The Wildlife Division collaborates with local, national and international key stakeholders and partners such as the National Wetlands Working Group, Leicester University, the Ngorogoro and Longido District Facilitation Teams, Wildlife Conservation. At 550 square kilometres, Lake Natron is an enormous body of sodorous water, the main breeding location for the famous flamingos of the Great Rift Valley. Natron also attracts up to 100,000 migrant waders during the European winter.
Key activities include: a workshop to complete a draft Wetlands Inventory and Resources Assessment Guide training workshops to develop capacity for conducting resources assessment, application of the Wetlands Reserves guidelines and sharing/validating of results with key stakeholders development of legislation guidelines for designation of Wetlands Reserve Areas processing of the Lake Natron Wetlands Reserve through Cabinet development of CEPA materials (in Swahili) to raise awareness on the zonation plan, Wetland Reserve and Ramsar Site. There is some large wildlife in the area, but Natron’s main faunal claim to fame is as the only known breeding ground for East Africa’s 2.5 million lesser flamingos, which congregate at an inaccessible part of the lake between August and October.
It is close to Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, and Ngorongoro Crater. The project is to provide the knowledge basis for informed decision-making on the zonation for current and future local livelihood and economic investments, with the eventual creation of Wetland Reserve Areas (in accordance with the 2009 Wildlife Act) to protect the breeding grounds from developmental activities. Lake Natron is ideal to visit The lake is the breeding site for thousands of Flamingos in Africa (75 of the world population) Located in northern Tanzania on the border with Kenya -with an area of 1.040 km². The project aims to support on-going activities aimed at implementing the national Single Species Action Plan for the Lesser Flamingo ( Phoeniconaias minor) and eventual zonation of the Lake Natron Ramsar Site and its surrounds to ensure its wise use, as well as contribute to the ongoing Integrated Management Planning process which will be incorporated in the District Development Plan of the two relevant districts governments, in accordance with the 2008 Ramsar Advisory Mission to this site. The already fragile, drought-prone and semi-desert environment faces increasing pressure due to growing human activities in both Kenya and Tanzania, including planned large-scale economic development projects (hydro-power generation, irrigation, soda mining and tourism). Blood-red from the bacteria that live in it, the salt lake is steaming hot, with temperatures that can reach up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the New Scientist. The Lake Natron Basin is the only known breeding site for the 2.5 million East African Lesser Flamingoes. Other than serving as a breeding area for the endangered Lesser Flamingo and as a home to certain kinds of algae and bacteria, Lake Natron is inhospitable to life.
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