In fact, they no longer throng Kenya’s Maasai Mara in large numbers in search of food and water. The wildebeest join half a million gazelle and 200,000 zebra in the perilous trek from the Serengeti Park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara reserve every year. It is also home to one of the wonders of the world: the Serengeti-Mara wildebeest migration. The area is made up of pastoral community lands and 12 major protected areas, including the world-famous Maasai Mara national reserve and the Serengeti National Park. Veldhuis said there is an urgent need to rethink how boundaries of protected areas are managed to be able to conserve biodiversity.

Source: The Star April 17, 2019 03:00 UTC