The problems confronting survival of biodiversity in ancient lakes

2004), where remark-able and unique faunas have evolved. In this paper werefer to the specific examples of the great Rift Lakes,Baikal in Russia, and Tanganyika and Malawi inAfrica.Considerable advances have been made in recentdecades by national and internationally-assisted re-search on the biota and its evolution; biodiversityconservation, human impacts and social issues havealso been studied (L