Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New fences across ancient routes have blocked wildebeest herds from their annual migration to reach fresh grazing land. Wildebeest ...

East Africa’s “Great Migration” is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti Mara landscape ...

Wildebeest migration has shrunk by 90% in Kenya’s Maasai Mara due to fences being built, reveals new research. The annual spectacle – a magnet for eco tourists – has seen a “dramatic” decline over the ...

Massive migrations of wildebeests have fallen in recent years, casualties of human-built fences, roads and cities. Now, analysis of the magnificent animals’ genomes reveals that those barriers are ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps published in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration reveal the dramatic impact of ...

Whether by way of Attenborough, Disney or National Geographic, the iconic scene is familiar to many. The ground trembles and clouds of dust swirl as enormous hordes of large animals thunder across the ...

Tanzania’s Serengeti ecosystem is like a time machine. As one of the world’s last remaining fully intact grazing ecosystems it provides a glimpse of what others in Australia, Eurasia and the Americas ...

Each spring, millions of wildebeest begin a 500-mile journey driven by rain, grass, and survival. Wildebeests gather to graze and calve on the short-grass plains. Millions of wildebeest participate in ...