Lake Malawi National Park protects the southern end of Lake Malawi, in Malawi, including a number of islands and the Cape Maclear peninsula. It was one of the first parks in Africa created to protect freshwater life. The lake is famous for the extraordinary variety of its fish, especially cichlids, small colourful species of which hundreds are found nowhere else, and which are often cited by biologists as a spectacular example of rapid evolution. The park also has baboons, hyraxes, fish eagles and monitor lizards. UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage Site in the 1980s. Overfishing and population pressure on the shore are among the threats it faces.
Before and after
- from 15 October 1979 to 16 January 1992Salvadoran Civil War
- 4 November 1979Iran hostage crisis
- 18 December 1979Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- from 25 December 1979 to 15 February 1989Soviet-Afghan War
- 1980Establishment of Lake Malawi National Park
- c. 1980sDigital Revolution
- 1980Creation of Ada
- 1980Publication of The Name of the Rose
- 1980Rise of transhumanism
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