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/ 10 October 2007
About 15 000 wildebeest have drowned in the Mara River during their annual migration between Tanzania and Kenya, shocking tourists and baffling conservationists, officials said on Wednesday. The mass death of the animals was the first of its kind in recent memory, officials said.
More than a million snorting wildebeest may not need the plug, but a media endorsement of their annual migration is raising fears of a tourist stampede to the Maasai Mara game reserve. Conservationists and some camp owners fear it may aggravate overcrowding and overzealous development.
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/ 6 December 2006
World-renowned for its abundant exotic wildlife, rolling savannah and luxury safari camps, Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve is under threat from its fame. The site of the annual "great migration", the Maasai Mara and neighbouring Tanzania’s Serengeti plains, were recently crowned by United States media the seventh "new wonder of the world", but there are fears the honour may be a mixed blessing.