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Lake Turkana National Parks

Kategorie
Natural
Land
Kenya
Einschreibungsjahr
1997
Kriterien
(viii)(x)
UNESCO-ID
801

Beschreibung

The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus and a variety of venomous snakes. The Koobi Fora deposits, rich in mammalian, molluscan and other fossil remains, have contributed more to the understanding of paleo-environments than any other site on the continent.