Living Lakes (Global Nature Fund)
Since 1998, the Global Nature Fund's Living Lakes Network has protected and restored lakes and wetlands with 130 member organizations in more than 60 countries (Global Nature Fund).
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Explain Like I'm 10
- Living Lakes is a team of groups that look after lakes all over the world.
- They clean up trash and help people near lakes earn money without harming nature.
- In Mongolia they help protect a lake that is about 2 million years old.
The Five W's of Living Lakes
Who
The Global Nature Fund (GNF), a nature conservation foundation with offices in Radolfzell, Bonn and Berlin, Germany, and the 130 member organizations of the Living Lakes Network.
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What
Protecting and restoring lakes and wetlands: removing plastic waste from waterways, pushing for strong protections and creating sustainable incomes for local communities.
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Where
More than 60 countries. One project protects Lake Hovsgol in Mongolia's Hovsgol National Park with local partner ecoDevshilt.
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Why
Lakes, wetlands and other freshwater A community of living things and the place they live, like a reef or a forest, all depending on each other. Glossary are crucial in the fight against the climate and The variety of all living things in a place: plants, animals, fungi and tiny microbes. Glossary crises, and for the well-being of billions of people.
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Impact Statement
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At Lake Hovsgol, a new waste management system keeps the national park clean and removes illegal dumps, while stronger local cooperatives help nomadic families earn a living.
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Living Lakes helps protect Lake Hovsgol, a lake about 2 million years old, and the nomadic families who live beside it.
How This Saves People & the Planet
For People
GNF combines nature protection with fighting poverty. Its drinking water projects have given 146,929 people access to clean water (organization figure).
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For Nature
Healthy lakes and wetlands are home to rich wildlife. At Hovsgol, cleaning up trash protects a sensitive ecosystem threatened by growing tourism.
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