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Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains containing the world renowned largest un-flooded and unbroken caldera in the world packed with savanna woodlands and forests, and the highest density of wildlife in Africa. As the world’s largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera, the crater was established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing. The area has been preserved with international status of global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains.

The Ngorongoro volcano was active from about 2.45 to 2 million years ago and is home to extensive archaeological research evidenctly yielding traces of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years. described as an ‘eighth wonder of the world’, the Crater has achieved world renown, attracting an ever-increasing number of visitors, with spectacular views and home to the endangered Black Rhino in strictly protective environment with encounters of black-maned lions and flamingos on the soda Lake Magadi.

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