Earth from Space: Lake George

Friday, January 31, 2020 - 06:50 in Earth & Climate

Video: 00:03:07 Ahead of World Wetlands Day, celebrated internationally each year on 2 February, this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme features a Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over Lake George in western Uganda. In 1988, Lake George was designated as Uganda’s first site under the Ramsar Convention - an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.See also Lake George, Uganda to download the image.

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