The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart

The Great Rift Valley channels a huge diversity of waterways - rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caustic springs and coral seas - spanning from Egypt to Mozambique. Some lake and ocean deeps harbor previously unseen life-forms, while caustic waters challenge life to the extreme. But where volcanic minerals enrich the Great Rifts waterways, they provide the most spectacular concentrations of birds, mammals and fish in all Africa.