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"fight against road construction in the Serengeti
The Serengeti is its annual mass animal migration one of the most fascinating ecosystems in Africa The Government of Tanzania has announced a two-lane highway built through the middle of the grasslands to want.
09/16/2010.
A international group of 27 researchers has now in the magazine Nature called on to stop the road construction. The call
Road will ruin Serengeti "was published in the journal Nature (vol. 467, p. 272).
The world-famous Steppenwolf
wildebeest being attacked in the narrow waterways of crocodiles, lions stalking in the tall grass approached zebra, buffalo, antelope and elephants pull together through the savannah. Everyone knows these images from "universe" and numerous other documents. The scene of all these events is the Serengeti, a nearly 15,000 sq km broad savannah, which stretches from Tanzania to Kenya and in 1951 the first National Park Tanzania has been filed.
could now bring a large construction project of the steppe ecosystem in danger.
fantastic road through the National Park
is already 15 years in Tanzania, according to a connection between the Tanzanian coast, the thought Victoria and Central Africa, to lead through the reserve. After the last election in 2005, the Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete promised to make a connection between the coast and Lake Victoria.
said in a speech in July this year Kikwete again, not wanting to deviate the road. In January 2011, the raw materials for the project bereitgestellt werden, 2012 werde mit dem Bau begonnen, hieß es weiter von Seiten der Regierung.
Das Projekt soll angeblich 480 Mio. US-Dollar kosten.
Sollte das Mammutprojekt wirklich durchgeführt - und nicht nur als Wahlwerbung verwendet - werden, würde es einen nicht wieder gutzumachenden Schaden am Ökosystem der Serengeti anrichten, das weltweit einzigartig ist.
Die jährliche Spektakel der Savanne
Diese Landschaft ist der Schauplatz eines phänomenalen Naturschauspiels: Einer jährlichen Massentierwanderung, ausgelöst durch den Zug der Weißschwanzgnus, where many other herbivores and predators follow naturally.
cross over 2 million animals each year in early June, the from Serengeti Ngorongoro Crater west to Lake Victoria. From there they migrate to the end of the rainy season between October and November after the North Rift Valley. In December they finally return back to the volcanic plains back to Ngorongoro.
Because of this natural phenomenon has been the Serengeti in 1981 even declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
alternative route to conservation
A 27-member group Andrew Dobson of Princeton University and Markus Borner of the Frankfurt Zoological Society has in the journal Nature "an appeal worded to avoid road construction. And more than that: The researchers have concocted an alternative to the planned road construction.
The scientists describe their call is a model in which bypasses the road south of the park and connects the city of Arusha with the coast. This road would reach nearly five times as many people as the current proposed road. The way of the southern road was namely 50 kilometers longer than the northern route, but you could use in the south the gravel roads as the infrastructure to save costs.
The southern route was preferable so the scientists say. It would also connect the interior with the coast, but at the same time recognize the global value of ecosystem of the Serengeti.
Peter Stenitzer science.ORF.at, "
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