GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

  Serengeti comes from the Maasai chat “Siring” meaning “Endless Plain”, which absolutely is what it means: hundreds of kilometers of collapsed apparent land, more good termed “The Sea of Grass On Plains”. Serengeti National Park is located on Tanzania‘s northern border with Kenya. It is one of the most important African tourism circuits and an extension of the Kenyan Maasai Mara National Park and Simiyu regions.  Below are a few interesting facts about the Serengeti national park. It was first established in the 1920’s and was made a National Park in 1951 and covers 14,750 square kilometers (5,700 square miles) of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest, and woodlands. The Serengeti National Park eco-system is the oldest on the planet. It boasts a diversity of flora and fauna that is unavailable anywhere else on the globe.  In more than 1 million years, little has changed in the park. The wild animals, the plants and waterways are still largely intact as they were one...

  The closest national park to Arusha town – northern Tanzania’s safari capital – Arusha National Park is a multi-faceted jewel, often overlooked by safarigoers, despite offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling diversity of habitats within a few hours. The entrance gate leads into a shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colorful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog. Further north, rolling grassy hills enclose the tranquil beauty of the Momela Lakes , each one a different hue of green or blue. Their shallows sometimes tinged pink with thousands of flamingos. The lakes support a rich selection of resident and migrant waterfowl, and shaggy waterbucks display their large lyre-shaped horns on the ...

 HERE ARE 9 PROBLEMS FACING WILDLIFE IN TANZANIA Poaching which is likely to bring rare species of animals to extinction e.g. rhinos and elephants. Adverse climatic conditions which causes death of some animals due to shortage of water and pasture. Floods which drown animals and destroy plants depriving animals of pasture. Bush fires which destroy large tracts of land and kill animals which may cause extinction of rare species and expose land to agents of erosion. Overgrazing by high population of herbivores resulting in destruction of vegetation which exposes land to agents of erosion destroying habitats of animals causing them to migrate to areas with adequate pasture. Wildlife-human conflict where by pastoralists kills carnivores which kill their livestock. Pests and diseases such as Feline Immunodeficiency Virus which threatens to reduce the lion population in many parts of Africa. Human activities e.g. Overgrazing by livestock where grazing is allowed leading to destructi...