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game reserve
Close ✕Maasai Mara National Reserve
A Kenyan national reserve of about 1,510 km² in Narok County, contiguous with Serengeti National Park across the international border and managed by county authorities rather than by Kenya…
-1.5, 35.1 · approximate · sanctuary 1961; present boundaries from 1984 – present
On the world
- A place in: The Great Migration · 3 places
- Joined to: Serengeti National Park — Maasai Mara National Reserve · 2 places
- A place in: Safari Across Africa · 12 places
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Connections · 3 of 6
- is borders of Serengeti National Park — The two protected areas are contiguous across the Tanzania–Kenya border and function as one ecosystem for the migratory herds
- is flows through of Mara River — The Mara runs south-west from the Mau Escarpment through the Maasai Mara National Reserve before entering Tanzania
- bounded by Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) — Mechanised wheat farming, fencing and settlement on the Loita Plains outside the reserve cut the Mara–Loita wildebeest population by about 81% between 1977–78 and 2016
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