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Close ✕Amboseli National Park
A small Kenyan national park of roughly 392 km2 beneath Kilimanjaro, gazetted as a national park in 1974 out of land previously held under Maasai tenure, which removed resident grazing and…
-2.6, 37.3 · approximate · Reserve status from 1948; national park from 1974
On the world
- A place in: Safari Across Africa · 12 places
- Joined to: Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor — Amboseli National Park · 2 places
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Connections
- is connects of Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor — The corridor is the functional extension of a 392 km2 park that cannot contain the populations it is credited with protecting.
- is revenue model of of Photographic safari tourism — Kenya's 1977 hunting ban made photographic tourism the sole legal wildlife revenue stream for parks such as Amboseli and for the landholders around them.
- is displaced from of Maasai — The 1974 gazettement converted land under Maasai tenure into a national park and extinguished grazing and water rights inside the boundary.
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