The rangelands north of Amboseli to the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo West National Parks in the east, and south to Kilimanjaro National Park is a central connection point for migrating wildlife and contains some of the most important habitat left in Africa.

Amboseli National Park
Amboseli became a wildlife sanctuary in the 1940s and was declared a national park in 1974. Amboseli can be very dry and dusty, but the permanent swamps and lakes sustain big numbers of elephants and plains game. It is probably here, at Amboseli National Park, where you encounter Africa's largest and most beautiful big-tusked elephants. Largely untouched by poaching, the park supports about 1500 of these great animals.

Chyulu Hills
Tucked away between Tsavo West National Park and Amboseli National Park, the Chyulu Hills form an important wildlife corridor, especially for the elephants. The Chyulu Hills are also home to large mammals such as elephant, leopard, giraffe, giant forest pig, buffalo and a variety of antelope. There are eight known critically-endangered Eastern black rhinoceros that spend most of their time in the densely-forested part of the Chyulu Hills.

Tsavo
Tsavo National Park was founded in 1948 and subsequently divided into a western (Tsavo West) and an eastern part (Tsavo East). Tsavo is home to some of the few remaining Big Tuskers, i.e. elephants whose tusks weigh over 100 pounds (> 45 kg) and often even touch the ground.