Engaresero Eramatare Community Development Initiative (EECDI), a community-based organization formed by the general assembly of 12,000 people from Engaresero village, manages the territory of life. It is administratively situated in Engaresero village, Ngorongoro District, in the northern tourism circuit of Tanzania. The territory is the source of pasture and water for both livestock and wildlife throughout the years.Ĭurrently, this territory is managed and governed by both customary Maasai structures and the national and international frameworks related to natural resources of national and global importance. The Maasai people depend on the Lake’s wider catchment area for their livelihoods because it is the most reliable wetland area for the large dry landscape. Named after Lake Natron, the world’s most critical breeding site for lesser flamingos, the territory is home to diverse groups of flora and fauna and forms an important corridor, ecosystem, and landscape of two World Heritage Sites: the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Largely occupied by the Indigenous Maasai People, this spectacular territory of life is adjacent to Oldonyo-Lengai, the Mountain of God, an active volcanic mountain in the country.

Natron lake animals