Lake Natron

There are lakes that peel the flesh off your bones.

Lake Natron in Tanzania is so alkaline it can burn through skin.

It also mummifies animals that fall in, leaving creepy stone-like statues behind.

And now we look in on the adventures of the technical explanation guy.

So there's a lot at stake here.

But talking about the lake right in Lake Natron in Tanzania, it's fed by the same river system as Lake Magadi, right? The one that feeds

Magadi, yeah.

And it's also named in that 1911 lease.

Talking about how what happens in one place can affect so many other things.

Mm-hmm.

On the Tanzania side, their lake, that Lake Natron, is the world's most important breeding ground for flamingos.

And so conservationists are also saying, hey, wait a second.