based on copies of old German maps, Mto-wa-Mbu was tribal no-man's land between the warring Maasai and Wambulu at the turn of the century, and nowhere were there any settlements to be found.

14.4.1934 - 10.1.1959

He gave all he possessed for the wild animals of Africa, including his life

[David Babu] succeeded Jonathan Muhanga as Manyara Park Warden. He was an efficient young graduate from Mkweka College of Wildlife Management.

[Iain Douglas-Hamilton] presents thesis at 'Elephant Conference' in Ndala.

John Owen, flew in;

Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald, by Land-rover from Arusha;

Harvey Croze, and Nani came in a Combie;

Mike Norton Griffiths, and Annie, senior ecologist of the Serengeti;

Dennis Herlocker, an American in charge of forestry in the Serengeti;

David Western, from Amboseli, studying the ecology of the Maasai and wildlife drove in from Kenya;

Hugh Lamprey, Director Serengeti Research Institute flew his glider from the Serengeti

Senior ecologist of the Serengeti (wife Annie)

helped Iain Douglas-Hamilton establish his camp at Ndala River.

'Somewhat more dated, but equally interesting, Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton’s Among the Elephants which covers their research at Lake Manyara and their romance and life together on Safari.'

Research Centre

the new Park Warden at Manyara

from Amboseli, studying the ecology of the Maasai and wildlife

in 1970, an American in charge of forestry in the Serengeti;

the new Director of National Parks

known to all his colleagues as Vesey, and to the Africans as Bwana Mungosi (Mr Skins, which referred to the boots in which he was always seen).

in 1972, cameraman with Iain Douglas-Hamilton to film the elephants at Manyara, with assistant Lee Lyon

If I [Iain Douglas-Hamilton] ever needed advice on my work I could now have stimulating discussion with my official supervisor Hugh Lamprey and the other scientists who lived at Seronera, 130 miles away by road. Hugh, a pioneer in the study of big game ecology, was director of the Serengeti Research Institute which had succeeded the Serengeti Research Project. He was happy to return to research after heading the Mweka College of Wildlife Management for training young Africans to become Park Game Wardens.

Vesey had for some years experimented with an electric fence along the boundaries of the small Ngurdoto National Park (now called Arusha Park).

Jonathan Muhanga had tried one at the boundary of Manyara with Mto-wa-Mbu, but it was David Stevens Babu who got it working.

Farler, a geographer who interviewed traders returning to the coast. Reported that elephants were plentiful in the highlands above Manyara

in 1963, studying zebras

at Serengeti Research Institute, working on hyena. Had recently discovered that hyenas hunt for themselves.

was writing up his work and had booked the house [at Manyara] some time ago for this purposes.

had resigned from Kenya Game Department and established his own 'Wild Life Services', with a concession to crop elephants.

an American Scientist who suggested that elephants assembled in family units of closely related cows and their offspring, but no-one had yet been able to show that these groups were stable

recently appointed as Director of National Parks. With enthusiasm and determination he had established the Serengeti Research Project, later to become the Serengeti Research Institute.

[Lee Lyon] assistant to Dieter Plage, tall, dark haired, Californian, who worked in Manyara for two months

Mto-wa-Mbu founded in 1920. now [1967] numbers 3,400 people.

in 1966, African Park Warden at Manyara

He was the SRI scientist working on Wildebeest. By 1967 he had returned to Cambridge to write up his work.

the Serengeti Park Warden

Serengeti National Park Warden

Newly proposed National Park

Across a compound a concrete laboratory housed a ... herbarium containing all the plants of the Serengeti

Howard Baldwin, American electronics expert, contracted by George Schaller and Hans Kruuk to make radio transmitters suitable for tracking lions and hyenas. Turned to the challenge of developing similar tracking for elephants.

well known for his research on whales, who had recently switched his attention to the elephant, and was Director of the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology, based in Uganda. ... he was already developing a reliable index for ageing elephants.

Serengeti National Park Warden

Park HQ and Rest Houses

Italian farmer, south of Manyara who had arrived in 1958 and cleared several thousand acres of bush and planted maize....

... Night after night elephants and rhino destroyed his [Signor Fiorotto] crop - some 400 elephants had been shot. Professor Bernhard Grzimek, when visiting Iain Douglas-Hamilton at Manyara, offered, on behalf of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, to raise funds to buy the farm so as to extend the Park boundaries.

Simon and his wife Laila, came to film at Manyara. Had been a warden at Tsavo East under David Sheldrick.

in 1968, Vet, who had spent ten years or so perfecting methods of immobilising elephants.