Greater Mara Ecosystem

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The Greater Mara Ecosystem is a vast, wildlife-rich savanna landscape in southwestern Kenya that encompasses the Maasai Mara National Reserve and surrounding conservancies, supporting one of the world’s most spectacular large-mammal migrations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ecosystem
savanna ecosystem
borderedBy Serengeti National Park
contains Maasai Mara National Reserve
community conservancies
group ranches
pastoral lands
private conservancies
containsProtectedArea Maasai Mara National Reserve
country Kenya
hasBiome tropical savanna
hasConservationApproach community-based conservation
conservancy model
hasEcologicalProcess grazing pressure dynamics
predator–prey dynamics
seasonal migration
hasGlobalSignificance biodiversity conservation
large-herbivore migration conservation
hasHabitatType grassland
riverine forest
woodland
inhabitedBy Maasai
surface form: Maasai people
knownFor large-mammal migration
wildebeest migration
locatedIn southwestern Kenya
locatedOnContinent Africa
partOf Serengeti National Park
surface form: Serengeti–Mara ecosystem
supportsHumanActivity pastoralism
photographic safaris
wildlife tourism
supportsSpecies African buffalo
Loxodonta
surface form: African elephant

Thomson's gazelle
black rhinoceros
cheetah
crocodile
giraffe
hippopotamus
leopard
lion
secretarybird
spotted hyena
vultures
wildebeest
zebra
threatenedBy climate change
habitat fragmentation
land-use change
overgrazing
poaching
traversedByRiver Mara River

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Maasai Mara National Reserve partOf Greater Mara Ecosystem
Thomson's gazelle occursInProtectedArea Greater Mara Ecosystem
this entity surface form: Masai Mara ecosystem
Kenya–Tanzania border near Greater Mara Ecosystem
this entity surface form: Maasai Mara ecosystem