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}}[[File:Lake Bangweulu. | }}[[File:Lake Bangweulu.jpg|thumb|Lake Bangweulu (red) and the Congo River system]] | ||
'''Bangweulu''' — 'where the water sky meets the sky' — is one of the world's great wetland systems, comprising '''''Lake Bangweulu''''', the '''''Bangweulu Swamps''''' and the '''''Bangweulu Flats''''' or floodplain.<ref name=Spectrum>Camerapix: ''Spectrum Guide to Zambia.'' Camerapix International Publishing, Nairobi, 1996.</ref> Situated in the upper [[Congo River]] basin in [[Zambia]], the Bangweulu system covers an almost completely flat area roughly the size of [[Connecticut]] or [[East Anglia]], at an elevation of 1,140 m straddling Zambia's [[Luapula Province]] and [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]]. It is crucial to the economy and biodiversity of northern Zambia, and to the birdlife of a much larger region, and faces [[environmental stress]] and [[Habitat conservation|conservation]] issues.<ref name="Ramsar">Halls, A.J. (ed.), 1997. "Wetlands, Biodiversity and the Ramsar Convention: The Role of the Convention on Wetlands in the Conservation and Wise Use of Biodiversity". Ramsar Convention Bureau, Gland, Switzerland</ref> | '''Bangweulu''' — 'where the water sky meets the sky' — is one of the world's great wetland systems, comprising '''''Lake Bangweulu''''', the '''''Bangweulu Swamps''''' and the '''''Bangweulu Flats''''' or floodplain.<ref name=Spectrum>Camerapix: ''Spectrum Guide to Zambia.'' Camerapix International Publishing, Nairobi, 1996.</ref> Situated in the upper [[Congo River]] basin in [[Zambia]], the Bangweulu system covers an almost completely flat area roughly the size of [[Connecticut]] or [[East Anglia]], at an elevation of 1,140 m straddling Zambia's [[Luapula Province]] and [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]]. It is crucial to the economy and biodiversity of northern Zambia, and to the birdlife of a much larger region, and faces [[environmental stress]] and [[Habitat conservation|conservation]] issues.<ref name="Ramsar">Halls, A.J. (ed.), 1997. "Wetlands, Biodiversity and the Ramsar Convention: The Role of the Convention on Wetlands in the Conservation and Wise Use of Biodiversity". Ramsar Convention Bureau, Gland, Switzerland</ref> | ||