Why it's incredible: The lake is so alkaline, it burns the skin and eyes of most animals and turns some to "stone." Lake Natron has a chemical makeup that is so harsh, it is uninhabitable for most ...

THINK PINK in the wilds of East Africa. At Tanzania’s Lake Natron, lesser flamingoes are a pastel crowd, their salmon-colored plumage glowing as vast flocks fly overhead or wade in a shallow lake.

IT is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful lakes – owed to its unique reddish pink colour. But tourists must not swim in it, and the water is so harsh that it can turn animals to ...

Lake Natron in Tanzania is one of the most serene lakes in Africa, but it's also the source of some of the most phantasmagorical photographs ever captured — images that look as though living animals ...

What’s happening in Tanzania? This is a question making the rounds in conservation and environmental circles. Why is a nation that has so much invested in its wild lands and wild animals willing to ...

New Delhi: There's a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret - it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A soda ash mining plant planned for Tanzania's Lake Natron, the breeding ground for all of east Africa's endangered lesser flamingoes, ...

After a seven-year hiatus, the proposed project to mine soda ash from Lake Natron in Ngorongoro District is back on track with the National Development Company (NDC) intending to harvest 500,000 tons ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The following is an article written especially for the Joint ATBC-SCB Africa conference to introduce attendees to some of the recent conservation ...

Just 400mm of rain falls on Lake Natron each year, and much of that is 'phantom rain' which evaporate before hitting the surface IT is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful lakes – owed ...