Maswa Game Reserve survey
The Maswa Game Reserve survey has started!
In June 2008, the team started the survey of the Maswa Game Reserve, a beautiful area lying along the western boundary of the Serengeti and abutting the south-western corner of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The survey is expected to come to an end towards the first week of August.
Although the reserve borders the Serengeti plains, the two areas differ substantially: the reserve indeed consists mainly of river valley thickets and acacia parkland, with the only areas of open grassland being in the North and in the extreme South-East, adjacent to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Maswa Game Reserve was created in 1962, to act as a buffer zone for the Serengeti National Park and to allow tourist hunting of wildlife within the Serengeti ecosystem.