Wildbeest migration

Between Kenya and Tanzania, you have Africa’s most diverse and abundant wildlife. Animals within protected areas of game reserves and national parks have largely remained on a free ranging basis in their natural habitat. It is principally for this reason, that East Africa is the worlds’ most outstanding safari destination. Fittingly, it is here that one of most spectacular phenomenon of the natural world takes place- the Great Annual Wildebeest Migration. This cross border event, is one of the last great migrations, and is increasingly celebrated as a unique world heritage. In November 2006, a jury of experts polled by ABC Television - a leading American broadcaster, affirmed the annual migration as one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World”.
 
The migration event, the Maasai Mara Game Reserve (Kenya) and the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania) – selected to share in the honours. where the phenomena occurs, were collectively The Great Wildebeest Migration is a yearly mass movement of millions of ungulates (hoofed animals) allured first to the north, and then back to the south by the promise of rains. Tirelessly following almost the same pattern each year, and at around the same time of the calendar, the animals take an amazing yearlong 2,900 km clockwise trek. The great migration involves an estimated 1.3 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, and a multitude of gazelles, among a few other hoofed species. Catch the migration during the months of June to September and watch the great spectacle live with The Safari Claws Company Kenya.