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Lutembe Bay

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Basin countries
  
Uganda

Area
  
8 kmĀ²

Designated
  
September 15, 2006

Established
  
2006

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Surface elevation
  
1,130 metres (3,710 ft)

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Lutembe Bay is a wetland on the edge of Lake Victoria.

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Conservation

Lutumbe Bay is one of Uganda's 33 Important Bird Areas and since 2006 a Ramsar-listed wetland of international importance. The bay is notable for its population of as many as 1.5m white-winged tern.

in 2013 a portion of the wetland was illegally filled with soil by the flower export giant Rosebud Ltd.

References

Lutembe Bay Wikipedia