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The Serengeti: Status, Trends, Threats

Growing threats require radical management and conservation policy changes if Serengeti’s integrity, landscape and wildlife are to be preserved

Document created 28 September 2010, last updated 28 September 2010

“Twice a year ungulate herds of unrivalled size pour across the immense savanna plains of Serengeti on their annual migrations between grazing grounds. The river of wildebeests, zebras and gazelles, closely followed by predators are a sight from another age: one of the most impressive in the world” (read full description of the Serengeti’s natural environment in UNEP-WCMC, link below).

While this vision has become iconic of nature in Africa, the Serengeti is now under pressure from a series of threats that may deeply impact its landscape and wildlife.

A recent project to build a road across the Serengeti plains has raised concern worldwide (see Terra Daily 15 Sep 10, link below).

However other forces have already begun to make an impact on the Serengeti, mostly driven by the growing human population in the surrounding region: habitat destruction from agriculture and other activities, unsustainable developments, illegal hunting, human-wildlife conflicts. It is suggested that these issues are continuing to grow and that current conservation policies are inadequate for preserving this global and unique asset (read article “‘Serengeti shall not die’: transforming an ambition into a reality” in Tropicalconservationscience.org, link below).

Links to external websites:

[wb1]  Terra Daily - 15 Sep 10 - Highway plan would destroy Serengeti: biologists - Plans to drive a 50-kilometre (31-mile) two-lane highway into Tanzania's Serengeti would destroy one of the world's last great wildlife sanctuaries, top biologists warned on Wednesday.

[wb2]  UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) - Click to read World Heritage Sites fact sheet: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK TANZANIA

[wb3]  Tropicalconservationscience.org - Click to read article: ‘Serengeti shall not die’: transforming an ambition into a reality. Sep 2010.

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