The world’s largest land mammal migration isn’t the famous journey of wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, elands, and impala through the Serengeti of Tanzania to the Masai Mara region of Kenya and back again each year. Yes, Africa’s Great Migration is enormous, but it’s not the biggest. That distinction goes to the Great Nile Migration, in which a variety of antelope travel across the vast landscape of South Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia. The primary species in this migration are white-eared kob, tiang, Mongalla gazelle, and Bohor reedbuck.

Though this migration is not new, knowledge of it outside the region is, due to the long history of political turmoil in this region. South Sudan only became a country in 2011 — it’s the world’s newest country — and still seeks stability and economic growt

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