Serengeti National Park
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How it came to be
The Serengeti covers about 14,760 km² of grassland and savanna in northern Tanzania and continues north into Kenya's Maasai Mara. In 1930 Major Richard Hingston, on a mission for the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, proposed making the Serengeti Game Reserve a national park to shield it from population growth and development, and the park was created in 1940.
Strict protection followed in 1948 under a board of trustees; the resident Maasai had their movements restricted, and the boundaries were fixed in 1951. In 1959 about 8,300 km² in the east was split off as the Ngorongoro Conservation Area so that the Maasai could keep their traditional land use. The Serengeti Research Institute opened at Seronera in 1966 to study the migration.
Each year more than 1.5 million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move between the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara, crossing the Grumeti and Mara rivers. UNESCO listed the park in 1981.
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