Ngorongoro Crater

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November 6th, 2009 by Travel

The Ngorongoro Crater is a large area that is now a conservation area, and is 8,288km square in size and layout, and is situated in Tanzania. In 1959 the area was declared a conservation area and was separated from the Serengeti to create its own unique zone. The land is allowed for human use, but only for habitation and subsistence level farming to keep the wildlife safe, it also hosts the migration where millions of animals cross each year twice.

Ngorongoro Crater

The crater itself is actually a massive volcanic crater that remains unbroken from the caldera of a long extinct super volcano. Within the crater about twenty five thousand creatures make their living with zebra, gazelle, wildebeest, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo to name a few, along with many common predatory mammals such as lions. There have also been findings of ancient human and human-like remains which are vital to our current understanding of our own origins upon this planet and arguably one of the most important sites ever found in regards to human evolution theory and discovery.

Ngorongoro Crater