Mining spill highlights need to protect Zambia’s vital Kafue River & its fish

Mongabay
Jul 10, 2025, 8:04 am181 pts
KAFUE NATIONAL PARK, Zambia – Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to a wooden pole and draws it toward him. In the net are several small silver fish. At dawn the next morning, as three snowy white cattle egrets (Bubulcus…

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