Serengeti National Park is located in Serengeti, Tanzania and was established in 1951. Stewart Edward White was the first person to explore the northern Serengeti in 1913. The total area covered by the park is 14,750 square kilometers that includes savanna, woodlands, riverine forest and grassland plains. The park is bordered by Kenyan border to the north where lies the Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park lie the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Maswa Game Reserve lies to the southwest of the park.
The park is divided into three parts namely Serengeti Plains, Western Corridor and Northern Serengeti. Serengeti Plains is a treeless grassland that consists of hoofed animals such as impala, hartebeest, buffalo, waterbuck and topi. The vegetation in the park comprises of Kopjes. The Western Corridor region includes swampy savannah covered with black clay soil and main fauna found here are martial eagle, giraffe and crocodiles. Open woodlands and hills influence Northern Serengeti landscape where animals such as zebra, elephant, giraffe, dik dik and wildebeest live. Tanzania National Park Authority manages the park. The project “Snapshot Serengeti” undertaken by University of Minnesota Lion Project, which is commissioned here, aims to classify 30 species using 225 camera traps.