The Great Serengeti Land Grab - The Atlantic
WEBApr 8, 2024 · How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland. By Stephanie McCrummen.
Journalist says a 'land grab' in Tanzania is forcing the Maasai off ...
WEBApr 11, 2024 · It's a spectacular - it's essentially Serengeti National Park, although it's not in the park, but it's beautiful land. So it's quite a production when they come.
Serengeti’s ‘breathtaking’ mammal migration shaped by ... - AAAS
WEBFeb 15, 2024 · Each April, some 200,000 zebras begin their journey 800 kilometers northward through the Serengeti in Tanzania and into Kenya. About 1.3 million wildebeests join the throng, and after nearly 1 month come 400,000 Thomson’s gazelles. The procession is “breathtaking,” says T. Michael Anderson, a savanna ecologist at Wake Forest University.
Serengeti wins top park in Africa for fifth time in a row
WEBOct 16, 2023 · Tanzania's Serengeti has been named Africa's Leading National Park for the fifth time in a row at the World Travel Awards.
The 'Land Grab' Displacing The Maasai People : Fresh Air : NPR
WEBApr 11, 2024 · Atlantic journalist Stephanie McCrummen says foreign interests are acquiring Serengeti territory in Northern Tanzania, effectively displacing indigenous cattle-herders from their traditional...
The urgent need to protect the Serengeti’s intricate web of life
WEBNov 30, 2021 · In the popular imagination, the Serengeti ecosystem is an ancient African landscape of sweeping golden plains, unchanged for eons. Towering giraffes move gracefully in step. Elephant herds wade...
Conservation news on Serengeti
WEBSerengeti News. 26 stories. Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change. Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022. Maasai villages lose important court case as wildlife game reserve trudges on. Laurel Sutherland 1 Oct 2022. Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention. Ed Holt 6 Oct 2021.
The Serengeti-Mara squeeze: One of the world’s most iconic …
WEBMar 31, 2019 · Increased human activity around one of Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is “squeezing the wildlife in its core,” damaging habitat and disrupting the migration routes of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle, an international study has concluded. The findings are published in the journal Science.
Spotted hyenas adapt to climate change in famed Tanzanian park
WEBMay 18, 2022 · Spotted hyenas appear to be adapting to climate change in Tanzania’s famous Serengeti National Park, surprising researchers who expected changing rainfall patterns would force the carnivores to spend more …
The greatest show on Earth: tracking the wildebeest migration …
WEBMar 16, 2021 · The Serengeti’s golden plains may be home to the Big Five, but the unsung heroes of these grasslands are its white-bearded wildebeests. They’re the seams that hold together an ecosystem,...