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 ...

Africa’s annual Great Migration is hailed as one of the seven wonders of the world. During this extraordinary phenomenon, over a million wildebeests traverse the Masai Mara National Reserve (MMNR) to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wildebeest migrations have become a rarer sight in Africa as humans continue to interrupt their historic migratory routes with roads, fences, cities, livestock and farmland. This has led to genetic ...

T. Michael Anderson received funding from the National Geographic Society (grants WW-025R-17 and NGS-52921R-18) and the US National Science Foundation (grant BCS-1461728). Tanzania’s Serengeti ...

Joseph Ogutu is affiliated with the Greater Serengeti-Mara Conservation Society and the One Mara Research Hub. Wildebeest – large African antelopes with distinctively curved horns – are famous for ...

Whether by way of Attenborough, Disney or National Geographic, the iconic scene is familiar to many. The ground trembles and clouds of dust swirl as enormous hordes of large animals thunder across the ...