The collapse of wildlife migrations in Kenya and Tanzania
Wildlife migrations in Kenya and Tanzania are collapsing because of human interference. Watch the animation video…Read more
Author Archives: AfricanBioServices
The negative impact of fences on large mammals
The Great Migration is called Nature’s greatest show, where 1.3 million wildebeest, 400,000 Thomson’s gazelle, 200,000 zebra and 12,000 eland are travelling together…Read more
Teatime in the Serengeti
Tanzania is well known for its tea. Chai tea is drunk every day and Tanzanians are proud of the various local tea types produced in the country. Entering Tanzania with a couple of suitcases full of generic Lipton teabags (other brands available)…Read more
New booklet from AfricanBioservices
AfricanBioServices booklet available for download
AfricanBioSevices in the Project Repository Journal
AfricanBioServices is featured in the Project Repository Journal on the front page and as a special supplement inside.
Project Repository Journal – Volume 4 – January 2020
The Giving Trees of the African Savannahs
Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s novel, “The Giving Tree”, details the relationship between a boy and a tree. In the course of the boy’s life the tree provides the boy with everything: Read more
Where are the Serengeti’s Wild Dogs?
In 1991, the wild dogs started to disappear from Serengeti national park, due to the steadily increasing population of lions and hyenas. Read more
Play as Practice: Games for a better future in the Serengeti Ecosytem
AfricanBioServices has created its own board game that informs local communities about conservation in East Africa while they are having fun. Read more
Local communities are more than just data points
At the end of a field trip at the border of Maasai Mara National Park, Kenya, interviewing local communities, I had a bright idea that our community facilitator owned land and could fill in one of our interview questionnaires. Read more
The Fourth and Final Meeting of the AfricanBioServices Consortium
Scientists and scholars from Tanzania, the Netherlands, Kenya, Norway, South Africa, USA, Germany, Denmark, and Scotland presented years of research on the Greater-Serengeti Mara Ecosystem. Read more