"The migration - which has occurred without interruption for thousands of years - is one of the most extraordinary movements of animals on the planet. Around 1.5 million of these huge creatures trudge across Kenya and Tanzania in a vast 3,000km arc.
In recent years droughts have killed up to half a million migrating wildebeest in east Africa. If these droughts had continued by only a few more weeks, they would have killed off the region's entire wildebeest population. Now scientists fear that another major episode of water loss could trigger so many deaths as to leave no migrating wildebeest in east Africa. 'This is how serious the situation is,' said the WWF's eastern Africa regional office project manager, Doris Ombara." LINK
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