Ngorongoro Conservation Area

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1. Story
2. A multiple-land-use conservation area of roughly 8,292 km2 in northern Tanzania, created by ordinance in 1959 at the moment Serengeti National Park was closed to human residence. It was explicitly designed as the place where Maasai pastoralists would be permitted to remain, in exchange for leaving the Serengeti plains. That bargain is the central disputed fact of the area's history: residents describe promises of grazing, water and permanence; the Tanzanian government since 2022 has pursued a relocation programme moving residents some 600 km to Msomera in Handeni district. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage site and contains the Ngorongoro Crater caldera. It is a different object from the Serengeti plains region.
3. Knowledge
4. Serengeti National Park
5. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
6. Connections
7. Serengeti National Park
8. Maasai
9. Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA)
10. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
11. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
12. Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
13. Maasai Mara National Reserve
14. Mara River
15. Serengeti–Mara Rainfall Gradient
16. Serengeti Biodiversity Programme
17. Rinderpest disappears from the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem
18. The wildebeest population irrupts from roughly 250,000 to over a million
19. Serengeti National Park inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
20. Drought kills roughly a quarter of the wildebeest population
21. Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
22. The Mara River crossings
23. TAWIRI Aerial Point Survey estimates 1,366,109 wildebeest
24. AI satellite survey returns fewer than 600,000, and is contested
25. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
26. Maasai
27. Fortress conservation
28. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
29. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
30. Evidence
31. Maasai residents of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are being relocated to Msomera in Handeni district without free, prior and informed consent, with withdrawal of health, education and water services used as pressure to move.
32. The Tanzanian relocation plan for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area targets tens of thousands of residents, and destination sites lack adequate water and grazing while promised services remain undelivered.
33. Two 1959 statutes closed Serengeti National Park to human habitation and created the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (about 8,292 km2) as a multiple-land-use area for Maasai evicted from the plains; Maasai residents state in their own submission that permanent residence and grazing were the consideration for leaving the Serengeti, and that later restrictions and the relocation programme break that undertaking.