Much of the improvements that can be done to the ecosystem has to be policies and measures mandated on a governmental level. Since the Serengeti has been established as a protected area and hunting has been legally prohibited, there has been a gradual recovery in the wildlife population. Likewise, policies and measures have to get enforced by Tanzanian and Kenyan governments to allocate more portion of their national budget for protection and preservation of the Serengeti ecosystem. Specifically, there are two areas of improvements, in which the ecosystem can be most benefited.
Firstly, the majority of the degradation of the environment and the biodiversity of the ecosystem has been directly and indirectly caused by the overpopulation in Tanzania and Kenya. Even though the fertility rates in these countries have dropped since the 1960s when they were 7.7 children per family and 6.6 children per family respectively, the population growth rate is far greater than the countries with stable population growth pattern. The two governments will have to come up with strategic policies that are focused on restricting the unregulated growth of population and public education on family planning.
Secondly, so far as the future prospects of the Serengeti ecosystem heavily depend on the income from tourism, the Tanzanian and Kenyan national park system should strive to improve the quality of their tourism industry. According to one source, 16% of the Tanzanian gross domestic product is accounted by the tourism in the nation. Thus, there is a huge incentive for both Tanzanian and Kenyan governments to set aside more budget for the improvement of their national park system. Moreover, as the closure of the border between Tanzania and Kenya in the 1970s proved that negligence in the maintenance of the national park could bring a consequence as disastrous as an extinction of a species, it is not enough to emphasize how important it is for the two countries to make sure that the tourism income flows into their revenue system in the future.
