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Official source connected. An official source has been captured over the network and stored, and Watch reads those records. Watch shows the Atlas editorial corpus alongside accepted observations; each record states its own provenance, and the source list reports each source's own health.
All 783 records — 144 on Earth at 60 subjects, 639 with no place on this map. 15 are scheduled and have not happened. 40 name things whose outcome the corpus does not establish. 6 were also delivered by a source adapter, counted once each. The map draws 60 of 169 subjects holding records here; 178 records sit at subjects it does not draw, and are in the register rather than on the map.
Showing 9 records at Serengeti National Park — the counts above are for the whole of Earth. Everything on Earth →
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- 2023 TAWIRI Aerial Point Survey estimates 1,366,109 wildebeest
- 2022–2023 imagery; published 2025 AI satellite survey returns fewer than 600,000, and is contested
- 1993–1994 Drought kills roughly a quarter of the wildebeest population
- 1981 Serengeti National Park inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
- c. 1977–2018 (40-year record) Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
- 1963–1977 The wildebeest population irrupts from roughly 250,000 to over a million
- c. 1960–1964 Rinderpest disappears from the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem
- 1959 Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
- 1951 Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
What has happened, most recent first; then what fell due without a recorded outcome, most recent first; then what is scheduled, soonest first. No ranking, no relevance score and no severity.
No source has reported. · Official source connected · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) — marks are drawn only from sourced coordinates