The Great Serengeti Land Grab - The Atlantic
Apr 8, 2024 · How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland. By Stephanie McCrummen.
Africa’s famous Serengeti and Maasai Mara are being hit by …
Oct 3, 2024 · The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which includes Kenya’s Maasai Mara and Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, is one of the most famous and wildlife-rich areas in Africa.
Serengeti’s ‘breathtaking’ mammal migration shaped by ... - AAAS
Feb 15, 2024 · Each April, some 200,000 zebras begin their journey 800 kilometers northward through the Serengeti in Tanzania and into Kenya. About 1.3 million wildebeests join the throng, and after nearly 1 month come 400,000 Thomson’s gazelles. The procession is “breathtaking,” says T. Michael Anderson, a savanna ecologist at Wake Forest University.
The 'Land Grab' Displacing The Maasai People : Fresh Air : NPR
Apr 11, 2024 · Atlantic journalist Stephanie McCrummen says foreign interests are acquiring Serengeti territory in Northern Tanzania, effectively displacing indigenous cattle-herders from their traditional ...
The greatest show on Earth: tracking the wildebeest migration …
Mar 16, 2021 · Every summer, in relentless pursuit of new grass, wildebeests cross the watery border to Kenya, before being lured back by rains between October and November and heading hundreds of miles south to...
Serengeti wins top park in Africa for fifth time in a row
Oct 16, 2023 · Tanzania's Serengeti has been named Africa's Leading National Park for the fifth time in a row at the World Travel Awards.
The urgent need to protect the Serengeti’s intricate web of life
Nov 30, 2021 · In the popular imagination, the Serengeti ecosystem is an ancient African landscape of sweeping golden plains, unchanged for eons. Towering giraffes move gracefully in step. Elephant herds wade...
The Serengeti-Mara squeeze: One of the world’s most iconic …
Mar 31, 2019 · Increased human activity around one of Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is “squeezing the wildlife in its core,” damaging habitat and disrupting the migration routes of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle, an international study has concluded. The findings are published in the journal Science.
Conservation news on Serengeti
Serengeti News. 26 stories. Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change. Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022. Maasai villages lose important court case as wildlife game reserve trudges on. Laurel Sutherland 1 Oct 2022. Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention. Ed Holt 6 Oct 2021.
Serengeti News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation
Feb 16, 2022 · Africa’s famous Serengeti and Maasai Mara are being hit by climate change – a major threat to wildlife and tourism. Joseph Ogutu, University of Hohenheim. Over the past 112 years the...