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Serengeti National Park

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A Tanzanian national park of roughly 14,763 km², gazetted as a national park in 1951 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981 for the migration and for its intact savanna predator–prey system. It holds most of the migratory circuit — the southern short-grass plains, the western Grumeti corridor and the northern Mara River reach — and is the base of the Serengeti Biodiversity Programme's sixty-year monitoring record. For visitors it is also the anchor of Tanzania's northern safari circuit, with resident lion, elephant, buffalo and cheetah populations that are present year-round independently of the migration.

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  1. Story
  2. A Tanzanian national park of roughly 14,763 km², gazetted as a national park in 1951 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981 for the migration and for its intact savanna predator–prey system. It holds most of the migratory circuit — the southern short-grass plains, the western Grumeti corridor and the northern Mara River reach — and is the base of the Serengeti Biodiversity Programme's sixty-year monitoring record. For visitors it is also the anchor of Tanzania's northern safari circuit, with resident lion, elephant, buffalo and cheetah populations that are present year-round independently of the migration.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Serengeti National Park
  5. Maasai Mara National Reserve
  6. Connections
  7. Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
  8. Maasai Mara National Reserve
  9. Mara River
  10. Serengeti–Mara Rainfall Gradient
  11. Serengeti Biodiversity Programme
  12. Rinderpest disappears from the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem
  13. The wildebeest population irrupts from roughly 250,000 to over a million
  14. Serengeti National Park inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
  15. Drought kills roughly a quarter of the wildebeest population
  16. Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
  17. The Mara River crossings
  18. TAWIRI Aerial Point Survey estimates 1,366,109 wildebeest
  19. AI satellite survey returns fewer than 600,000, and is contested
  20. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  21. Maasai
  22. Fortress conservation
  23. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
  24. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
  25. Serengeti National Park
  26. Community conservancy (CBNRM model)
  27. Mara River
  28. The Mara–Loita migration collapses by about 81%
  29. Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
  30. The Mara River crossings
  31. African lion (Panthera leo)
  32. Kenya bans sport hunting nationwide
  33. Evidence
  34. Establishes gazettement dates, areas and protection status for the protected areas that carry the migratory circuit
  35. The migratory wildebeest population was estimated at 1,366,109 animals in 2023 by manual triple-count aerial point survey
  36. Continuous multi-decade monitoring and GPS telemetry establish the seasonal route, timing and drivers of the migratory circuit
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