There is been some bad news from the tourism sector stating that there have some signals that have been got indicating a possibility of seeing the common Serengeti Migration where large numbers of animals usually more than 2.5 million move from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park into Kenya’s Maasai-Mara game reservation may not happen this year. According to some experts at Serengeti, this is likely because originally, these animals used to spend about two months in Masai Mara but in the recent past, they have been spending just a few weeks and then cross back and last year, they spent the shortest time ever.
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This is migration increases on the number of human activities at Masai- Mara as it is Kenyan part of the Serengeti Eco-system. It is likely that this annual migration of wildebeests might eventually stop going to the Kenyan sanctuary altogether so said Mr. Godson Kimaro who is the senior Park Warden at Serengeti National Park.
Meanwhile, he quote a scientific study done by the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) which had warned about the possible out come of these changes in the wildebeest migratory patterns in future and just as indicated, the trend has started to change following the fact that last year they spent just 8 weeks in Kenya and went back to Serengeti national park. This year, this event involving 1.5 wildebeests, 400,000 zebras and thousands of antelopes, the predatory hyenas and lions, seems to be having a lot more time than usual in the southern part of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
They usually cross to Kenya in mid-August but it looks like by that time this year the animals will not be as yet to the crossing point thus the fear that this year this fabulous event might not come to pass and yet it attracts thousands of tourists therefore both governments get a lot of revenue from that attraction.
