East Africa Rift Valley Lakes 47 Giwa Regional Assessment
The East African Rift Valley Lakes (EARVL), GIWA region 47, runs from
the northern end of Lake Turkana Basin to the southern tip of the Lake
Malawi/Nyasa Basin and includes all the natural habitat and associated
human communities found within the Rift Valley and on the adjacent
escarpments (Figure 1). It encompasses parts of the following countries;
Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic
Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. The
main lakes include Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi, Turkana, Albert, Edward,
George and Kivu. All are tropical and together comprise the African
Great Lakes ecoregion. However, each lake lies within its own separate
drainage basin, with its own assemblage of endemic organisms, most
notably the cichlid fi sh species-fl ocks.
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