Tanzania Wildlife research Institute
The place
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) in the Arusha region, Arusha/Karatu area (Great Rift Valley, Tanzania), at 1,320 m elevation, Ngorongoro-Serengeti plateau. New Tanzania cluster appearing in batch 347. TAWIRI wildlife research institute (founded 1979 under Julius Nyerere, 1st president of Tanzania 1961-1985, Ujamaa socialism), area with acacia-baobab wooded savanna of the Rift Valley and Ngorongoro (a collapsed volcanic crater of 260 km², 20 km across, 2,000-3,000 mammal individuals, UNESCO listed since 1979, the densest concentration of predators in the world + the Serengeti Great Migration of 1.5 million wildebeest + 300,000 zebras covering 800 km on an annual cycle between Kenya and Tanzania), heritage of the Maasai (a pastoral Nilotic people, 1 million speakers of the Maa language, semi-nomadic cattle-centric culture, warriors called moran and the olerukoto ceremony marking the passage to adulthood).
The setting
Arusha Arusha/Karatu Rift Valley Tanzania 1320 m Ngorongoro-Serengeti plateau, new cluster batch 347, TAWIRI 1979 Nyerere 1961-85 Ujamaa, acacia-baobab Rift savanna, Ngorongoro crater 260 km² 20 km across 2,000-3,000 mammals UNESCO 1979 densest predator concentration in the world + Serengeti Great Migration 1.5 million wildebeest + 300,000 zebras 800 km annual cycle KE-TZ, Maasai Nilotic 1 million Maa semi-nomadic cattle-centric moran olerukoto adulthood.
