Kenya has a river that never reaches the sea.
The Ewaso Ng’iro starts in the Mau Forest, Kenya’s biggest water tower. It winds down the Rift Valley, past Nguruman, toward Mount Shompole.
Then something strange happens. It stops flowing in a straight line and spreads out into swamp.
That swamp is the reason East Africa’s flamingos exist.
The Engare Ng’iro wetland (4,000 hectares of permanent swamp plus 8,000 hectares of floodplain) filters the river before it reaches Lake Natron. Natron is where lesser flamingos breed. But its water is so alkaline it burns.
Flamingos need this delta to drink and to rinse the salt off their feathers. No wetland, no flamingos.
And the wetland only works because the Mau Forest upstream is intact. Cut the forest, silt the river, and you break a chain that runs from Kenyan highlands to a Tanzanian lake hundreds of kilometres away.
One forest. One river. One of Africa’s greatest wildlife spectacles hanging on all of it.
Photo credit : Paul Mckenzie
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