Masai Mara Game reserve
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- Created on: 24-01-15 16:15
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- Masai Mara Game reserve
- location
- central east Africa
- lies on the equator
- located in kenya near the Tanzania boarder
- 1,500km2
- ecosystem
- diverse biodiversity
- four types od topography
- all five members of the big five
- lion
- leopard
- elephant
- buffalo
- rhinoceros
- 470 species of bird
- many migrants
- eg ostriches
- diverse biodiversity
- threats of biodiversity
- tourism
- industry worth US$ 500 million
- poorly protected parks
- threaten the sustainability of this industry
- safari tours to see the big five
- repeated use of hiking trials and mechanised transportation cause soil erosion
- destroying or changing habitats
- repeated use of hiking trials and mechanised transportation cause soil erosion
- is a mass due tourism tropical area
- due to beautiful coastal beaches, wildlife and unique scenery
- 785,000 tourists per year
- illegal hunting
- giraffes, zebras and antelopes
- around july animals migrate north to seek better pastures
- eg wildebeests and zebras
- private fenced ranches limit wildlife movement
- tourism
- success of Management
- tourism increases the countries economy
- government can afford to invest in management
- WWF monitored affect on species populations
- 85% decrease in giraffes
- 80% decrease in warthogs
- 76% decrease in hartebeasts
- life expectancy increased by 20 years between 2006-14
- tourists increase green house gases
- should do what they have done on Galapagos and tax tourists
- Tsaru national park
- higher cost
- smaller groups
- tourists stayed In tents
- reduce impact on environment
- eco-tourism
- higher cost
- closed a reserve called amboseli for a small period in the 1980s to allow the lions to breed successfully
- Ban maasai mara vehicles from going off road to contain soil erosion
- waste stored in animal proof bins so that animals weren't poisoned from eating it
- 25m exclusion zones to keep tourist buses away from animals
- do not disturb sleeping/ feeding/ mating animals
- ex poachers employed as tour bus drivers
- tourism increases the countries economy
- location
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