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Hold the Champagne: Highway to Split Serengeti After All? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1309441550
But after a closer look at the official Tanzanian statement behind the reports, it's questions, not toasts, that are being raised, and conservationists are divided as to whether it means the highway is truly canceled....
Officially, the road was supposed to boost Tanzania's economy by linking isolated, impoverished Serengeti villages outside the park with the Tanzanian city of Arusha, to the east, and the shores of Lake Victoria and other central African nations, to the west.
Some conservationists, though, have speculated that the real motive for the road is to accommodate mining interests or to lay the groundwork for a railway....
Duke's Pimm agreed. "Many in the conservation community are not popping the champagne cork just yet," he said. "This is not enough."
Gravel or paved, an expanded road that bisects the park will be devastating to Serengeti wildlife, he added.
"A road by any other name is still going to be a disaster," Pimm said. "I think this is sophistry. ... They're still going to build a road."
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