Editorial Policy
How Love Serengeti researches, fact-checks and updates its Serengeti and Great Migration guides — and the named editorial team that writes and reviews them.
- ✓Every guide is researched against primary sources and reviewed before it publishes, with a visible byline and a last-updated date.
- ✓Time-sensitive facts — park fees, crossing windows, airstrip and migration timing — are framed as averages and pointed to their official source so you can re-verify.
- ✓Recommendations are editorial and independent; we take no payment for inclusion and make no guaranteed-sighting promises.
Who writes and reviews these guides
Love Serengeti's guides are written and edited by The Love Serengeti editorial team. A small editorial team writing evergreen, source-checked field guidance to the Serengeti and the Great Migration — no booking incentives, no guaranteed-sighting promises.
Each page carries a visible byline and a last-updated date, so you always know who stands behind the advice and when it was last checked against the ground truth.
How we research and fact-check
We build guides from primary sources first: Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority for fees and rules, on-the-ground knowledge of the sectors, and the long-run averages for where the herds usually are each month. Where a fact can change between seasons — a park-fee revision, an airstrip's schedule, the exact week the Mara crossings peak — we treat it as perishable, flag it as such, and tell you to confirm it before you commit money or time.
We are deliberate about the limits of certainty. The Great Migration is a 30-year average, not a timetable, and a two-week swing in either direction is normal. We never write 'guaranteed' crossings or sightings, because the wild does not work that way; we write odds, windows and how to weight them in your favour.
Independence, conservation and corrections
Recommendations are editorial. We accept no payment for inclusion, we run no affiliate links, and we earn no commission on the camps, lodges, operators or flights we mention; if that ever changes, we will say so plainly on the page. We foreground responsible-safari practice — crossing etiquette, predator distances, low-impact camps — because the ecosystem we love depends on it.
We update pages as the ecosystem and the rules change, and we re-date them when we do. If you spot an error, tell us and we'll fix it — corrections to factual mistakes are made promptly and noted where they matter.