The Serengeti National Park is over 5700 sq mi in northern Tanzania in the eastern Mara Region with a virgin savannah.  Serengeti is well known for the largest annual animal migration with over 1.5 million blue wildebeest, zebra along with smaller herds of Thomson’s gazelle and elands.  Serengeti is also home to the largest population of lions in Africa.  The permanent residents are the Masai people, who also use the park as farmland for their herds. However, the government has restricted their movements and the park boundaries were finalized split off in the eastern part of the national park and re-established as Ngorongoro Conservation Area intended to accommodate the traditional land use interests of the Maasai people in a multiple land use area.