Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park was established nearly a hundred years ago as a colonial game reserve, made a National Park in 1951, and later endorsed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. It represents one of the last remaining areas of untouched wilderness, situated within the broader Serengeti ecosystem spanning 25,000 square kilometres, with the protected national park comprising almost 15,000 square kilometres. The geography ranges from apparently limitless grass plains in the south, fertilized by volcanic ash rich in life-giving phosphates, to wooded highlands in the east, crossed by rivers and studded with island outcrops of eroded granite called kopjes, home to hundreds of vulnerable inhabitants such as the rare black rhinoceros. The climate of the Serengeti is defined by periods of rain and drought.