Tarangire National Park lies a little distance to the South-East of Lake Manyara and covers an area of approximately 2,850 square kilometres. The name of the park originates from the river which crosses it at its middle and is the only source of water for...
...wild animals during the dry seasons. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons.
The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the greatest number of breeding species in a single habitat anywhere in the world. The park is spectacular in the dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of Tarangire River: huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, eland and oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rains when they migrate again to good grazing areas. But this annual migration is threatened by increasing agriculture in the areas surrounding the Park. For wilderness areas like Tarangire to survive, conservation measures must go hand in hand with appropriate rural development.
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