This wonderful Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal, in eastern Siberia, is a miracle of nature. It's the deepest lake

on Earth and it contains more water than all the Great Lakes of America

put together.

More than 300 rivers flow into Lake Baikal and only one river, the Angara, flows outwards. By the way, if the lake was suddenly no longer be fed with the water from rivers, and the Angara continued to flow, it would take 400 years to all the water gone from the lake.

Baikal is about 25 million years old.

The area of Lake Baikal is seismically active. The last earthquake which occurred there in 2008 was 9 on the Richter scale.

The water in this lake has a lot of oxygen and it is very clear. 

Lake Baikal is the habitat of many unique and endemic plants and animals. For example, there are about 27 species of fish which exist only in these waters.

The origin of the word Baikal:Bai-Kul (Kirgh.) - Rich LakeBaygal (Yakut.) - Very Deep WaterBaygaal-Dalai (Mong.) - Natural SeaBei-Hai (Chinese) - North Sea

Some problems of Baikal:

-Some factories which are located on the shores of Lake Baikal pollute the environment (Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill )

-Illegal fishing and hunting

-deforestation

- rubbish

Some ways to solve these problems:

- We should not pollute the natural environment of Lake Baikal

- We should fight against the industrial pollution of Lake Baikal

- We should take part in the program “World Heritage of UNESCO "