The migration that ignores borders

A year in the life of 1.5 million wildebeest. Watch what appears underneath them in August.

January calving on the short-grass plains

State-protected parks Privately owned family land Mara River National border

Wildebeest crossed into Kenya

Private landowners holding it open

Hectares they chose not to fence

Nobody told them the border was there.

Stay in the conservancies with Great Plains → Singita guards the western corridor →

Schematic, not a survey map — the circuit and parcel shapes are illustrative; the counts are not. 207,586 ha across 17,304 landowners, per the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association. Migration figure: Mara Conservancy. Each green parcel is a family paid enough to not put up a fence.