Summary
👉 Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera.
NGORONGORO: THE Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) has launched the month-long Safari Field Challenge competition, being in a fresh bid to further marketing the world’s famous tourist site.
According to the NCCA Commissioner, Abdul-Razaq Badru, Ngorongoro is home to every human being due to the scientifically proven historical origins.
He noted that, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is more than Crete, especially due to its culture, nature, the origins of ancient humans, the secret of Humanity and its life, the Laetoli Footprints, which are over 3.6 million years old.
He expressed the other breath-taking wonders found in the area as shifting sands, witnessing the first Nyumbu birth in the Nduru area, five large animals in one area, the Lolmalasian mountain, which is the third highest in Tanzania, forests, plants, and various birds.
Speaking during a brief event for the official launching of the competition, Commissioner Badru thanked the eight participants of the competition for responding to the call of Ngorongoro.
“Welcome to Ngorongoro, where it is home to all of us. You will experience various wonders, feel them, live them, enjoy them, narrate them, and help them gain skills that will make you good ambassadors to explain to other people the collection of wonders that are in Ngorongoro,” said Commissioner Badru.
Commissioner Badru has challenged the participants of the competition to be experts in understanding Ngorongoro, speaking about Ngorongoro with a new perspective and one voice where in collaboration with Azam Media the stories, history, wonders of Ngorongoro will be told and reach the four corners of the world.
“Ngorongoro is not just a tourist attraction but a Home for every Human being where their history began,” he insisted.
Senior Assistant Commissioner in charge of tourism services and marketing, Ms. Mariam Kobelo, has explained to the participants of the Safari Field Challenge that Tanzania has many things to be proud of, but Ngorongoro has much more and emphasized the participants of the competition to go and learn, understand, and tell about Ngorongoro as more than just the Ngorongoro Market.
About Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests.
Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera.
The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains.
Extensive archaeological research has also yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years.
