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Sinclair provides a dramatic first-hand account of the struggle to protect and manage the Serengeti plain. He gives his own numerous adventures and pays tribute to the heroes of Kenyan and Tanzanian wildlife management. In looking to the future, he sees multiplying challenges to open corridors, sustainable land use, and water resources in a drying region. Tanzania’s first president Julius Nyerere had claimed that his nation was protecting the great Serengeti plain migration route on behalf of all humanity, but Sinclair concludes that the battle is never done: “The lesson of the Serengeti is that nothing is ever secure against human greed … If we cannot protect Serengeti, we are unlikely to protect anything else in the natural world …”
