Chad - Climate - Lake Chad

Awalu Garba on a boat trip on Lake Chad. A former fisherman, he switched to driving passengers on his moped from what used to be a harbor in Guité to the new harbor a mile away. The lake has shrinked to a twentieth of the size it was in 1963, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Major overgrazing and unsustainable irrigation projects from all the countries who share border in the area are contributing factors, resulting in loss of vegetation and a drier climate. With a projec (Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images)
Awalu Garba on a boat trip on Lake Chad. A former fisherman, he switched to driving passengers on his moped from what used to be a harbor in Guité to the new harbor a mile away. The lake has shrinked to a twentieth of the size it was in 1963, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Major overgrazing and unsustainable irrigation projects from all the countries who share border in the area are contributing factors, resulting in loss of vegetation and a drier climate. With a projec (Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images)
Chad - Climate - Lake Chad
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