The Serengeti great migration moves north toward which Kenyan reserve?

The Serengeti great migration moves north toward Kenya’s Masai Mara reserve.

The migration is a year-round loop rather than a one-way march. It begins in the southern Serengeti and adjoining Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where rainfall produces nutritious short grass and wildebeest give birth. As the dry season develops, the herds move northwest through Tanzania, then cross the Grumeti and Mara rivers before reaching the Masai Mara in southwestern Kenya, commonly in July or August.

The moving animals include roughly 1.7 million wildebeest, about 260,000 zebras and hundreds of thousands of gazelles. Their route follows changing pasture and water, so its exact timing shifts with rainfall. The herds generally remain in Kenya through the dry season, then turn south when the short rains begin, reaching the southeastern Serengeti in time for the next calving season.

Masai Mara is the reserve’s common English name; Maasai Mara National Reserve is also widely used. Amboseli, Samburu and Tsavo East are Kenyan protected areas, but they are not the northern destination of this famous Serengeti migration.