The greatest wildlife spectacles on earth are the migrations of large mammals and birds, yet everywhere they are shrinking and vanishing. The several million-strong migrations of bison in North America and springbok in southern African collapsed in the last 1800s. In East Africa, the huge migrating herds of zebra and wildebeest on the Athi Plains collapsed over the last half century. Remarkably, the Serengeti migrations, now the Eighth Wonder of the Natural World, survives but is fast shrinking in the face of human settlements in Loliondo to the east and north of Maasai Mara.

Amboseli stood alone for decades as the last of the free-ranging intermingled migrations of wildlife and Maasai livestock which once characterized the East African savannas. No longer. Amboseli is losing connectivity to previously thriving wildebeest and zebra populations to the north in Kaputei, and the swamps to the east stretching to Tsavo West National Park. Yet despite a surging human population, settlement and land subdivision, the Amboseli wildlife migrations have persisted. In the attached bulletin, The Amboseli migrations: Causes, changes and the conservation of a viable ecosystem, we document the changes in wildlife and livestock and the steps underway to secure the lands needed to secure the migrations.