In the middle of Tanzania’s arid north sits a lake so hostile that it mummifies species unfortunate enough to come into touch ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is ...

Lake Natron in Tanzania is also worth ... It’s not only the flamingos that are at risk. Soda lakes contain plants and animals found nowhere else on earth including fish species, invertebrates ...

the highly specialised species found in soda lake ecosystems -- including lesser flamingos -- could be lost," he said. The study, published in the journal Current Biology, is the first in which ...

He was taking water samples of the soda lakes of East Africa in ... A small group of flamingos hangs out on the shore of Lake Bogoria. Aidan Byrne Lesser flamingos are nomadic, but they don ...

Lake Natron in Tanzania is also worth ... Related: Is Africa splitting into two continents? It's not only the flamingos that are at risk. Soda lakes contain plants and animals found nowhere ...

The lake needs to be drying out but still contain enough water that it leaves a substrate of soda and salt, out of which the flamingos can build individual mounds. On the mounds, above the danger ...

The caustic waters of Lake Natron form the only breeding ground for east Africa's endangered lesser flamingos, but the Tanzanian government is determined to revive plans to build a soda ash plant at ...

Scientists plan to restore flamingo habitats in Kenyan Soda lakes. Upon the mid-day sun, the graceful pops of floating pink flamingos on the Southern edge of Lake Nakuru National Park create a ...

Data from the water bird counts revealed a declining trend in the number of flamingos within Lake Nakuru which was once renowned for hosting thousands of flamingos. [iStockphoto] Scientists plan ...