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About Serengeti |
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This is Tanzania’s most famous and largest national park. This park is also
part of the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Only an imaginary borderline separates the two. Huge
herds of plains game occupy this vast grassland . Lion, Cheetah, Leopard are the main
predators living in this area with other species of wildlife and birdlife.
Serengeti’s biggest attraction is the annual Wildebeest migration. Triggered by the
rains, enormous herds of Wildebeest, Zebra, Thompson’s Gazelle and numerous other
species of plains game make this trek from the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya in search
of new grazing land.
Serengeti National Park covers 14,763 square miles
of rolling plains (Serengeti means ‘endless plains’ in the Masai language). Over
3 million animals are cohabitants of the park, making it one of the most diverse parks in
Africa.
In the 1920’s professional hunters conducted
safaris in this area. In 1929, the British government established a portion of the
area for a game reserve, despite the objections of ecologists and zoologists. Finally, in
1951, Serengeti National Park was established as a wildlife refuge. The Tanzanian
government has continued its efforts to keep the park as a refuge despite a growing
population. |
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