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Tanzania’s tourist-attracting Lake Tlawi shrinks away alarmingly

the mbulu highlands 9A tourist, who desires to visit the remote fresh water highland lake — Lake Tlawi — in Manyara region, may very soon have to return disappointed. Located about 50 kilometers South of Mbulu town, adjacent to the Tlawi village, the lake is in the verge of extinction, despite the heavy rains currently pounding the entire Mbulu highlands.

To add to the foreseen starvation of the region’s tourism industry, the lake’s shrinking will eventually rob the area of not just its photogenic landscape, but also the large flock of both residential and migratory birds that host around the lake’s fresh waters.

Once, a sanctuary for various bird spices and abundant fishes, the lake is now just a murky, algae filled, stagnant water body!

It seems the pounding rain, washing the area’s roads and bridges away, couldn’t do much to boost the dramatic shrinking of the lake’s water level.

If this is the situation during the rainy season, it is not easy to guess the toll the weather would take on the lake in the forthcoming dry months.

Is global warming or climate change taking its toll on the highland freshwater habitats? — as population of both the Macoa ducks and the Great crested grebes — in both Tanzania and its neighbor Kenya – is found to be shrinking at an alarming rate!

Photo: meso-tz.org

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