Bangweulu


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Bangweulu

(băng'wo͞o`lo͞o) or

Bangweolo

(–wēō`lō), lake and swamps, c.3,800 sq mi (9,840 sq km), NE Zambia. The lake is c.50 mi (80 km) long and 25 mi (40 km) wide. Commercial fishing is pursued in the lagoons of the swamps. The swamps are formed largely by the flooding of the lower Chambeshi River, which enters Lake Bangweulu from the east. The lake is drained in the S by the Luapula River, a tributary of the Congo.

Bangweulu

Lake. a shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq. km (3800 sq. miles), including swamps
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1998 'Participation of local fishermen in scientific fisheries data collection: A case study from the Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia' Fisheries Management and Ecology 5(1), 81-94
Rivers as resources, rivers as borders: community and transboundary management of fisheries in the Upper Zambezi River floodplains
A report on the parasitic Copepoda and Branchiura of the fishes of Lake Bangweulu (northern Rhodesia).
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Bangweulu means "where the water meets the sky" and it is easy to see why.
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In 1995, for example, villagers living near Zambia's Bangweulu Swamp wildlife preserve nearly starved after elephants from the park began trampling farmers and destroying crops.
The price of habitat: in southern Africa, increasing conflict between elephants and humans is raising painful questions about cohabitation on a crowded planet
The first time I hunted this odd, swamp-dwelling antelope was in Zambia's Bangweulu clear back in 1984.
The swamp fairy: a sneaky swamp-dwelling antelope confounds Boddington and makes bongo seem a pushover
He said to ensure efficient utilisation of water transport across the nation, the Government would soon commission 12 big water vessels for passenger and cargo on Lake Bangweulu, Lake Mweru, and Zambezi
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On one particular morning I was huddled, shivering, against the thatched walls of a pole platform--what they call a machan--overlooking papyrus reedbeds near Zambia's Lake Bangweulu.
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