Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor

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1. Story
2. The set of routes across Kajiado and Taita-Taveta group-ranch and farmland linking Amboseli's swamps, the Kilimanjaro forest zone and the Tsavo ecosystem. Amboseli's elephants spend a large share of the year outside the 392 km2 park, so the corridor rather than the park is the functional conservation unit. The corridor's constriction is the clearest local illustration of the Journey's central geographic argument: dispersal routes follow water, water is where cultivation is viable, and subdivision of group ranches into individual parcels converts a permeable rangeland into a mosaic of fenced smallholdings.
3. Knowledge
4. Amboseli National Park
5. Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor
6. Connections
7. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
8. Amboseli National Park
9. Amboseli gazetted as a national park, removing Maasai rights inside the boundary
10. Maasai
11. Photographic safari tourism
12. Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor
13. Amboseli gazetted as a national park, removing Maasai rights inside the boundary
14. Kenya bans sport hunting nationwide
15. Evidence
16. The Amboseli Elephant Research Project, founded by Cynthia Moss and Harvey Croze in 1972, is the longest continuous study of wild African elephants; it documents that elephants of Amboseli National Park (gazetted 1974, roughly 392 km2) depend on dispersal land outside the park held under Maasai tenure.