5 More Parks to Boost Tourism

5 More Parks To Boost Tourism
By DAILY NEWS Reporter 1 day ago




PRESIDENT John Magufuli has approved a proposal to upgrade five game reserves into national parks to widen the country’s tourism scope.

Natural Resources and Tourism Minister, Dr Hamisi Kigwangalla, broke the good news in the National Assembly here on Tuesday while winding up the ministry’s budget estimates for the 2018/2019 fiscal year.

He named the upgraded game reserves as Burigi, Biharamuro, Kibisi, Ibanda and Chief Rumanyika. “The president’s approval is timely as the ministry strives to open up other tourist corridors in the country,” he said.

Dr Kigwangalla told the House that the ministry was taking advantage of Chato Airport to open the North-East tourist corridor, hinting that the ministry has further forwarded other requests to the Head of State to have more game reserves upgraded.

They are Swaga Swaga, Mkungunero, Rungwa, Mhesi, Ugala, Kibosi and Moyowosi. The minister promised to work hard to improve infrastructure to attract more tourists in the areas.

“We intend to have eight million tourists in the next seven years to meet our target of collecting 16 billion US dollars (over 36tri/-) by 2025 … we have therefore to open new tourism sites,” the minister argued.

He pointed out that the northern corridor is almost exhausted with many tourists, making it difficult even to maintain the roads. He said every month funds are incurred in road maintenance, while there are other tourist attractions with similar animals but remaining idle.

Speaker of the National Assembly Job Ndugai had advised the ministry to consider legislators’ concerns over the setting up of new beacons. Many lawmakers had proposed the suspension of the exercise pending consensus of all parties involved.

He said it will be awkward if Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) will continue with the new borders’ demarcation by putting beacons in areas already occupied by people.

“It is better you settle the differences first then go on with the fixing of the new beacons instead of fixing them while knowing there are pending issues which need attention,” advised Speaker Ndugai.

He said the fixing of new beacons has been a source of conflicts especially in game reserves, creating hatred between residents and government officials.

In another development, the government has expressed its commitment to protect and preserve the ecology of Selous Game Reserve and mitigate any environmental concern that might be occasioned during the execution of Stiegler's Gorge Hydroelectric Project.

Dr Kigwangalla said the government has formed a Leadership Committee for implementation of the project within the game reserve, one of the world's largest World Heritage sites, along Rufiji River.

“We have sent our new proposals to the Committee … we want to use the Voluters Pay Principle (VPP) for creation of small levy that will be returned for environmental conservation,” the minister said.

He pointed out that trees that would be cut in execution of the project will be sold commercially. The minister said that the trees will be harvested instead of being destroyed by a bulldozer.

According to the minister, projections show that the harvested trees will generate between 400bn/- to 600bn/-, the amount that will be spent in conserving the area.

Another environmental strategy at the area is deployment of expert team from at least eight ministries and other government institutions.

The team, said the minister, is at the project areas taking different species and conducting researches to identify each of them to establish the exotic species.

The species are of trees, grasses, crawling animals, swimming animals, fish and birds, which, according to the minister, will be preserved in another area to be replenished later.

The ministry is digging three dams in conjunction with the project, which will be used to preserve the species during the transition period.

https://dailynews.co.tz/news/2018-05-24-5-More-Parks-To-Boost-Tourism.aspx

Lol, upgrading a game reserve to a national park doesn't increase revenue. Maasai Mara is a game reserve and it's revenue is higher than all national parks in Kenya.

NairobiWalker said:

Lol, upgrading a game reserve to a national park doesn't increase revenue. Maasai Mara is a game reserve and it's revenue is higher than all national parks in Kenya.

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Tihahahhaaaaa.... Crazy Danganyikans.

NairobiWalker said:

Lol, upgrading a game reserve to a national park doesn't increase revenue. Maasai Mara is a game reserve and it's revenue is higher than all national parks in Kenya.

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FYI Masai mara has tried several times to be a National park as the status comes with good package and failed a reason couldn't meet the criteria. For that reason Masai mara is not a World heritage site! In short, Masai mara doesn't have Environmental Management Plan.

Geza Ulole said:

FYI Masai mara has tried several times to be a National park as the status comes with good package and failed a reason couldn't meet the criteria. For that reason Masai mara is not a World heritage site! In short, Masai mara doesn't have Environmental Management Plan.

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Proof?

NairobiWalker said:

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The African Great Rift Valley - The Maasai Mara
Kenya
Date of Submission: 12/02/2010
Criteria: (v)(vii)(x)
Category: Mixed
Submitted by:
Kenya Wildlife Service
State, Province or Region:
Rift Valley Province (Narok and Transmara Districts)
Coordinates: S01 30 E35 00
Ref.: 5512
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Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party

Description


The National Reserve is situated in Rift Valley Province, Narok and Transmara Districts. The site adjoins the Serengeti National Park along the Kenya-Tanzania border, and is considered part of the same ecosystem. The National Reserve is Kenya's most-visited protected area, world famous for its high density of herbivores and predators, and the annual migrations of Wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus.

The Maasai Mara lies in the Great Rift Valley (fault line) some 3,500 miles (5,600km) long from Ethiopia's Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and into Mozambique. It is characterized by a wide valley and a towering escarpment in the hazy distance. Habitats in the Maasai Mara are varied, including open rolling grassland, riverine forest, Acacia woodland, swamps, non-deciduous thickets, boulder-strewn escarpments, and Acacia, Croton and Tarchonanthus scrub. The permanent Mara and Talek Rivers, and their tributaries, flow through the Reserve and approximately trisect it. There is a pronounced rainfall gradient from the drier east (with c. 800 mm rainfall per year) to the wetter west (with c. 1,200 mm per year).

Wildlife

The Maasai Mara is remarkable for its great concentration of large herbivores and their attendant predators. The density of herbivores is estimated as nearly 240 per km2, with a biomass of just under 30 tonnes per km2 (Gakahu 1992). The extraordinary annual migration of some two million Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and 200,000 Plains Zebra (Equus burchelli) is world famous. Almost 2.5million large herbivores together with the smaller species inhabit the Mara ecosystem. Mara has the largest number of savannah species in the world it has over, 650,000 gazelle, 62,000 buffalo, 64,100 impala, 61,200 topi, 7,500 hartebeest, 7,100 giraffe, 3,000 eland and 4,000 elephant (Mara Research Station Report). There are particularly large numbers of Lion (Panthera leo) and Spotted Hyaena (Crocuta crocuta), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and populations of the threatened black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and African hunting dog (Lycaon pictus) As well as uncounted antelope, hippo, warthog, bush pig and giant forest hog (Lamphey and Reid 2004).

More than 500 bird species are known to occur, including 12 species of Cisticola and 53 birds of prey. Grassland birds are especially well represented. Large numbers of Palaearctic migrants winter in the area, including Caspian Plovers and White Storks. The Oloololo or Siria Escarpment is one of the few Kenyan sites for Rock Cisticola, and other local and unusual birds in the Maasai Mara include Rufous-bellied Heron, Denham's Bustard, Black Coucal, Red-tailed Chat, Pale Wren Warbler, Tabora Cisticola, Icterine Warbler (in the northern winter), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Green-capped Eremomela and Magpie Shrike. There is a single record of Shoe bill, from the Musiara Swamp (Kahindi 1994). Mara's extensive grasslands are a stronghold for the threatened, migratory Corncrake and the near-threatened, restricted-range Jackson's Widowbird. The woodlands around the reserve are probably the centre of abundance for the threatened, restricted-range Grey-crested Helmet-shrike.



Justification of Outstanding Universal Value
(v): The Maasai community living adjacent to the reserve has for many years lived in peace with the wildlife, their land use practice has until recently been strictly pastoralism that conquers with wildlife conservation.

(vii): The annual wildebeest and plains zebra migration from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara National Reserve earned the park the status of one of the Seven Wonders of the World as its' the only migration of its kind in the world.

(x): As the reserve is a wintering spot for palearctic migrants it is therefore of most importance and significance for in-situ conservation. It is also characterized with the largest number of carnivores in Kenya i.e. lions, cheetahs, these two species are listed as threatened and play an important role in ecosystem balance by keeping prey numbers in check.


Statements of authenticity and/or integrity
Maasai Mara is a National Reserve situated in Rift Valley Province, Narok and Transmara Districts

Conservation issues

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is managed by the Narok County Council and Transmara County Council. Because of a rapidly growing human population, accelerating land-use changes there is ever increasing pressure on the reserve. Parts of the area have good agricultural potential due to moderately high rainfall and fertile soils. Large-scale farms with fields of wheat, maize, barley and soya beans sorghum already spot the landscape towards the north, in Lemek and Olkinyei, and there are now farms within 10 km of the reserve boundary, serious human wildlife conflict occur in this area. The clearance of natural vegetation that accompanies agriculture increases the pressure for demarcation and sub-division of land. This has led to the splitting up of group ranches to individual plots that can be fenced, leased or sold. Generally, sub-division is a process that contradicts wildlife conservation. As sub-division proceeds, the movement of wildlife is inevitably impeded, and human-wildlife conflict increases. Some 45 tented camps and lodges now operate in and around the Reserve. There has been little consideration of how many tourist facilities the area can support, and the proliferation of accommodation puts severe pressure on resources, particularly wood-fuel and water. Uncontrolled dry-season grass fires, poaching for meat both for subsistence and on a commercial scale, especially along the western boundary, invasion of the Reserve by livestock, rampant off-track driving, and chronic harassment of animals have all attracted unwelcome attention.

Comparison with other similar properties
Maasai Mara National Reserve is the same ecosystem as the Serengeti National Park in United Republic of Tanzania which is a World Heritage site. The site should be listed as across boarder site as the United Republic of Tanzania has taken the first initiative. The spectacular migrations of large herbivores use the two protected areas for their survival. The Serengeti like the Mara is also very unique, due to the unique and large concentrations of wildlife and the great wildebeest, zebra migration and carnivores that follow suit in the migration. Both these areas are exceptional in that no migration of this magnitude happening anywhere else in the world.

In Bolivia the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is comparable to the Mara Serengeti ecosystem in terms of species Diversity, it is one of the largest (1,523,000 ha) and most intact parks in the Amazon Basin. With an altitudinal range of 200 m to nearly 1,000 m, it is the site of a rich mosaic of habitat types from Cerrado savannah and forest to upland evergreen Amazonian forests. An estimated 4,000 species of flora as well as 600 bird species and viable populations of many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate species found in the area there are small migrations of antelopes across the forest and savannah ecosystem not to the magnitude or extent of the Mara.

The African Great Rift Valley - The Maasai Mara - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List (6)




Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
Cultural (3)

• Fort Jesus, Mombasa (2011)
• Lamu Old Town (2001)
• Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests (2008)

Natural (3)

• Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (2011)
• Lake Turkana National Parks (1997,2001)
• Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest (1997,2013)

Kenya - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

MY TAKE
No Masai mara upthere!

Geza Ulole said:

The African Great Rift Valley - The Maasai Mara
Kenya
Date of Submission: 12/02/2010
Criteria: (v)(vii)(x)
Category: Mixed
Submitted by:
Kenya Wildlife Service
State, Province or Region:
Rift Valley Province (Narok and Transmara Districts)
Coordinates: S01 30 E35 00
Ref.: 5512
Export
Word File
Disclaimer
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate harmonization of Tentative Lists at regional and thematic levels.

The sole responsibility for the content of each Tentative List lies with the State Party concerned. The publication of the Tentative Lists does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the World Heritage Centre or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries.

Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party

Description


The National Reserve is situated in Rift Valley Province, Narok and Transmara Districts. The site adjoins the Serengeti National Park along the Kenya-Tanzania border, and is considered part of the same ecosystem. The National Reserve is Kenya's most-visited protected area, world famous for its high density of herbivores and predators, and the annual migrations of Wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus.

The Maasai Mara lies in the Great Rift Valley (fault line) some 3,500 miles (5,600km) long from Ethiopia's Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and into Mozambique. It is characterized by a wide valley and a towering escarpment in the hazy distance. Habitats in the Maasai Mara are varied, including open rolling grassland, riverine forest, Acacia woodland, swamps, non-deciduous thickets, boulder-strewn escarpments, and Acacia, Croton and Tarchonanthus scrub. The permanent Mara and Talek Rivers, and their tributaries, flow through the Reserve and approximately trisect it. There is a pronounced rainfall gradient from the drier east (with c. 800 mm rainfall per year) to the wetter west (with c. 1,200 mm per year).

Wildlife

The Maasai Mara is remarkable for its great concentration of large herbivores and their attendant predators. The density of herbivores is estimated as nearly 240 per km2, with a biomass of just under 30 tonnes per km2 (Gakahu 1992). The extraordinary annual migration of some two million Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and 200,000 Plains Zebra (Equus burchelli) is world famous. Almost 2.5million large herbivores together with the smaller species inhabit the Mara ecosystem. Mara has the largest number of savannah species in the world it has over, 650,000 gazelle, 62,000 buffalo, 64,100 impala, 61,200 topi, 7,500 hartebeest, 7,100 giraffe, 3,000 eland and 4,000 elephant (Mara Research Station Report). There are particularly large numbers of Lion (Panthera leo) and Spotted Hyaena (Crocuta crocuta), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and populations of the threatened black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and African hunting dog (Lycaon pictus) As well as uncounted antelope, hippo, warthog, bush pig and giant forest hog (Lamphey and Reid 2004).

More than 500 bird species are known to occur, including 12 species of Cisticola and 53 birds of prey. Grassland birds are especially well represented. Large numbers of Palaearctic migrants winter in the area, including Caspian Plovers and White Storks. The Oloololo or Siria Escarpment is one of the few Kenyan sites for Rock Cisticola, and other local and unusual birds in the Maasai Mara include Rufous-bellied Heron, Denham's Bustard, Black Coucal, Red-tailed Chat, Pale Wren Warbler, Tabora Cisticola, Icterine Warbler (in the northern winter), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Green-capped Eremomela and Magpie Shrike. There is a single record of Shoe bill, from the Musiara Swamp (Kahindi 1994). Mara's extensive grasslands are a stronghold for the threatened, migratory Corncrake and the near-threatened, restricted-range Jackson's Widowbird. The woodlands around the reserve are probably the centre of abundance for the threatened, restricted-range Grey-crested Helmet-shrike.



Justification of Outstanding Universal Value
(v): The Maasai community living adjacent to the reserve has for many years lived in peace with the wildlife, their land use practice has until recently been strictly pastoralism that conquers with wildlife conservation.

(vii): The annual wildebeest and plains zebra migration from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara National Reserve earned the park the status of one of the Seven Wonders of the World as its' the only migration of its kind in the world.

(x): As the reserve is a wintering spot for palearctic migrants it is therefore of most importance and significance for in-situ conservation. It is also characterized with the largest number of carnivores in Kenya i.e. lions, cheetahs, these two species are listed as threatened and play an important role in ecosystem balance by keeping prey numbers in check.


Statements of authenticity and/or integrity
Maasai Mara is a National Reserve situated in Rift Valley Province, Narok and Transmara Districts

Conservation issues

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is managed by the Narok County Council and Transmara County Council. Because of a rapidly growing human population, accelerating land-use changes there is ever increasing pressure on the reserve. Parts of the area have good agricultural potential due to moderately high rainfall and fertile soils. Large-scale farms with fields of wheat, maize, barley and soya beans sorghum already spot the landscape towards the north, in Lemek and Olkinyei, and there are now farms within 10 km of the reserve boundary, serious human wildlife conflict occur in this area. The clearance of natural vegetation that accompanies agriculture increases the pressure for demarcation and sub-division of land. This has led to the splitting up of group ranches to individual plots that can be fenced, leased or sold. Generally, sub-division is a process that contradicts wildlife conservation. As sub-division proceeds, the movement of wildlife is inevitably impeded, and human-wildlife conflict increases. Some 45 tented camps and lodges now operate in and around the Reserve. There has been little consideration of how many tourist facilities the area can support, and the proliferation of accommodation puts severe pressure on resources, particularly wood-fuel and water. Uncontrolled dry-season grass fires, poaching for meat both for subsistence and on a commercial scale, especially along the western boundary, invasion of the Reserve by livestock, rampant off-track driving, and chronic harassment of animals have all attracted unwelcome attention.

Comparison with other similar properties
Maasai Mara National Reserve is the same ecosystem as the Serengeti National Park in United Republic of Tanzania which is a World Heritage site. The site should be listed as across boarder site as the United Republic of Tanzania has taken the first initiative. The spectacular migrations of large herbivores use the two protected areas for their survival. The Serengeti like the Mara is also very unique, due to the unique and large concentrations of wildlife and the great wildebeest, zebra migration and carnivores that follow suit in the migration. Both these areas are exceptional in that no migration of this magnitude happening anywhere else in the world.

In Bolivia the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is comparable to the Mara Serengeti ecosystem in terms of species Diversity, it is one of the largest (1,523,000 ha) and most intact parks in the Amazon Basin. With an altitudinal range of 200 m to nearly 1,000 m, it is the site of a rich mosaic of habitat types from Cerrado savannah and forest to upland evergreen Amazonian forests. An estimated 4,000 species of flora as well as 600 bird species and viable populations of many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate species found in the area there are small migrations of antelopes across the forest and savannah ecosystem not to the magnitude or extent of the Mara.

The African Great Rift Valley - The Maasai Mara - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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How does this random article prove Masai Mara has tried being a National Park and failed? Stupid idiot.

NairobiWalker said:

How does this random article prove Masai Mara has tried being a National Park and failed? Stupid idiot.

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See ur GoK trying to serve masai mara! BTW stupid idiot is ur mother!

Government rekindles plan to control traffic to Maasai Mara National Reserve

By Macharia Kamau | Published Mon, February 12th 2018 at 00:11, Updated February 12th 2018 at 00:16 GMT +3
SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Maasai Mara National Reserve.


Maasai Mara National Reserve. [Photo: Courtesy]

Tourists to the Maasai Mara National Reserve will no longer come and go as they please.

This is if the Government succeeds in a new attempt to control the flow of tourists and investments into the world-famous park in a bid to protect its ecosystem, which is being degraded at an alarming rate.

The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife says it plans to put in place a new management plan for the Mara, which could result in the control of the number of visitors allowed into the park at any given time, especially during the peak season of the wildebeest migration. The plan would also see the Government shut down some tourist facilities as well as issue permits to lodge developers in a more controlled manner. The reserve is already said to be congested.

The annual wildebeest migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya is one of the greatest natural spectacles, which led to it being named the Eighth Wonder of the World.

The elevation of the park’s status globally has seen it attract high visitor numbers and in turn a huge number of investments, with some lodges and camps being put up illegally. This has led to degradation of the environment and reduction in the number of animals in the reserve.

The latest move is the second attempt by the Government to implement a management plan for the Mara. The first was slated for implementation between 2010 and 2020.

Differing interests

Implementation, however, flopped owing to differing interests and divergent opinions among stakeholders.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala said in Nairobi last Thursday, when he released the tourism industry performance report for last year, that the national and Narok county governments were working on a new management plan.

He said the plan was expected to preserve and perhaps reverse the damage caused by high human traffic and commercial interests.

The CS said the plan would revolve around staggering visitors to the park such that there were tourists throughout the year as opposed to having the reserve fully occupied during the wildebeest migration season and near-empty for the rest of the year.

“The Maasai Mara is the gem of tourism in Kenya. People come to the Mara mainly for the migration and during the months of July, August and September, it is usually 98 per cent occupied. This is good but we need to manage these numbers by perhaps spreading visitors throughout the year,” he said.

“We are working with the county government to develop a management plan and we will start executing this soon.”

Overall numbers

It is not clear what impact the proposed plan would have on the overall number of visitors to the country, coming at a time when the sector is showing signs of revival.

The sector defied last year’s election jitters to register a 20 per cent growth from 2016, according to the figures released on Thursday. Earnings for up to December stood at Sh120 billion, up from Sh99.69 billion in 2016. The reserve received 146,000 visitors in 2016 and while not the highest visited wildlife attraction, the numbers translated to a higher visitor density at 1.6 people per square kilometre.

This is 10 times higher than in other Kenyan parks and 17 times more than Tanzania’s Serengeti. Visitors and a high concentration of lodges have partly contributed to the reduction in animals numbers, with resident wildebeests declining over time by as much as 75 per cent.

Read more at: Government rekindles plan to control traffic to Maasai Mara National Reserve

Geza Ulole said:

See ur GoK trying to serve masai mara! BTW stupid idiot is ur mother!

Government rekindles plan to control traffic to Maasai Mara National Reserve

By Macharia Kamau | Published Mon, February 12th 2018 at 00:11, Updated February 12th 2018 at 00:16 GMT +3
SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Maasai Mara National Reserve.

[Photo: Courtesy]

Tourists to the Maasai Mara National Reserve will no longer come and go as they please.

This is if the Government succeeds in a new attempt to control the flow of tourists and investments into the world-famous park in a bid to protect its ecosystem, which is being degraded at an alarming rate.

The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife says it plans to put in place a new management plan for the Mara, which could result in the control of the number of visitors allowed into the park at any given time, especially during the peak season of the wildebeest migration. The plan would also see the Government shut down some tourist facilities as well as issue permits to lodge developers in a more controlled manner. The reserve is already said to be congested.

The annual wildebeest migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya is one of the greatest natural spectacles, which led to it being named the Eighth Wonder of the World.

The elevation of the park’s status globally has seen it attract high visitor numbers and in turn a huge number of investments, with some lodges and camps being put up illegally. This has led to degradation of the environment and reduction in the number of animals in the reserve.

The latest move is the second attempt by the Government to implement a management plan for the Mara. The first was slated for implementation between 2010 and 2020.

Differing interests

Implementation, however, flopped owing to differing interests and divergent opinions among stakeholders.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala said in Nairobi last Thursday, when he released the tourism industry performance report for last year, that the national and Narok county governments were working on a new management plan.

He said the plan was expected to preserve and perhaps reverse the damage caused by high human traffic and commercial interests.

The CS said the plan would revolve around staggering visitors to the park such that there were tourists throughout the year as opposed to having the reserve fully occupied during the wildebeest migration season and near-empty for the rest of the year.

“The Maasai Mara is the gem of tourism in Kenya. People come to the Mara mainly for the migration and during the months of July, August and September, it is usually 98 per cent occupied. This is good but we need to manage these numbers by perhaps spreading visitors throughout the year,” he said.

“We are working with the county government to develop a management plan and we will start executing this soon.”

Overall numbers

It is not clear what impact the proposed plan would have on the overall number of visitors to the country, coming at a time when the sector is showing signs of revival.

The sector defied last year’s election jitters to register a 20 per cent growth from 2016, according to the figures released on Thursday. Earnings for up to December stood at Sh120 billion, up from Sh99.69 billion in 2016. The reserve received 146,000 visitors in 2016 and while not the highest visited wildlife attraction, the numbers translated to a higher visitor density at 1.6 people per square kilometre.

This is 10 times higher than in other Kenyan parks and 17 times more than Tanzania’s Serengeti. Visitors and a high concentration of lodges have partly contributed to the reduction in animals numbers, with resident wildebeests declining over time by as much as 75 per cent.

Read more at: Government rekindles plan to control traffic to Maasai Mara National Reserve

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If you have nothing important to post don't quote me please. Stupid idiot. As stupid as Choo-boy and Maharishi.

NairobiWalker said:

If you have nothing important to post don't quote me please. Stupid idiot. As stupid as Choo-boy and Maharishi.

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I highlighted red! Ukunya unakusumbua! I am so smart than u my friend

Geza Ulole said:

I highlighted red! Ukunya unakusumbua! I am so smart than u my friend

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What did you highlight and what did I ask you? Stupid idiot.

NairobiWalker said:

Lol, upgrading a game reserve to a national park doesn't increase revenue. Maasai Mara is a game reserve and it's revenue is higher than all national parks in Kenya.

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who wrote this?

Geza Ulole said:

who wrote this?

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Stop asking me stupid questions.

NairobiWalker said:

Stop asking me stupid questions.

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upo on heat ama?

NairobiWalker said:

Stop asking me stupid questions.

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Umekamatwa ma.ta.com sasa umebaha. Leta hoja zako sio kutukana.

Geza Ulole said:

upo on heat ama?

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Mimi sio senge kama wewe boya.

ntamaholo said:

Umekamatwa ma.ta.com sasa umebaha. Leta hoja zako sio kutukana.

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Go to school. I don't respond t unlearned idiots.

NairobiWalker said:

Go to school. I don't respond t unlearned idiots.

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Sawa naenda

ntamaholo said:

Umekamatwa ma.ta.com sasa umebaha. Leta hoja zako sio kutukana.

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umeonaa enheee hawa kila siku nawapa shule humu ndani! Kahamaki baada ya kumuelewesha aache kufananisha kichuguu na mlima Kilimanjaro. Masai mara haiwezi kuwa national park ni level kubwa sana kwa kichuguu kile.