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Great and Lesser Flamingos on Lake Nakuru2. Wide of flamingos on Lake Nakuru3. Wide of flamingos on Lake Nakuru4. Wide of Lake Nakuru National Park entrance 5. Close up of Lake Nakuru flag6. Close of  Lake Nakuru National Park sign 7....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Great and Lesser Flamingos on Lake Nakuru\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of flamingos on Lake Nakuru\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of flamingos on Lake Nakuru\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Lake Nakuru National Park entrance \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of Lake Nakuru flag\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of  Lake Nakuru National Park sign \u003cbr/\u003e7. Various aerials of area around lake showing how much the water levels have receded \u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of flamingos on lake \u003cbr/\u003e12. Dead flamingos on ground \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of dead flamingo \u003cbr/\u003e9. Flamingos on lake\u003cbr/\u003e10. Apollo Kariuki walking along lake stopping to inspect the dead birds\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Apollo Kariuki, Kenyan Wild Life Service (KWS) Senior Research Scientist: \u003cbr/\u003e\" The culprit for the deaths of the birds, the deaths are attributed to a bacterial infection and basically this is an opportunistic bacteria, which when the bird's immune system is suppressed it becomes pathogenic and causes the disease and eventually the death of the birds. So to contain the deaths or rather to control the spread of the disease, especially amongst the birds, what we've been doing is, we have been deep burying the dead carcasses of the flamingos that die. So that is exactly what we have done to the twenty thousand or so that have died so far.\"        \u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of flamingos on lake  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of pelicans on lake  \u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of the United Nations Environment Programme offices in Nairobi, Kenya  \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nehemiah Rotich, Senior Programme Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The water in Lake Nakuru is receding for a number of reasons. One of the reasons is that the catchment has actually been degraded over a long period of time. If you look at the forests which were on the highlands on the east and especially also the forests which were on the Mao, in particular the eastern part of Mao, you'll find that much of those forests have been cleared in the course of time. And as a result of this, the retention of water within the land has reduced tremendously in the sense that because the land has been cleared of vegetation the amount of water percolating into the soil and therefore feeding the rivers for several months of the year is very much reduced. Therefore that water is no longer  readily available throughout the year to maintain a level of water within the lake itself. So that's one of the principal causes. Of course water has also been obstructed  for other human uses from the drainage basin as well. And all these contribute to  less water in the lake.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of Lake Nakuru. \u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide pan of flamingos on lake  \u003cbr/\u003e21.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Nehemiah Rotich, Senior Programmer Officer, UNEP Regional Office:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The effect this would have on the flamingos would be, one it would be anticipated that the amount of water volume that would normally produce food for the flamingos is also reduced in that sense and this does affect the quantity of food available to the flamingos. It's also thought to affect the ideal conditions that are necessary or conducive for production of the Spirulina which is the principal food of the lesser flamingos in particular.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of flamingos on lake \u003cbr/\u003eThe flamingos which make Kenya's Lake Nakuru their home are under threat. \u003cbr/\u003eA report in this month's Science magazine says that thousands of birds are dying, but no direct cause has yet been found.\u003cbr/\u003eResearchers think a deadly bacteria might be to blame. Although the receding waters of Lake Nakuru are impacting on wildlife in the area.\u003cbr/\u003eLake Nakuru in Kenya, bathed in pink and crimson as thousands of Africa's Great and Lesser flamingos flock to its waters. \u003cbr/\u003eBut it is the Lesser Flamingos that have really made Lake Nakuru their home. \u003cbr/\u003eOf the world's six flamingo species (two live in Africa), they are notoriously selective in their feeding habits.\u003cbr/\u003eThey can be distinguished by their deep red crimson bills, unlike the Greater Flamingo, which has a pink bill with a black tip.\u003cbr/\u003eThe elegant birds feed on the abundant algae, which grow in the warm waters of Lake Nakuru. \u003cbr/\u003eBut now the Lesser Flamingos are dying in huge numbers. \u003cbr/\u003eScience magazine reports that more than 30,000 flamingos have been found dead at Lake Nakuru in recent months. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the same time the birds have been gathering in places they have never been seen before.\u003cbr/\u003eThe researchers say that thousands of Lesser Flamingos suddenly appeared at the much smaller Kenyan lake, Lake Oloiden, in September.\u003cbr/\u003eApollo Kariuki is a Senior Research Scientist with the Kenyan Wild Life Service (KWS). \u003cbr/\u003eHe claims a bacterial infection is killing the flamingos. \u003cbr/\u003eKariuki says that so far at least twenty thousand birds have died as a result of the infection. \u003cbr/\u003eThe KWS buries the infected carcasses to try to stop the bacteria spreading.  \u003cbr/\u003eScientists from Berlin and Kenyatta university, who collaborated on the report in Science magazine, suspect that bacterial toxins may be the cause of many of the deaths. \u003cbr/\u003eThey are examining bacteria that photosynthesise and emit toxins called cyanobacteria as a possible cause of the deaths. \u003cbr/\u003eThe researchers argue that the receding water levels in the lake lead to an increase in the salinity of the water. This in turn results in a new mix of cyanobacteria, which produces lethal toxins.\u003cbr/\u003eNehemiah Rotich, Senior Programme Officer with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office says the water levels in Lake Nakuru have dropped as a result of drought and bad water management for irrigation around the lake. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says that extensive deforestation around the lake in recent years reduces the amount of water held in soil which then ends up in the lake. \u003cbr/\u003eRotich says the reduction in water levels also leads to a loss of food for the flamingos. \u003cbr/\u003eScientists estimate that the flamingo population at Nakuru consumes about 250,000 kilogrammes of Spirulina algae per hectare of surface area per year. \u003cbr/\u003eLake Nakuru national park, on the edge of the town of Nakuru lies about 160 kilometres (99 miles) north of Nairobi. \u003cbr/\u003eHuge numbers of tourists visit the park each year to see more than 450 different birds 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