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lake victoria · the nile perch
the nile perch was put into lake victoria in the 1950s to improve the fishing. it ate about 200 species of fish that lived nowhere else. the perch is filleted for europe. the frames are dried and sold to the people who caught them.
method Witte et al. 1992; Pringle 2005.
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=lake%20victoria" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · lake victoria"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- Witte et al. 1992; Pringle 2005.
- range
- ~200 endemic cichlids lost or presumed
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- some species survive in refugia; counts vary.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-108 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0