Atlas of Our Changing Environment

Uganda Lake Kyoga is a shallow lake with a surface area of 4000 km2. Half a million people live on its shores as well as on some on the lar...

Kenya Following its founding in 1902 it took roughly 40 years for Nairobi to exceed a population of 100 000 people. By independence, 20 ye...

Uganda Mount Elgon, on Uganda’s eastern border, is a long extinct volcano supporting a variety of habitats, including dense tropical hardwo...

Kenya In spite of its national importance, many areas of the Mau Forest Complex have been deforested or degraded, with much of the damage o...

Kenya The Loita Plains, northeast of world famous Masai Mara National Reserve, are an important part of the larger Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem...

Uganda Seventy kilometers to the west of Kampala is Lake Wamala. After being stocked in 1956 the lake was a productive fishery in the 19...

Kenya Unlike other lakes in Kenya’s Eastern Rift Valley, Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake, receiving most of its inflow from the Aberda...