Reporting Date: 15th July 2012

The advance team of the wildebeests and zebras have now reached the sand river zone on the border between the Mara and Serengeti after having  left the lobo and Bolongoja regions last week. Today, only a small group of about five hundred zebras crossed the sand river into the mara leaving behind a large group of wildebeests  and more zebras  at the foot of the Nyamalumbwa hills which is the main chain of hills closer to the sand river.  Many others are spread  out in the acacia woodlands  at the foot of these hills.

The second group of these animals has left the fort Ikoma region in the west and is almost reaching the Shonzo plains  which isthe middle ground between the eastern and western serengeti.

NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers