The Lake Chad was a big sea in Africa because he shranks as much as 95% of his size from 1963 to 1998. He is on the edge of the Sahara Desert between Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
Lake Chad gave its name to the country of Chad. The name Chad is a local word meaning "large expanse of water," in other words, a lake.
There are about 179 fish species in the whole Lake Chad but they are divided into the Niger River, the Nile River and the Congo River. And so the Lake Chad it selfs only holds 85 fish species.
In 4000 BC he was 400,00km² big but in 1960 he covered only 26,000km² because of the civilization. They needed water from the lake to live and so he shranks until now. Today he is only 1500km² big. The people around the lake don't want to stop this shranking and they don't want to stop fishing , too. So it's very hard for the birds and fishs to live their and the birds may not land their in a few years for wintering.
Hey Robin, thank you for this informative text... The lake is not masculine... why do you write "he"... "it" is the fitting word... Please correct this :-)
ReplyDeleteIT´S VERY COOL THAT THE LAKE CONTAINS SO MUCH SPECIES OF FISH!
ReplyDeleteYour text isn´t too long and it´s readable.
Nice work
Nice and interesting text, today we've seen an interesting movie in physics, which was partly about this lake.. so it would have been pretty interesting if you would have shown some pictures from how huge the lake was before and how small it is now.
ReplyDeleteBut all in all it's really good!