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The Serengeti has some of East Africa's finest game areas. [20] Besides being known for the great migration, the Serengeti is also famous for its abundant large predators. The ecosystem is home to over 3,000 lions, 1,000 African leopards, [21] and 7,700 to 8,700 spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). [22] The East African cheetah is also present in ...
Serengeti National Park forms a Lion Conservation Unit since 2005 together with Maasai Mara National Reserve. [11] More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem. [ 12 ] In 1994, an outbreak of canine distemper led to the deaths of approximately one-third of the lion population in the area.
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people , [ 2 ] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
Yusef gave me a quick rundown: Singita has exclusive use of the Grumeti Reserve, a 350,000-acre private concession on the northwestern border of the Serengeti National Park. The reserve is managed ...
The faunal diversity of wild life in Tanzania in its national parks and game reserves is also dramatic. There are 310 mammal species (fourth largest in Africa); 960 species of birds (third place in Africa); and many amphibians and reptiles, which are stated to form the fourth largest population in Africa. [8]
It is the primary cause for a decline of lion populations in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve and Katavi National Park. [101] Although lions and their prey are officially protected in Tsavo National Parks, they are regularly killed by local people, with over 100 known lion killings between 2001 and 2006. [49]
The Ikorongo Game Reserve is a game reserve in Tanzania. The reserve was established in 1993. The site has an area of 602 square kilometres (232 sq mi). [1] It is located along the left side of the northern part of Serengeti National Park. [2] The Ikorongo is rich in species of wild animals as the reserve have several rivers crisscrossing.
Kijereshi Game Reserve boundary map. Kijereshi Game Reserve is located at south-west of Serengeti National Park [3] lying between Latitude 2 o 1” and 4 o 0” South of Equator and Longitude 33 o 3” and 35 o 1” East of Greenwich.