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Production		die multimedia schmiede, Munich, Ralf Jaeger, Ralph Bojen, Katja Schwarz, www.dmms.de
Design		TW Design, Munich, Tilo Wondollek, www.tw-design.de
Organisation		Business & Nature, Munich, Diana Zeitler und Aimé Sans, www.business-nature.de Tanzania National Parks, Emily Kisamo Frankfurt Zoological Society, Markus Borner
Editors		Diana Zeitler, Pia Zimmermann
Providing		Factsoft AG, www.factsoft.de
Seed money		Joyce Silvermann
Legal Advice		Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C., New York, Barbara Solomon, Allan Zelnick - and Janice Gleason for establishing the contact
Special Thanks		to Serengeti Foundation, U.S.A. for making available their domain "www.serengeti.org" to the FZS.
Photographs		Reinhard "Leo" Kuenkel Anup and Manoj Shah, with special thanks to LUEBBE Verlag for providing the breathtaking photos from Reinhard Radkes book "Serengeti - Fenster zur Schoepfung" (Luebbe Verlag, 1999) Birgit Koch und Klaus-Peter Wolf, www.fotos-online.de Ronald Frommann, www.laif.de/frommann Flycatcher Safaris, www.flycat.com Felix Borner Tilo Wondollek Alan Root Reinhard Radke
Authors		Markus Borner, Frankfurt Zoological Society Sophie Buck, film maker Sarah Cleaveland, University of Edinburgh Sarah Durant, Zoological Society of London Melanie Finn, travel writer Justin Hando, Tanzania National Parks Michael Jeschke, biology student Emily Kisamo, Tanzania National Parks Joe ole Kuwai, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Serengeti Simon Mduma, Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Monitoring Titus Mlengeya, Tanzania National Parks Craig Packer, University of Minnesota Alan Root, film maker Friedemann Schrenck, Frankfurt University and Landesmuseum Hessen Greg Sharam, University of British Columbia Anthony Sinclair, University of British Columbia Paula White, hyena researcher Diana Zeitler, Business & Nature Pia Zimmermann, political scientist and environmental journalist Please use the website's contact form if you wish to get in touch with any of the authors.

		The Making of this website "You may say I am a dreamer But I am not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us And the world will be as one." John Lennon, "Imagine" Night was falling swiftly over the plains. Pimbi, the Hyrax, was already asleep under the roof of my Serengeti Home. Dimly illuminated by a new moon, two buffaloes appeared from under the trees walking towards the small pond in front of the balcony where I was sitting very quietly with Pia, a friend from Germany. Two spotted Hyenas passed just a few meters from us: "Sweetie" and her cub have their den close to the house and say hello every evening shortly after sunset before they start their nightly prowl. Far away a lion pride was roaring.
Pia and I were talking about the magic of the place, how modern man left the Serengeti only 120,000 years ago and how much at home this place felt to us. Suddenly an incredible shooting star illuminated the sky in a long arc and faded into nothingness. I remembered that as a kid, we always tried to wish something onto the shooting star, and how terribly bad I was at wishing because I could never make up my mind quick enough. This time I had a wish already in my mind: I wished that we found a way to share the wonders of the Serengeti with the rest of the world. Living in the bush, my understanding of the Internet was rather dim and it took another two friends to open the door. Diana and Aime were both working in the computer industry and took a year break to travel around the world. They ended up their trip in the Serengeti and gave the dream a name - "The Serengeti Website". Over endless beers, G&T's and long discussions, the fuzzy idea became a project. We had an idea, a project, a group of enthusiastic people - but no money. The story of my life! I remembered some long time friends from the States: Gathering up all my courage I wrote to Joyce and Neil about our ideas and about our money problems. Being a true friend she saw the beauty of the idea and helped out. Slowly things became more realistic and with the seed money provided by Joyce we were able to bring Tilo, a web-designer from Munich, Germany, to the Serengeti. Tilo could not decide what impressed him most - the wildlife, the incredible landscape, the beautiful women researchers or the local rum. However, after a week in the bush he was as enthusiastic about the website project as all of us. Back in Germany, Pia started to work on a text concept and Tilo started developping the "touch and feel" of the design. Diana and Aime teamed up with Katja, Ralf and Ralph from "die multimedia schmiede" an internet production company in Munich open minded enough to programme this website free of charge! In the Serengeti I was trying to convince friends, researchers, wardens and anybody whom I could lay my hands on, to help writing website contributions. The world's top wildlife photographers promised to chip in their pictures. A multinational team from all continents, from different cultures and different backgrounds joined hands for one ideal: to bring the Serengeti magic into cyberspace. If we had known how much work was waiting for us, we probably would have never started. But finally, after endless hours of free work by everybody, our dream is online. In a world driven by money, everyday pressures and heavy work demands it was a tremendous experience to see people working together for something they believe in - for the magic that is the Serengeti National Park. Serengeti, 20 November 2000 Dr. Markus Borner Regional Representative Frankfurt Zoological Society Many thanks to all of you, who contributed to www.serengetipark.org!