Mara Region

Mara Region anchors the Tanzanian side of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem—hosting the great wildebeest migration's southern calving grounds. Tourism to Serengeti National Park and the Mara River crossing drives regional employment. Lake Victoria's southeastern shore provides fishing income alongside safari tourism. The region's Kuria and Jita peoples maintain traditional cattle-keeping alongside modern conservation economies. Gold mining in the Lake Victoria Goldfields adds extractive industry to the tourism-fishing-agriculture mix—demonstrating how ecosystem services can coexist with resource extraction.