13/06/2022
Forty-two years ago, an underwater national park was born in Malawi, a southern Africa country. It was called Lake Malawi National Park, situated on the western arm of the southern end of the rift valley body of water in Mangochi district.
But three years after the establishment of the park, Professor Kenneth McKaye, a marine biologist, identified a deformation that would put the world heritage site on a decline. He warned that overfishing would deplete fish that eat snails that host bilharzia parasite. His paper was rejected by the Department of Fisheries that had to approve all academic writing on the lake. Yet the prediction came true.
“Overfishing took place and bilharzia became a great human health problem thereafter,” said McKaye in a recent interview.
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NewsEnvironment Birth, death of a world heritage site By Mzati Nkolokosa - June 13, 2022 0 5 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Forty-two years ago, an underwater national park was born in Malawi, a southern Africa country. It was called Lake Malawi National Park, situated on the western arm of the so...
