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The Lake Chad Basin Commission was established in 1964 by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, the four countries that contain parts of Lake Chad. [10] [14] About 20% of the basin, lying in these countries, is termed the Conventional Basin. The Lake Chad Basin Commission manages use of water and other natural resources in this area. [9]
Shrinking of Lake Chad over the last 7000 years, with the outline of the British Isles for size comparison Lake Chad 1972–2007. The Chad Basin covers an area of about 1 × 10 ^ 6 km 2 (390,000 sq mi), and is injected by the Chari, Logone, and Yobe Rivers. [7] [5] The water supply of the lake is seasonal.
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The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC or CBLT in French) is an intergovernmental organization that oversees water and other natural resource usage in the basin. There are eight member governments—i.e., Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Algeria, the Central African Republic, Libya, and Sudan—chosen for their proximity to Lake Chad.
The Ennedi Plateau and the Ouaddaï highlands in the east complete the image of a gradually sloping basin, which descends towards Lake Chad. There are also central highlands in the Guera region rising to 1,500 m (4,921 ft). Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa [4] and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent. [5]
The Chad Basin National Park is a national park in northeastern Nigeria, in the Chad Basin, with a total area of about 2,258 km 2. The park is fragmented, with three sectors. The Chingurmi-Duguma sector is in Borno State, in a Sudanian savanna ecological zone. The Bade-Nguru Wetlands and Bulatura sectors are in Yobe State in the Sahel ...
The region borders Kanem Region to the north and east, Hadjer-Lamis Region and Cameroon to the south, Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the northwest.. The region is dominated geographically by Lake Chad, a seasonally fluctuating lake of major importance in this part of Africa. [3]
Lake Chad is a large shallow lake, lying at the center of a large closed drainage basin, with no outlet to the sea. The Lake Chad basin has an area of 2,381,635 square kilometres (919,554 sq mi). The northern portion of the basin is arid or semi-arid, and the southern portion has a seasonally-dry savanna climate. [additional citation(s) needed]