DUSTS CAUSED BY CRUISING VEHICLES IN SERENGETI

I took these pictures when I visited Serengeti national park at the end of last year 2010. Plumes of dusts can be seen being produced by running vehicles, this was when I was approaching Naabi gate (Naabi hill can be seen). Soil sample displacement is taking place every time through diposition of dusts and transportation of murram from different murram pits located within the park. This has great impact on enviromnent as well as visibility. Let us rethink on this before we disregard the highway!

STOP ! THE SERENGETI HIGHWAY PROJECT

"The forty mile road through the Serengeti will adversely affect the fragile ecosystem" Arusha Times of 18 December, 2010 reports efforts are underway by NGO to stop goverment move of building a 40 miles road through the Serengeti National Park. The NGO request an injuction stopping the proposed Arusha - Msoma highway.
It is a research question! I call on different professionals to contribute on this issue as it cut accross so many disciplines before we can make a conclusion. I'm not in a position to rule out who is right in whether to proceed or not to proceed with the construction of the road but i'm optimistic! Serengeti National park has more than 1500km of existing road network of gravel and earth roads dominant in it. Still vehicles are criss crossing within these passageways, with a stretch of about 200km across the park carrying havy load traffic. All these motor cades have their impacts on the system arleady, human settlement have great impact, re introduction of animal species and population growth on the parks neighbourhood especially on the western part of the park. Enviromentalists can establish the amount of dusts being generated per day and hence per year, what are the impacts and outcomes of it over time.
Taking consideration on overhead costs (before and after cinstruction) and of all issues impact of this situation to the people of eastern shore of lake Victoria Serengeti, Musoma, Magu, Bunda and Tarime. The long route through central corridor have big impact on goods comming from Arusha, Tanga and Dar es Salaam and vise versa. Let us close hands and think about resolving this case of our times optimistically. Following slides will show some evidence on dusts being generated by vehicles

LONELINESS

Loneliness is a phenomena of being alone, solitude. In the Serengeti loneliness can be observed, surrounded by sea of grass an accacia tree is seen isolated. A pair of zebra also lonely but observing security - 180 degree each have to cover!

WESTERN SERENGETI

Entering Serengeti through western corridor you are likely to encounter these resources in their natural habitat. Ostrich, a foraging girafe and fantastic egyptian geese. The photo for geese was taken on the banks of Kirawira river, one of attractive tourist sink along the corridor.

NANGURUKURU JUNCTION

At Nangurukuru - a junction to Liwale and Kilwa Masoko there is a weigh bridge run by the Ministry of Works. Just behind the weigh bridge there is a huge yard of used construction equipments, I have been told that it also belong to the same Ministry.
I propose, it is shame for letting those scraps to remain in the area for such a long time. They are not needed by the ministry (may be!) but before they are absolete zero value (if not!) they can be auctioned to private enterprises for further use. The same grave yard of construction equipments can be seen along the same road - at Mkuranga. It is possible to sell them now rather than waiting for them to decay completelly - it is my observation anyway as may be they are looking for ministrial valuers to complete their evaluation followed by assets managers to delete from goverment list!

SOME GOOD AND FUNNY THINGS OF KILWA

My long trip begin by visiting Kilwa, in there I found good and funny things to share with you. A simple deck for vessels to dock on it together with its blue and deep see. Adjucent to entrance to the port there is an internationally recognized hotel - the Sheraton, before departure to deep see one have to visit the hotel.
In Kilwa Kivinje, a delapilating houses was seen. Of all the thing an Arsenal in front of one building was evident.

BACK ON AIR

I'm sorry for being unable to post any event for sometimes now. I had a long end of the year vacation which took me to Kahama, Mwanza, Musoma, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Arusha. I promiss ypu to provide photo on some of events I encountered while enroute.