For generations, the movement of animals across Africa on seasonal migrations has been one of the best-known natural phenomena. Each year, thousands of animals move across the landscape, following the ...

New research shows Mara-Loita white-bearded wildebeest populations have lost roughly 90% of their historic migratory footprint since 2020 due to the construction of fencing and other man-made barriers ...

Wildebeest migration has shrunk by 90% in Kenya's Maasai Mara due to fences being built, reveals new research. The annual spectacle - a magnet for eco tourists - has seen a "dramatic" decline over the ...

NAIROBI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The Kenya Wildlife Service on Thursday rejected claims that a new Ritz-Carlton luxury lodge was blocking a wildebeest migration corridor between Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve ...

East Africa’s ‘Great Migration’ is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti-Mara landscape ...

Every 2.5 acres of Serengeti soil holds 4,400 pounds of carbon dioxide. The Great Calving in February is directly responsible for creating the Serengeti carbon sink. A rinderpest virus outbreak once ...

A pioneering study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with international partners has applied AI for the first time to count the Great Wildebeest Migration from satellite images.

In July 2025, veteran safari guide Nick Kleer was leading a trip in Tanzania's Serengeti during the height of East Africa's famous Great Migration when he witnessed a chaotic and disturbing scene: ...