The Serengeti Migration

Every year, starting between January and March, the wildebeest of the Serengeti ecosystem in north Tanzania to southwestern Kenya begin their ‘Great Migration‘. Considered one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world, it’s the largest terrestrial mammal migration that sees at least 1.2 million wildebeest travel from the Ngorongoro area throughout the Serengeti. The wildebeest continually search for the best grazing, and throughout their annual migration on the short grass plains, they give birth to approximately half a million calves. About a quarter million of them die throughout this journey, which ends in the Maasai Mara reservation in Kenya – usually due to starvation, thirst, exhaustion or predators.