The savannah of the Serengeti has been the fount of life for man and beast since ancient times, and is quite possibly the ancestral “Garden of Eden” that is so firmly anchored in our mythology and our human subconscious.
The destruction of the Serengeti would not only mean the end of a wildlife paradise on Earth, but also the death of an important part of our human identity. The Olduvai Gorge in the southern Serengeti is known throughout the world as the “Cradle of Mankind”. Due to the temporary nature of food supplies in prehistoric times, the primates that populated the region had to learn to walk in order to find food. Those primates were our ancestors.

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Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris agrees with Richard Leakey that the road through the Serengeti will be a disaster for the "Migration". We have been leading safaris to the Serengeti since 1980. We pleadplead with the Tanzanian government to choose an alternate route that does not go through the Serengeti eco-system!