The World Travel Awards has once more crowned Serengeti of Tanzania to be Africa’s leading National Park in 2024.
This is the sixth time in a row that Serengeti wins the coveted continental award at the WTA.
The Africa Gala Ceremony for the 31st World Travel Awards (WTA) winners was held at the Diamonds Leisure Beach and Golf Resort, in Kenya’s pristine Diani Beach, on the night of Friday, October 18, 2024.
Serengeti has been bagging almost all African accolades because only two weeks earlier, the destination emerged the winner of Safari Bookings’ top wildlife parks on the continent.
Famous for the annual migration of nearly 2 million wildebeests and zebras, Serengeti measuring 14,763 square kilometers of wilderness, is Tanzania’s third largest National Park after Nyerere and Ruaha.
Recently also Serengeti became bigger after the National Park size was increased stretching its western boundaries to reach the shores of Lake Victoria at Speke Bay, which also gives the conservancy a special delta similar to Botswana’s Okavango.
Tanzania has dished out 45.9 Billion/- equivalent to USD18.5 Million to compensate the residents who have now moved out to pave way for conservation efforts.
Conservators say moving about 8,000 people out of the Speke Game Controlled Area in Bunda district of Musoma, was essential to conserve the Serengeti’s ecosystem as it faces worsening drought.
The Serengeti national park will now extend to include all the dry land between the lake shore and its current boundary which flanks the highway North from Mwanza, between where it crosses the Mbalangeti River at its Southern end and the Grumeti River some 12 kilometers north.
Serengeti, which initially measured 14,763 square kilometers, has now become bigger with additional 54.67 square kilometers, boosting its size to 14,818 square kilometers but Serengeti will remain the third largest National Park in Tanzania after Nyerere and Ruaha.
Serengeti is also the first National Park to be established in Tanzania having been gazetted in 1959 alongside its next door neighbor, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
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