Outreach materials

newsletters, brochures.

LTBP newsletter-Lakeside/ Au Bord du Lac - Vol. 1 No. 4, 1999.

delegation from the Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project (LTBP) participated in a conference from 4-5 March 1999 organised by its sister project on Lake Malawi/Nyassa. The delegation, led by Dr A. Menz, LTBP Coordinator, also included Dr K. West, LTBP Scientific Liaison Officer; Dr F. Chale, PSS Co-ordinator for Tanzania; Dr M. Nshombo, BIOSS Co-ordinator for DR Congo; Dr G. Ntakimazi, BIOSS Co-ordinator for Burundi; and Mr L. Mwape, PSS Coordinator for Zambia.

LTBP newsletter-Lakeside/Au Bord du Lac - Vol. 1 No. 1, 1999.

Though the riparian communities must have admired Lake Tanganyika’s beauty and depended upon it for freshwater, protein (from a fish-based diet), and regional transportation for centuries, the rest of the world first heard news of Lake Tanganyika when Richard Burton and John Speke set eyes upon it, on 13 February 1858. After travelling from Zanzibar eight months by boat and by foot, and facing desertion by most of their porters, disastrous weather, attacks from hostile tribes, shortage of money, exhaustion, malaria, loss of an expedition member to crocodiles, and ill health, Speke being temporarily blinded and Burton rendered mute and unable to eat owing to abcesses in his mouth, Burton, setting eyes upon the lake, wrote in his diary, “Nothing, in sooth, could be more picturesque than this first view of the Tanganyika Lake, as it lay in the lap of the mountains, basking in the gorgeous tropical sunshine...Forgetting toils, dangers, and the doubtfulness of return, I felt willing to endure double what I had endured.”

LTBP newsletter-Lakeside/Au Bord du Lac - Vol. 1 No. 2-3, 1999

World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event which can be celebrated in many ways, including street rallies, bicycle parades, green concerts, essay competitions in schools, tree planting as well as recycling and clean up campaigns. WED is also a multi-media event which inspires thousands of journalists to write and report on the environment. It is a visual event with television documentaries, photo exhibits and poster displays. It is also an intellectual event for those who organize and participate in seminars, round-table meetings and symposia. All in all, WED serves to enhance public and political attention and action for the environment.