The Serengeti is rich in natural resources. This increases the demands on this region and makes the protection of the unique natural assets a challenge.

Challenges for the Serengeti Ecosystem

HUMAN PRESSURE

Humans are exerting great pressures on the ecosystem, with the potential to deplete its resources.

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ROAD CONSTRUCTION

A new road through the Serengeti National Park would endanger the Great Migration and potentially trigger the collapse of the Serengeti ecosystem.

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POACHING

Serengeti is a crime scene. Poachers enter the protected areas and set snares, thousands of snares. Although the ongoing poaching crisis in Africa has so far spared Serengeti, it warrants intense protection of the Serengeti’s elephants and black rhinos.

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Challenges

Challenges for the Serengeti Ecosystem

Human influence

Drying out Serengeti

Road cutting through Serengeti

Poaching

HUMAN PRESSURE

Humans are exerting great pressures on the ecosystem, with the potential to deplete its resources.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION

A new road through the Serengeti National Park would endanger the Great Migration and potentially trigger the collapse of the Serengeti ecosystem.

POACHING

Serengeti is a crime scene. Poachers enter the protected areas and set snares, thousands of snares. Although the ongoing poaching crisis in Africa has so far spared Serengeti, it warrants intense protection of the Serengeti’s elephants and black rhinos.