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Serengeti National Park
(in Tanzania) is undoubtedly the best-known
wildlife sanctuary in the world. It is one of the most important
wildlife areas in the world, where 90% of the film series produced on
African animals take place in this
Savannah ecosystem. '
Coverage: The national park is
Tanzanian's
oldest, second largest, and the most famous in the world. Covers an
area of 14,763 square kilometers, lying between the shores of
Lake Victoria
in the west,
Lake Eyasi
and
Ngorongoro
Conservation Area in the south, and the Great Rift
Valley to the east.
(see the Map)
It provides a vast international tourist attraction
site, to be the only place in Africa where herds of
wildlife migrate naturally.
Wildlife: With more than two million
wildebeest, half a million Thomson's gazelle, and a quarter of a
million zebra, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in
the world.
Its unique combination of
diverse
habitats enables it to support more than 30 species of
large Herbivores and nearly 500 species of birds. As such, it offers
the most complex and least disturbed ecosystem on earth. Animals
including lions, leopards, elephants, rhino, hippo,
giraffes, baboons and wild dogs
Its landscape, which was
originally formed by volcanic activity, has been sculptured by the
concerted action of wind, rain, and sun to form kopjes. In
1981, the park was Internationally recognized as part of Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve (with the
adjoining Maswa Game Reserve) under
UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere
Program. The park has also been inscribed as a world heritage site.
Migration: This is the place
where wildlife migration (Wildebeest Migration in Serengeti)
occurs each year. It constitutes the
most breathtaking event in the animal kingdom ever known to
humans. As the dry season intensifies, the herds drift out
towards west, one group to the north to Lake Victoria and
the other to the northeast for permanent waters of Mara
Rivers and tributaries
The
national park has been recording a growing trend of tourist yearly, and
offer excellent game viewing with real wilderness atmosphere
There lodges,
luxury tented camps, and campsites well distributed inside
and outside the Serengeti National Park
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