[RwandaLibre] Bloomberg - 1 hour ago: East African Court Bars Road Seen Blocking Wildebeest Migration
East African Court Bars Road Seen Blocking Wildebeest Migration
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
The East African Court of Justice blocked plans to build a highway
through the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania that environmentalists
warned would disturb the annual migration of more than a million
wildebeest.
The Tanzanian government planned to develop a 54-kilometer (34-mile)
section of unpaved road across the park to connect the northern
tourist hub of Arusha to Musoma on Lake Victoria. Conservation groups
including the Wildlife Conservation Society, based in New York, and
the Zoological Society of London said the highway would cause
collisions between animals and traffic and may stop the animals'
yearly movement to the
Maasai Mara National Reserve in neighboring Kenya.
Construction of the road would violate East African Community rules on
the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources, the
Arusha-based EAC said in an e-mailed statement today. The East African
Court of Justice is the judicial arm of the five-nation trading bloc,
which comprises Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi
and Rwanda.
The savannah in northern Tanzania is home to animals including lions,
leopards, cheetahs, zebras and giraffes and endangered species such as
the black rhinoceros. It attracts as many as 90,000 tourists a year.
The Serengeti gets it names from the word Siringitu of the ethnic
Maasai who are native to the area, meaning "the place where the land
moves on forever."
Moving Land
The annual migration of wildebeest, accompanied by zebras and
gazelles, sees the movement of as many as 1.5 million animals
northward from the Serengeti from June through September in search of
pasture.
The road, originally planned to be built in 2012, was meant to cut
travel times for area residents, many of whom lack basic services such
as tapped water and electricity supplies, President Jakaya Kikwete
said in February 2011.
The court issued a permanent injunction blocking the construction and
maintenance of the road through the Unesco World Heritage Site. The
lawsuit was filed by the African Network for Animal Welfare, according
to the statement.
Kikwete's spokesman, Salva Rweyemamu, didn't answer his mobile phone
when Bloomberg News called today seeking comment.
To contact the reporter on this story: Sarah McGregor in Nairobi at
smcgregor5@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Nasreen Seria at
nseria@bloomberg.net Paul Richardson, Karl Maier
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