Empakai Crater - Ngorongoro conservation Area
Un piccolo Ngorongoro situato nella zona degli altimpiani dello Ngorongoro, in Tanzania
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The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera. The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains. Extensive archaeological research has also yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years. (
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Empakaai Crater
Trekking in Empakaai Crater, in the Ngorongoro Crater Highlands of northern Tanzania
EMPAKAI CRATER
Ngorongoro Crater, Empakai Crater
Empakai crater of northern Ngorongoro conservation area
Looking at Empakaai crater from the eastern rim. More at
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Empakaai Crater Short Documentary - by CjFilms
A short detailed film documentary of the Empakaai Crater in the highlands of the Ngorongoro Crater in Arusha. #TourismDocumentary by CjFilms
Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania
Based on fossil evidence found at the Olduvai Gorge, it is known that various hominid species have occupied the area for 3 million years. Hunter-gatherers were replaced by pastorialists a few thousand years ago. The Mbulu came to the area about 2,000 years ago, and were joined by the Datooga around the year 1700. Both groups were driven from the area by the Maasai in the 1800s. Massive fig trees in the northwest of the Lerai Forest are sacred to the Maasai and Datooga people. Some of them may have been planted on the grave of a Datago leader who died in battle with the Maasai around 1840.
No Europeans are known to have set foot in the crater until 1892, when it was visited by Dr. Oscar Baumann. Two German brothers farmed in the crater until the outbreak of World War I, after leasing the land from the administration of German East Africa. Dr. Baumann shot three rhinos while camped in the crater, and the German brothers regularly organized shooting parties to entertain their German friends. They also attempted to drive the wildebeest herds out of the crater.
The Ngorongoro area originally was part of the Serengeti National Park when it was created by the British in 1951. Maasai continued to live in the newly created park until 1959, when repeated conflicts with park authorities over land use led the British to evict them to the newly declared Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority is the governing body regulating use and access to the NCA. The area became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Land in the conservation area is multi-use: it is unique in Tanzania as the only conservation area providing protection status for wildlife whilst allowing human habitation. Land use is controlled to prevent negative effects on the wildlife population. For example, cultivation is prohibited at all but subsistence levels.
The area is part of the Serengeti ecosystem, and to the north-west, it adjoins the Serengeti National Park and is contiguous with the southern Serengeti plains, these plains also extend to the north into unprotected Loliondo division and are kept open to wildlife through trans-human pastoralism practiced by Maasai. The south and west of the area are volcanic highlands, including the famous Ngorongoro Crater and the lesser known Empakai. The southern and eastern boundaries are approximately defined by the rim of the Great Rift Valley wall, which also prevents animal migration in these directions.
The annual ungulate migration passes through the NCA, with wildebeest and zebra moving south into the area in December and moving north in June. This movement changes seasonally with the rains, but the migration will traverse almost the entire plains in search of food. The NCA has a healthy resident population of most species of wildlife, in particular the Ndutu Lake area to the west has strong cheetah and lion populations.
NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania.
Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera within the area, is recognized by one private organization as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.
The conservation area is administered by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, an arm of the Tanzanian government, and its boundaries follow the boundary of the Ngorongoro Division of the Arusha Region.
It has been reported in 2009 that the government authority has proposed a reduction of the population of the conservation area from 65,000 to 25,000.
There are plans being considered for 14 more luxury tourist hotels, so people can access the unparalleled beauty of one of the world's most unchanged wildlife sanctuaries, however the people who own the land has had few benefits of tourism, also no management job in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area has gone to the local Maasai pastoralists, who were helped by a 2013 international Avaaz campaign from being evicted from pastries bordering Serengeti National Park because a private luxury safari company's interests.
Olmoti crater of Ngorongoro conservation area
Looking at Olmoti crater from the eastern rim, at the end of the hiking route from Nainokanoka village - with sounds of Masai cattle bells in the background. More at
Club Fred exploring the Empakaai Crater Lake on the Ngorogoro Highlands
Club Fred is taking a day´s excursion aside from the main beaten track of tourists visiting the Ngorogoro Crater lake. A park range is obligatory in the Serengeti National Park as guide to move outside a car adn explore the thickets. This road movie takes you from Arusha passing the settlements of Mto wa Mbu and Karatu to Simba Camp a public campground on the rim above Ngorogoro Crater. Mount Meru can be seen in the sunrise contrasting on the horiziont when we leave in the morning, pass Bernhard Grizmek overlook und drive into the Massai homeland on the Ngorongoro Highland where traditional settlements like Irkeepui and Nainokanoka still live on farming and cattle raising. The trip takesus over a vast and lush prairie up into hills where the view into the Empakaai Crater is sudden and overwhelming. Our Massai guide takes us down a slippery path into pristine jungle with towering old impressive fig trees. We had a lonesome picknick at the shoreside of the lake, before we ascend back to the rim and drive home to Simba campground shortcutting through the Ngorogoro Crater with its aboundand wildelife.
Ngorongoro crater as seen from the road to Empakaai
View of Ngorongoro crater from a point on the eastern crater rim. More at
Olmoti crater waterfalls of Ngorongoro conservation area
Olmoti crater waterfalls as seen from above and on the crater floor. More at
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Ngorongoro Crater Magadi lake and Lerai forest
This is the second and last part of our visit to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. From lake Magadi to Lerai forest. After the overwhelming amount of animal species it was time to leave the crater.
2014-03-21 Tanzania - Day 11 Munge, Empakai Craters
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