{"id":596181,"date":"2026-10-19T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansasnewsheadlines.com\/news\/story\/596181\/when-lake-naivashas-water-dropped-its-fish-eagles-started-hunting-from-the-backs-of-hippos.html"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:33:10","slug":"when-lake-naivashas-water-dropped-its-fish-eagles-started-hunting-from-the-backs-of-hippos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerockchronicle.com\/news\/story\/596181\/when-lake-naivashas-water-dropped-its-fish-eagles-started-hunting-from-the-backs-of-hippos.html","title":{"rendered":"When Lake Naivasha\u2019s water dropped, its fish eagles started hunting from the backs of hippos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe water was absolutely clear,\u201d says Sarah Higgins of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust in Resilience: Fish Eagles of Naivasha (Part 1). \u201cIf you went fishing, you could watch the fish following your lure in.\u201d Streaming now on The Green Channel.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Resilience: Fish Eagles of Naivasha (Part 1), the fourth episode of Giving Nature a Voice, is streaming on environmental documentary platform The Green Channel<\/div>\n

VANCOUVER, B.C. – October 19, 2026 –<\/strong> The Green Channel has released the fourth episode of Giving Nature a Voice, its documentary series produced by filmmakers in East Africa. Resilience: Fish Eagles of Naivasha (Part 1) is about a Kenyan lake that has changed beyond recognition, and the birds of prey that have found a way to stay.<\/p>\n

When the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson reached Lake Naivasha in 1883, the film recalls, he described it as “a moving mass of waterbirds.” Ornithologist and Naivasha resident Don Turner remembers the lake in the 1960s in much the same way. “It was a bird watcher’s paradise,” he says in the film. “And people who came here just simply couldn’t believe it.”<\/p>\n

Sarah Higgins of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust remembers the water itself. “The water was absolutely clear,” she says. “If you went fishing, you could watch the fish following your lure in.”<\/p>\n

According to the film, the lake began to change in the early 1980s with the growth of two industries that need a lot of water: horticulture and geothermal energy. Greenhouses for flower farms went up along the shore, drawing water directly from the lake. People arrived for the jobs, the lake level dropped and sewage from the town flowed in. The nutrients fed algae blooms that drew oxygen out of the water, and fishing, legal and illegal, grew as more people needed to eat.<\/p>\n

The fish eagles adapted. As the water dropped, the film shows them perching on hippos to get their food.<\/p>\n

The episode is presented by Kenyan-born raptor scientist Dr. Munir Virani, who sets out to explain why the eagles are managing despite the pressure on their lake, and how their home could be saved. The story continues in the next episode.<\/p>\n

Resilience: Fish Eagles of Naivasha (Part 1) is a 2017 film by Munir Virani and Kiran Ghadge. Virani directed and narrated it, Ghadge was director of photography and chief editor, Nick Dunlop was second director of photography and Irfan Kassam recorded sound and additional footage. Andrew Tkach of the Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications is executive producer. The film was funded by the Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications in Kenya, the Sitka Foundation in Vancouver and The Peregrine Fund in Boise, Idaho. It features members of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust, WWF, Imarisha Naivasha and the Lake Naivasha Water Resource Users Association, along with fishermen and residents of the lake. The episode runs 25 minutes and follows Water to Dust and the two parts of Ziwa Victoria.<\/p>\n

Resilience: Fish Eagles of Naivasha<\/a> (Part 1) is streaming now on The Green Channel, the environmental documentary streaming platform.<\/p>\n

About The Green Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Green Channel<\/a> is a Canadian environmental documentary streaming platform with a growing library of exclusive films and series: thegreenchannel.tv<\/p>\n

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