, including invasive species, which could, through climatic uncertainty, alter food production.
Need for biological control of invasive plants affecting Lake Tanganyika in Burundi: The association Greenbelt Action for Environment (ACVE) and Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA), in collaboration with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), UNOPS, and the UNDP/GEF Project, organised, on Thursday May 3 rd , a workshop on biological control of invasive plants affecting the Lake Tanganyika ecosystem in Burundi.
A new initiative for the Lake Tanganyika basin : the LT-WATSAN Programme: Initied by UN-Habitat, the Lake Tanganyika - Water, Sanitation and Environmental Management Project (LT-WATSAN Project) will take full advantage of experiences and lessons learnt from Lake Victoria - WATSAN under UN-HABITAT, indicated Mr. Robert GOODWIN, Chief LV Section WATSAN / UN HABITAT.
The National Action Plan for sustainable management of resources in Lake Tanganyika basin in Burundi was validated.: Representatives of the Ministry of Water, Environment, Land and Urban Planning, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Lake Tanganyika Authority, local environmental NGOs and some environmental development partners (UNDP, Global Environment Facility – GEF and UNOPS) validated, after some amendments, the document of National Action Plan (NAP) for Lake Tanganyika natural resources management.
2nd Steering Committee Meeting - IRFS Programme from May 28, 2012 06:00 AM to May 29, 2012 04:00 PM — Pearl Beach Hotel, Mauritius,: The Indian Ocean Commission through the SmartFish Programme (Implementation of Regional Fisheries Strategy of the Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Region) will hold its second Steering Committee Meeting On May 28th and 29th, 2012.
The Lake Tanganyika basin affected by impacts of climate changes: Modifications related to climate changes could have increasing impacts on the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in Lake Tanganyika basin, note Gaspard Ntakimazi, Professor at the University of Burundi in the “National Action Plan (NAP) for implementing the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for protecting the biodiversity and the sustainable management of natural resources in Lake Tanganyika basin”.
The fishing pressure is an increasing threat to the sustainability of fishery resources in Lake Tanganyika: Interventions proposed for developing sustainable fisheries in this lake are such as reviewing and updating the national components of the Fisheries Management Frame Plan, developing and implementing fishing license process, improve the involvement of local communities in fisheries management, and promote sustainable fisheries alternative livelihoods.
Think Tank Inception Meeting Formulation of African Fisheries Policy Framework from Jun 04, 2012 05:00 AM to Jun 06, 2012 05:00 PM — Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire,: A consultative inception meeting on the developement of the African Fisheries Policy Framework and its Comprehensive Reform Strategy. The meeting will be hosted by the African Union InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA)
The 7th Great Lakes of the World (GLOW) is being co-hosted by LTA and AEHMS at Bujumbura: The Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) and the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society (AEHMS) of Canada co-hosted the 7th Great Lakes of the World (GLOW) Conference that is being held from 17th – 20th June, 2012 in Bujumbura, Burundi. The opening ceremonies were lead by Honorable Odette Kayitesi, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Burundi.
LTA and TNC: towards joint efforts to protect Lake Tanganyika: The collaboration area includes exploring opportunities to share resources on collaborative projects, in matters relating to fisheries management and environmental conservation through cooperative efforts.
Harmonisation des mesures de l’impact environnemental de l’élevage: Les directives et indicateurs communs d’évaluation permettront de mieux comprendre les impacts et d’élaborer des politiques
Lake Tanganyika Day 2012 :"Lake Tanganyika, a treasure to be protected" from Jul 20, 2012 06:00 PM to Jul 22, 2012 09:00 PM — Rumonge - Bujumbura - Burundi,
World Water Week 2012 Jul 19, 2012 10:50 AM — Stockholm - Sweden,: Welcome to the 2012 World Water Week Event Finder! This is an interactive tool to help you explore the World Water Week programme, find sessions that match your interests, and plan your time during the Week. You can use: • drop-down menus to filter the entire week's programme by theme, regional focus, time, venue, or event type. • keyword search box to find programme elements by specific terms such as convener name or topical terminology. To learn more about the different types of events, click http://www.worldwaterweek.org/eventfinder
Celebration of Lake Tanganyika National Day, 2012 edition: "If we do not take care, many human activities pose a threat to Lake Tanganyika," noted Mr. Gabriel Toyi, representing the second Vice-President of the Republic of Burundi, in the ceremonies of Lake Tanganyika National Day, July 22 nd each year. Dr. Henry Mwima, the Executive Director of Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) has recognized the efforts made by Burundi in protecting the lake and appealed to other Lake Tanganyika riparian countries (DRC, Tanzania and Zambia) to emulate the example set by the Government of the Republic of Burundi by setting aside one day to celebrate the unique and shared heritage: Lake Tanganyika.
Burundi industrialists called to contribute to protecting water resources: It was during a discussion workshop on the main provisions of the water code in Burundi that was organised by the Ministry of Water, Environment, Land and Urban Planning, in partnership with the Sectoral Programme Water and Sanitation of the Federal German Republic. The water code being disseminated for the implementation of the national water policy adopted in 2009, proves that water management and use are based on 10 key principles.
Tanzania - Lake Tanganyika Integrated Regional Development Programme (PRODAP) - Supply and Commissioning of Four Surveillance Boats and Communication Equipment - AOI: -
Optimized extraction of daily bio-optical time series derived from MODIS/Aqua imagery for Lake Tanganyika, Africa: Standard MODIS Aqua Ocean Color products were found to not provide a suitable calibration for high altitude lakes such as the Lake Tanganyika . Our results show that for the geographical, atmospheric and optical conditions of Lake Tanganyika : (i) a coastal aerosol model set with high relative humidity (90%) provides a suitable atmospheric correction;
Possible effects of global climate change on the ecosystem of Lake Tanganyika: Any change in the air temperature, wind speed, precipitation, and incoming solar radiation induced by increasing greenhouse gasses and climate change will directly influence lakes and other water bodies. The effects of a slight increase in lake water temperature on the Lake Tanganyika ecosystem might be mitigated by increased windiness, if the latter was sufficient to induce greater mixing.
New Guide to some invasive plants affecting Lake Tanganyika: Lake Tanganyika Authority in collaboration with UNDP/GEF Project and IUCN Invasive Species Initiative organized a workshop on invasive species affecting Lake Tanganyika at Kibunoah Hotel, in Bujumbura - Burundi, for the Burundi and D. R. Congo Technical Teams on Environmental Issues. "From this 23 rd to 24 th August, 2012, you will be involved to how you can control species that have become invasive and be trained how you can prevent new invasions in order to develop a Monitoring Programme for Invasive Species for the four riparian countries of Lake Tanganyika” said Mr. Gabriel Hakizimana, Director of Environment of Lake Tanganyika Authority – LTA.
Report_2nd Regional Training on Bioinformatics, GIS, RS and Portal Administration_ARCOS Sept, 2012: .
ToRs: The Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) is calling for applications of visiting scholars from the Lake Tanganyika ripaian countries to attend a program on database management system which will be held at Nanjing, PR China in September, 2013. More details are find below:
Consultative Forum on the Strategic Action Programme at Bujumbura
AWARENESS WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FISHERIES FOR FISHING COMMUNITIES IN BURUNDI: The objectives of the workshop are to initiate awareness among fishing communities on the issues of sustainable use of living and non-living resources of Lake Tanganyika, and refine the analysis of the impact of the fishing business management of these resources. The other objective is to produce videos of short stories in four languages on key issues related to the management and conservation of Lake Tanganyika. The videos will be used to educate people about the dangers of unsustainable practices and promote the use of best practices.