Serengeti National Park inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
The park, gazetted in 1951, was inscribed as a natural World Heritage Site in 1981, with the migration cited among the values protected. Ngorongoro Conservation Area had been inscribed two years earlier, in 1979.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Serengeti National Park · national park · Tanzania
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western Plains · protected area (multiple land use) · Tanzania
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Protected area records for Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Maasai Mara National Reserve
Establishes gazettement dates, areas and protection status for the protected areas that carry the migratory circuit
UNESCO World Heritage Centre; UNEP-WCMC World Heritage Datasheets; Narok County Council · Serengeti inscribed 1981; Ngorongoro inscribed 1979 · Partly verified
UNESCO World Heritage List entry 156 (Serengeti National Park, inscribed 1981) https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/156/ and entry 39 (Ngorongoro Conservation Area, inscribed 1979, 8,292 km², established 1959) https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/39/; UNEP-WCMC World Heritage Datasheet for Ngorongoro. Maasai Mara figures (1961 sanctuary, present 1,510 km²) from standard reference works citing Narok County Council, not from a primary gazettement instrument.
Recorded on Serengeti National Park
- Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
- Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains
- Rinderpest disappears from the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem
- The wildebeest population irrupts from roughly 250,000 to over a million
- Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
- Serengeti National Park inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
- Drought kills roughly a quarter of the wildebeest population
- AI satellite survey returns fewer than 600,000, and is contested
- TAWIRI Aerial Point Survey estimates 1,366,109 wildebeest
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- TAWIRI Aerial Point Survey estimates 1,366,109 wildebeest · 2023
- AI satellite survey returns fewer than 600,000, and is contested · 2022–2023 imagery; published 2025
- Drought kills roughly a quarter of the wildebeest population · 1993–1994
- Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core · c. 1977–2018 (40-year record)
- The wildebeest population irrupts from roughly 250,000 to over a million · 1963–1977
- Rinderpest disappears from the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem · c. 1960–1964
- Serengeti closed to residence; Ngorongoro Conservation Area created and Maasai evicted from the plains · 1959
- Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists · 1951