According to a recent report, Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is under threat due to human activities and changing weather patterns.
- It is threatening the world’s largest migratory bird colony, prompting environmentalists to issue a warning.
- Millions of pink flamingos transform the alkaline waters of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania every day.
- 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.
- Lake Natron is a Ramsar site on the Tanzania-Kenya border. It has a unique composition of warm waters and salt, caustic soda, and magnesite deposits that provide ideal conditions for flamingos to thrive.
- The Great Rift Valley is a fault line or crack in Earth’s surface that runs along part of East Africa. The valley is part of a larger feature called the East African Rift System.
- The East African Rift is the result of tectonic plate movements. Tectonic plates are large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust.
