LAKE VICTORIA BASIN

The use of Mara River Basin resources by humans is unavoidable, but the current nature and scale of utilization is unsustainable. Rapid land-use change has occurred since 1975, as evidenced in the satellite images. The development of irrigation farming along the Mara River has led to a loss of riverine forests, the fragmentation of wildlife habitats and

the extraction of water from the Mara River for agricultural purposes. In an attempt to curb the destruction of the Mara River ecosystem, many local and international stakeholders have been actively involved in a variety of conservation initiatives within the Basin in a bid to devolve the management of the Basin’s resources to the grass roots levels.

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