Give reason to explain why the
maasai community lost their grazing land
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The Maasais lost their grazing lands due to the following reasons: ... Large areas of grazing land were also turned into game reserves where pastoralists were not allowed to enter. This lack of good grazing lands and a two-year drought led to losses of almost 60% cattle belonging to the Maasai tribes.
In the late nineteenth century, in what would be knowns as the ‘scramble for Africa’, European imperial powers slicing up the region into different colonies with little to no regard about the local sentiments. In 1885, the land of the Maasai, Maasailand, was cut into half with an international boundary between British Kenya and German Tanzania. As a result, the best grazing lands were reserved for white settlers with Maasai being pushed into a small area in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
Large areas of grazing land were also turned into game reserves like the Maasai Mara and Samburu National Park in Kenya and Serengeti Park in Tanzania. Pastoralists were not allowed to enter these reserves; they could neither hunt animals nor graze their herds in these areas.