Conservation Lake Tanganyika was established to promote and preserve the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika for the sustainable benefit of its inhabitants through a partnership with the community and the government of Zambia.
Conservation Lake Tanganyika (CLT) came about with the realisation that the decline of biodiversity in and around Nsumbu National Park was substantial and detrimental.
The trend towards decreased fish stocks and biodiversity in the waters around Nsumbu threaten livelihoods that have relied on fishing for millennia.
With high levels of terrestrial poaching threatening vital populations of large mammals such as Elephants, the possibility of sustainable development through tourism is also in decline and threatening the future of one of the most diverse protected areas on Lake Tanganyika, if not in Africa as a whole.