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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal Basin is located in the Russian Federation. Situated in south central Siberia close to the Mongolian border, Lake Baikal is the oldest by 25 million years, and deepest, at 1,637 meters (m), of the world's lakes. It is 3.15 million hectares (ha) in size and contains a fifth of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater.

4029: Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem

01 Jan 2016

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