Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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A multiple-land-use conservation area of roughly 8,292 km2 in northern Tanzania, created by ordinance in 1959 at the moment Serengeti National Park was closed to human residence. It was explicitly designed as the place where Maasai pastoralists would be permitted to remain, in exchange for leaving the Serengeti plains. That bargain is the central disputed fact of the area's history: residents describe promises of grazing, water and permanence; the Tanzanian government since 2022 has pursued a relocation programme moving residents some 600 km to Msomera in Handeni district. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage site and contains the Ngorongoro Crater caldera. It is a different object from the Serengeti plains region.
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- "It's Like Killing Culture": Human Rights Impacts of Relocating Tanzania's Maasai
- Flawed Plans for Relocation of the Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Not Our World Heritage Site - submission by Maasai Indigenous residents of the NCA, with the 1959 legislative division
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- Serengeti National Parkcreated_by
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