Additional Resources

To help interested travelers learn more about the wildebeest migration and East Africa in general, here we have collected a few of the resources we relied upon when creating this look at the wildebeest migration.

Kenya.com's frequently updated blog about East Africa features safari related news items, discussion of East African wildlife, geography, culture and history, notification of upcoming events, and whatever else catches the editor's attention.

ARKive is a rich multimedia encyclopedia of the world's animal species, including, of course the wildebeest.

The AWF is the leading African wildlife conservation group. As part of its conservation efforts, the group has put together an extensive database of the wildlife they seek to preserve.

The WWF is one of the world's largest conservation organizations, with more 1300 conservation projects underway. Like the AWF, the WWF maintains an extensive database of the species - and the ecosystems - it protects, all of which is freely available online.

The KWS conserves and manages Kenya's wildlife within and without the nation's conservation areas. Its website features details about the wildlife the KWS protects, as well as information about the extensive network of game parks and reserves it manages.

The scope of this book encompasses all of Africa, but its chapter on the wildebeest migration - Serengeti Must Be Saved - is illuminating. The chapter places the migration within the wider context of the region, and explains how the migration we know today is the result of countless interactions among people, wildlife, geography and history.

Another book not specifically focused on the wildebeest migration, Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa is perhaps the quintessential safari travelogue.