Serengeti National Park is a large protected area of grassland savanna and woodland in northern Tanzania, adjoining the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya. It protects one of the world's largest remaining intact ecosystems and is best known for the annual migration of more than a million wildebeest, along with zebras and gazelles, which follow the rains in search of fresh grass while being hunted by lions, cheetahs and crocodiles. The area gained formal protection in stages during the twentieth century, and the Maasai people lived and grazed their herds there before being moved out of parts of it. Conservation was influenced by the work of Bernhard and Michael Grzimek, whose film and book Serengeti Shall Not Die brought international attention. The park became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 and is a major tourist destination.
Before and after
- 26 November 1939Birth of Tina Turner
- from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940Winter War
- from 7 December 1939 to 17 July 1941Palmiry massacre
- 1940Discovery of neptunium
- 1940Establishment of Serengeti National Park
- 1940Katyn massacre
- c. 1940sRise of abstract expressionism
- from c. 1940s to 1960sGreen Revolution
- c. 1940sNuclear warfare
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The era
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