It is inconceivable to learn of the horrible news that the Tanzanian Government is planning to build a highway through the very sensitive Serengeti National Park. How can they even think of this? The proposed highway would run right through the northern section of the park and disturb the ancient migration route of millions of wildebeests, zebras, elephants and gazelles. Tanzania has long been known as a beacon of conservation, having saved 25% of their entire land mass for conservation purposes.
The Serengeti National Park is a World Heritage Site. A highway through the migration route would surely mean the end of one of the last great migrations left in the world. What is more mystifying is that a southern route, which would serve more people and leave the migration routes alone, has been proposed but not adopted.
According to the Frankfurt Zoological Society, long an important supporter of the Serengeti, the effect of the proposed highway on the park and to Tanzania's status would be tragic and dramatic:
The entire Serengeti will change into a completely different landscape holding only a fraction of its species and losing its world-class tourism potential and its status as the world’s most famous National Park - an immense backlash against the goodwill and conservation achievements of Tanzania.
The loss of the Great Serengeti Migration – the last of its kind in the world - would mean the end of Tanzania’s priceless natural and national heritage, the end of the Serengeti as an iconic World Heritage Site and also a significant decline in tourism in the Serengeti and in the neighbouring Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya.
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