Saving the Serengeti: Humans or Wildlife – Who Comes First? 

  The Serengeti, home to the largest annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and zebras making it your never-miss animal show on Discovery Channel, is in peril. For more than a decade now, human activity has interfered with the ‘cradle of mankind.’ This ‘Eden’ so to speak, is home to Olduvai Gorge where the oldest human fossil nicknamed ‘Lucy’ was found. The site remains an invaluable asset in furthering understanding of early human evolution and is believed to have been traversed by our upright walking ancestors, the Homo Erectus. What our two million years old ancestors must have seen every year starting early May, is the migration of millions of wildebeest and with them a host of predators—a spectacle known affectionately as ‘The greatest Show On Earth’ that we awe at to date. It is for this reason that we owe it to our children and future generations to keep the sanctuary safe. However, what does ‘safe’ mean? To start with, the Maasai, who named these plains Serengeti—as the name translates to “never ending plains” in the Maasai language—argue that it is their source of livelihood and has been for generations and generations, maybe even dating back to mama ‘Lucy.’ Now they are denied to hunt and graze in the plains in the name