AfricanBioServices

AfricanBioServices is an EU-funded research project investigating Ecosystem Services in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem in eastern Africa. The main aim of the research project is to understand how the ongoing climate change, human population growth and landuse change affect biodiversity and human well-being, and use this information to derive novel solutions for a future sustainable development. Read more about AfricanBioServices

Drivers & Recommendations

Results - CORDIS: EU research and innovation framework programmes

Climate Change

Climate change represents a major threat to global biodiversity, and in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem it is apparent as increased variability and irregularity of rainfall.

Human Population Growth

The African continent harbours the fastest growing human population in the world, and the pressure on natural resources in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem is constantly increasing.

Landuse Change

Agricultural and industrial development is modifying the way different areas are utilized, and in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem the natural landscape is changing quickly.

The Serengeti-Mara squeeze – one of the world’s most iconic ecosystems under pressure

By AfricanBioServices29 March, 2019Publications

Increased human activity around one of Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is “squeezing the wildlife in its core” Read more

The EU Commission shared news from the AfricanBioServices project

By AfricanBioServices20 March, 2019General

The EU Commission, through The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) shared news from the AfricanBioServices project. Read more

Possible ways to prevent conservation crimes

By AfricanBioServices6 February, 2019Generalcrime, hyena, poaching, snare

Conservation crimes are posing serious threats to wildlife species and biodiversity of the Rungwa-Kizigo-Muhesi-Game-Reserves. Read more

Solving the mystery of Serengeti’s vanishing wild dogs

By AfricanBioServices1 February, 2019General

Twenty-five years ago, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) disappeared from Serengeti National Park. A firestorm of debate followed when the researcher… Read more

Fires have a negative effect on rhinos

By AfricanBioServices7 December, 2018Generalfire, rhino

In African savannas, natural resource managers frequently use fire as a tool to manage wildlife habitats; fire can help regenerate grass for grazers, reduce encroachment of bushes, and control ticks and diseases. Read more

Termites and litter type regulate root decomposition

By AfricanBioServices29 October, 2018Publicationsroot decomposition, termites

A new publication from Stuart W. Smith has been accepted. Co-authors are James D. M. Speed, John Bukombe, Shombe N. Hassan, Richard D. Lyamuya… Read more

NTNU Master students – Doing our field work in Serengeti

By AfricanBioServices1 October, 2018Blog

We, Marit, Vilde and Anders, all Norwegian master students in Ecology and Natural Resources Management, headed out to Serengeti one after the other from January to the end of December 2017. Read more

Investigating poaching trends in the Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem, Kenya and Tanzania

By AfricanBioServices20 September, 2018MSc thesis

A new MSc thesis has evaluated spatiotemporal patterns in poaching across the boundary of the Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem (MSE). Read more

Burning aliens’ in the park

By AfricanBioServices20 August, 2018Generalfire management

Spotting a polar bear preying on a wildebeest or a kangaroo hopping away from a lion may seem out of place on a safari in Africa. Nevertheless, in the plant kingdom the establishment and naturalization… Read more

Urgent response needed to protect Kenya’s wildlife

By AfricanBioServices6 August, 2018General

Dr. Joseph O. Ogutu from University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, writes about the dramatic decline in wildlife in Kenya and that there is no more time to waste in protecting wildlife in the region… Read more

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