The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected region in northern Tanzania, centered on the vast Ngorongoro Crater, a collapsed volcanic caldera that holds a rich concentration of wildlife. It was established in 1959, when the Serengeti National Park was separated from it and the Maasai pastoralists were allowed to remain in the conservation area, rather than in the park. It is thus a multiple-use area, designed for the combined needs of wildlife, livestock and people. It also includes Olduvai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey found important early human fossils, and nearby Laetoli, with ancient footprints. UNESCO inscribed it as a World Heritage site in 1979. Disputes over the rights and resettlement of the Maasai continue.
Before and after
- 8 October 1958Birth of Ursula von der Leyen
- 9 October 1958Death of Pius XII
- 23 December 1958Construction of Tokyo Tower
- 1959Invention of Floyd–Warshall algorithm
- 1959Construction of Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- 1959HIV/AIDS
- 1959Creation of ALGOL
- from 1959 to 1961Great Chinese Famine
- 1959Construction of Boryspil International Airport
More in Art, literature & culture
- 17 August 1945Publication of Animal Farm
- 1949Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- c. 1950sRise of pop art
- 1955Publication of Guinness World Records
- from 31 March 1997 to 11 November 2022Premiere of Teletubbies
- 2004Construction of Cam Ranh International Airport
The era
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