Our Movie!!

Here's a movie we made hope you enjoy!!

Nerpa Song

Here is a nerpa song about nerpas (those are the freshwater seals special to lake baikal.) Hope you enjoy.

Lake Baikal's Animals pictures

Baikal Seal

Siberian Chipmunk

Eurasian Lynx

Eurasian Red Squirrel

Wood Lemming

Brown Bear

Miscellaneous Facts

This lake is home to some of the world’s highest levels of biodiversity, with thousands of different species of fish and marine plants. Omul fish and Nerpa (Baikal Seal) are the most well known animals to be living in the lake and are also endemic, meaning they exist nowhere else in the world.This kind of biodiversity is put down to the lake’s large surface area and the ability for high levels of oxygen to be passed into the water to support life. Lake Baikal’s water is very clear because it contains very few minerals.

Lake Baikal Clip

Here is a video about Lake Baiakl

Modern Day Problems

Today, most of Lake Baikal is unharmed and beautiful. But neighboring towns are starting to dump their sewage into the lake. The pollution is killing off endangered species of fish. It is also destroying animals habitats and the native plants. There are around 1,500 plant and animal species that can only be found in Baikal, including the famous Baikal Seal. Some of the water is a mucky brown, immensely taking away from the beauty of the lake. We can only hope that the sewage dumping will be outlawed before it's too late.

Trash!!!!!!

Formation

Over millions of years smaller lakes formed in the big basin of Lake Baikal. These small lakes came from Mongolia and Zabaikal. There were over three hundred inflowing rivers. Lake Baikal is on a fault that is still active and it causes the water temperature to rise. As a result its highly unusual food web is reorganizing, as warmer water species of plankton become more widespread.