Nigeria: Helping to Save Lake Chad

Lake Chad, the largest lake in the Chad basin of Africa which serves as a source of livelihood to as many as 30 million people in Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroun, is threatened by a number of factors ranging from climate change to population explosion, poor conservation practices and other human activities.

The above mentioned factors are said to be slowly sapping the precious lake of life and the life of those dependent on it as the water body has shrunk to only 5 percent of its original size - from 25,000 square kilometers in 1963 to less than 2,000 square kilometers presently.

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