As well, national parks and reserves are increasingly becoming islands surrounded by a growing number of human settlements. Previous conservation efforts concentrated on creating vital protected areas and world heritage sites such as the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. However, more than ever, wildlife requires more space than protected areas alone can ever provide.

Focus on wild life corridors.
Wildlife corridors are large swaths of land that are critical for the natural migration of wildlife between geographical areas of seasonal importance. These are areas of exceptional beauty and scenery with enough room to sustain even the largest mammals. They are also home to an increasingly number of people who use the land for herding, agriculture, and business. Fortunately, if managed correctly there is enough room for both a healthy ecosystem, as well as strong successful communities. Wildlife instinctively migrate along age-old routes in search of nutrients and water. For example, many ungulates (e.g. wildebeast, zebras and gazelle), as well as, elephants, traditionally migrate from Tarangire National Park in the wet season to feed off the vegetation from the nutrient rich soils of the Simanjiro Plains. In the dry season, the animals move back to Tarangire National Park drink from the Tarangire River, a reliable source of water.

Habitat fragmentation is the most serious threat for wildlife today, and the major cause of the worldwide wave of extinctions. But to keep land accessible to wild animals, people must benefit from, and value, their wild neighbors.