Maasai

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1. Story
2. A Nilotic-speaking pastoralist people of northern Tanzania and southern Kenya whose seasonal grazing systems overlap almost exactly with the reserves of the Serengeti–Mara and Amboseli ecosystems. Maasai communities were removed from Serengeti National Park in 1959, lost rights inside Amboseli on its 1974 gazettement, and are the subject of an ongoing relocation programme from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Loliondo begun in 2022. Maasai institutions and human rights organisations describe these as forced evictions carried out without free, prior and informed consent; the Tanzanian government describes them as voluntary relocation necessary to relieve population and livestock pressure on a World Heritage landscape. Both accounts are recorded here; they are not equivalent in the evidence available, and the disagreement is itself part of the record.
3. Knowledge
4. Serengeti National Park
5. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
6. Amboseli National Park
7. Maasai
8. Connections
9. Amboseli National Park
10. Serengeti National Park
11. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
12. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
13. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
14. Amboseli gazetted as a national park, removing Maasai rights inside the boundary
15. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
16. Maasai
17. Photographic safari tourism
18. Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor
19. Amboseli gazetted as a national park, removing Maasai rights inside the boundary
20. Kenya bans sport hunting nationwide
21. Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
22. Maasai Mara National Reserve
23. Mara River
24. Serengeti–Mara Rainfall Gradient
25. Serengeti Biodiversity Programme
26. Rinderpest disappears from the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem
27. The wildebeest population irrupts from roughly 250,000 to over a million
28. Serengeti National Park inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
29. Drought kills roughly a quarter of the wildebeest population
30. Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
31. The Mara River crossings
32. TAWIRI Aerial Point Survey estimates 1,366,109 wildebeest
33. AI satellite survey returns fewer than 600,000, and is contested
34. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
35. Maasai
36. Fortress conservation
37. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
38. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
39. Serengeti National Park
40. Maasai
41. Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA)
42. Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
43. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
44. Evidence
45. 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.
46. 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.
47. 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.