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Slide 14: A heavy silt-laden stream on the Zaire-Nile Crest due to accelerated erosion on the southern edge of the Gishwati Forest Preserve. Excessive sedimentation such as this is clogging waterways and ponds downstream from agriculture which is expanding into the highlands on the southern edge of the Preserve. This site is on on the road from Gisenyi to Kibuye on the Rwanda side of Lake Kivu. 
Image credit: photo by Robert E. Ford, Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Utah 
 

Created 12 February 1998. Last updated 13 May 1998  by JDH.