Road would slice huge Serengeti migration

The ecological impacts of roads - no matter where they may be, or potentially may be as in this case in the Serengeti - are the same: they split habitat, spread invasive weeds and lead to increased roadkill.  As described in this article by NY Times writer, Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, the Tanzanian government is considering building a road in the northern Serengeti, right through one of the largest animal migrations on the planet: more than a million wildebeests and hundreds of thousands of gazelles and zebras follow the rains through the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem.

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