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...

 Here are 11 Factors influencing the distribution of wildlife in East Africa Vegetation . Different types of vegetation are habitats of different animals. Natural forests are habitants of elephants, buffaloes, baboons, gorillas, grasslands are habitats for a variety of herbivores e.g. antelopes gazelles, zebra, wildebeests, giraffes, buffaloes, rhinos, etc. The herbivores attract carnivores e.g. lions, cheetahs, etc. Drainage. Well-drained areas support a variety of plants and animals, while poorly drained areas support only a limited number of plants and animals. Rivers, lakes , and seas are home to a variety of organisms- e.g. birds such as flamingoes, herons, and pelicans, and animals such as crocodiles, hippos, whales, fishes etc. Presence of water. Fish are found in freshwater lakes of Victoria , Kyoga, Turkana, and Tanganyika and in the Indian Ocean. Animals like Hippos and crocodiles live mainly in freshwater lakes and rivers . Climate. Animal species ate spread out ov...

  The following are ways in which wild animals are of significance to the economy of Kenya: They earn the country foreign exchange from tourism it provides employment to the people, national parks, and tourist hotels wild animals help provide alternative land use in semi-arid areas which are not suitable for agriculture some animals provide raw materials for industries wild animals provide a balanced ecosystem in Kenya they earn the government revenue the conservation of wild animals stimulates the development of roads which leads to increased accessibility to some otherwise remote areas they provide game meat for local consumption and export national parks/ game reserves are used for scientific studies and research RELATED POSTS IMPORTANCE OF SOIL STRUCTURE     7 CHARACTERISTICS OF EQUATORIAL CLIMATE    7 ADVANTAGES OF WETLANDS     7 FACTORS INFLUENCING MASS WASTING    5 CONDITIONS FOR EXISTENCE OF CORAL REEFS    3 TYPES ...

 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...