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Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people , [2] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. [1] It is 39,206 ha (392.06 km 2) in size at the core of an 8,000 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya- Tanzania border. [2] The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of ...
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over 14,763 km 2 (5,700 sq mi). [1] It is located in eastern Mara Region and northeastern Simiyu Region and contains over 1,500,000 hectares (3,700,000 acres) of virgin savanna. The park was established in 1940.
Maasai pastoralists living in Serengeti National Park were systematically relocated to Ngorongoro, increasing the population of Maasai and livestock living in the Crater. [13] [7] : 48 The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority was established by the Game Park Laws (miscellaneous amendments) Act, 1976, and owns the majority of Ngorongoro ...
Tourists and staff are being evacuated from Kenya's popular Maasai Mara game reserve after floods left parts of it submerged. More than 10 lodges and camps have been flooded after the nearby Talek ...
The Maasai ( / ˈmɑːsaɪ, mɑːˈsaɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), [5] a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer ...
No children younger than 3 are allowed on the feeding deck. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St., is home to five Masai giraffes — females Kipenzi, Iggi and Pippi and males Olmsted (or Olmy) and ...
A herd of African buffalo in Kenya. The wildlife of Kenya refers to its fauna. The diversity of Kenya's wildlife has garnered international fame, especially for its populations of large mammals. Mammal species include lion ( Panthera leo ), cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus) hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius ), African buffalo ( Syncerus caffer ...