The Maasai say they’d rather die than be moved off their ancestral land.

Tanzanian authorities say the parcel of 1 500 km2 they’re trying to clear in the Serengeti reserve falls on the Wildebeest migration route and it thus vital to conservation.

They say it cannot support the people and cattle settled there.

However the Maasai say they don’t trust the government which started four years ago selling hunting concessions on land around the game reserve to the Dubai royal family.

Clad in their traditional red blankets and beads, the Maasai have also gone to court to recover land they claim which has been sold by the government to a US safari company.

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