Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi contain about 25% of the earth’s unfrozen freshwater and about 18% of the global freshwater fish biodiversity. Lake Malawi by itself has (had?) more than 850 different cichlid species; that is more species in a single family than all the freshwater fish species of the North American continent together! The bad … Continue reading Stuart M. Grant Cichlid Conservation Fund: The Rift Lakes of Africa—Great but at Peril