Northern zone regional physical plan, 1993

A Multiple Land Use Area is a portion of the country which by nature has permitted pastoralists with their livestock to live side by side with an abundance of wildlife without serious detriment to either element or degradation of the environment of' the landscape. 1.2. A striking example is to be found in the Serengeti Ecosystem, which includes the Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, the Serengeti Plains and the Ngorongoro highland massif in Tanzania. Archaeological research has revealed that pastoralists first entered this area more than two thousand years ago, but *When Europeans came into the area towards the end of last century, they found it well stocked with pastoralists and an abundance of wildlife to be found nowhere else in the world. But many scientists have pointed out that but for the pastoralists the wildlife would have suffered by the intrusion of agriculturists and the over exploitation of the wildlife by the neighboring people. 1.3. In the last one hundred years both the pastoralists and the wildlife has suffered ups and downs. The pastoralists suffered a staggering loss with the rinderpest of 1890, and a continuing loss of grazing land to both European settlers and to increasing pressure of the adjacent rapidly expanding African gropastoralists. 1.4. It is these very same circumstances that has brought about a dramatic reduction in wildlife numbers, to which must be added the introduction of modern firearms used by an ever-expanding number -of poachers.