"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
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