Editing Serengeti National Park (section)

== History ==
In 1930, an area of {{Cvt|2286|km2}} was designated as a game reserve in southern and eastern Serengeti.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Serengeti National Park travel information – Tanzania |url=https://www.serengeti.com/information-serengeti-national-park.php|access-date=3 August 2021|website=serengeti.com|language=en}}</ref> In the 1930s, the government of [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]] established a system of national parks compliant with the [[Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In 1930, major [[Richard Hingston|Richard Hingdston]], visiting Tanganyika on a mission from the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (SPFE), proposed that the Serengeti Game Reserve be designated as a national park to ensure its protection from the pressures of population growth and economic development. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Shetler |title=Imagining Serengeti: A History of L |date=2007 |publisher=Ohio University Press |others=Jean Allman, Allen F. Isaacman |isbn=978-0-8214-1750-8 |edition=1st |series=New African Histories Ser |location=Athens, OH |pages=357}}</ref>

The area became a national park in 1940. It was granted strict protection in 1948 when the Serengeti National Park Board of Trustees was formed to administer the national park. The government restricted the movements of the resident Maasai people, and the park boundaries were finalized in 1951.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Neumann, R.P. |year=1995 |title=Ways of seeing Africa: colonial recasting of African society and landscape in Serengeti National Park |journal=Ecumene |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=149–169 |doi=10.1177/147447409500200203 |s2cid=145421779 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240728470}}</ref> In 1959, an area of {{cvt|8300|km2}} was split off in the eastern part of the national park and re-established as [[Ngorongoro Conservation Area]] intended to accommodate the traditional land use interests of the Maasai people in a multiple land use area.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Wanitzek, U. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Sippel, H. |year=1998 |title=Land rights in conservation areas in Tanzania |journal=GeoJournal |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=113–128 |doi=10.1023/A:1006953325298 |s2cid=150734077}}</ref> 

In 1966 Serengeti Research Institute at Seronera was established to monitor and research the Great Migration. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Ofcansky |first=Thomas P. |title=Historical dictionary of Tanzania |last2=Yeager |first2=Rodger |date=1997 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-3244-2 |edition=2nd |series=African historical dictionaries |location=Lanham, Md. |pages=200}}</ref> 

In 1981, the Serengeti National Park covered {{cvt|12950|km2}}, which was less than half of the [[Serengeti]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Makacha, S. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Msingwa, M.J. |author3=Frame, G.W. |year=1982 |title=Threats to the Serengeti herds |journal=Oryx |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=437–444 |doi=10.1017/S0030605300018111 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

The Serengeti gained fame after [[Bernhard Grzimek]] and his son [[Michael Grzimek|Michael]] produced a book and documentary titled ''[[Serengeti Shall Not Die]]'' in 1959.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Boes, T. |year=2013 |title=Political animals: ''Serengeti Shall Not Die'' and the cultural heritage of mankind|journal=German Studies Review |volume=36|issue=1|pages=41–59|doi=10.1353/gsr.2013.a501305 |jstor=43555291 |s2cid=142103854}}</ref>