But these reserves were tiny by comparison to the wildernesses the British colonists made in East Africa.At first the land they seized was set aside for hunting, but as the game ran out, they began to preserve itfor the camera rather than the gun. After the Second World War, Bernhard Grzimek, "the father ofconservation" in East Africa, announced that he would turn the Serengeti in northern Tanzania into a vastnational park. This land, which is possibly the longest-inhabited place on earth, was, he declared, a"primordial wilderness". Though there was no evidence that local people threatened the wildlife,Grzimek decided that "no men, not even native ones, should live inside its borders." His approachwas gleefully embraced by the British. Thousands of square miles of savannah in Kenya and Tanzania wereannexed, and its inhabitants expelled. Only the whites could afford the entrance fees to the reserves, so onlythey were permitted to enter the new, primordial wilderness.