Lake Bam

Lake Bam, in the Centre-Nord region a hundred kilometers from Ouagadougou, is undergoing enormous environmental challenges such as silting, drastic reduction of aquatic life and conflicts of interest the 28,000 people living from this lake see their livelihoods threatened, Burkina Faso..

Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR

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Keywords:

Africa, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso, aquatic environment, Water, water resources, lake, climate change, CIFOR, horizontal, Centre-Nord, BF.