Lake Natron

Context

  • Millions of pink flamingos transform the alkaline waters of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania into a dazzling sea of fluttering feathers every day.

About Lake Natron

  • Africa’s Great Rift Valley is home to some of the world’s most dangerous lakes.
  • Lake Natron in Tanzania and Lake Bogoria in Kenya are hostile to most forms of life, with surface temperatures soaring up to 40 degrees Celsius.
  • However, these are perfect habitats for flamingos.
  • These lakes, filled with caustic soda and hypersaline water, deter most predators but provide an unexpected haven for fascinating migratory birds.
  • Lake Natron, a Ramsar site on the Tanzania-Kenya border, has a unique composition of warm waters and salt, caustic soda, and magnesite deposits that provide ideal conditions for flamingos to thrive.
Lake Natron
Pic Courtesy: Daily Mail Online

Source: DTE

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