Tropes against African Indigenous communities linger and continue to shape conservation, which has led to “protective” and often punitive regulations.
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Using satellites and AI, scientists have mapped wildebeest across the Serengeti-Mara, offering a new perspective on how this movement can be monitored from space.
Over the past 112 years the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem has experienced major changes in its weather.
Conservation strategies should promote equitable benefits across communities.
Crop raiding is happening more often in the Masai Mara, in different places and at different times of the year.
New science shows that estimates of the African lion numbers are underpinned by weak methods. But several new studies from Kenya and Uganda show that lions can be counted robustly.
Intense and extensive changes mean that the Serengeti-Mara area’s wildlife has an unsure future.
A billion dollars a year would secure Africa’s lions and its landscapes as well as millions of people living nearby.
New findings show that the numbers of cubs a cheetah is able to rear is lower in areas that receive lots of tourists.
Cheetahs face a number of threats in the Maasai Mara landscape but there are efforts underway to help them overcome these.
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