{"id":1944,"date":"2018-11-20T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neu.serengeti.org\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2018-11-20T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:41:28","slug":"road-cutting-though-serengeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neu.serengeti.org\/index.php\/road-cutting-though-serengeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Road cutting through Serengeti"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span> new road through the Serengeti National Park, connecting the eastern and western parts of northern Tanzania, could provide much needed development opportunities to the people in the region and spur growth of the national economy. But it would endanger the Great Migration and potentially trigger the collapse of the Serengeti ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Twice a year, the Great Migration leads the herds of wildebeest, zebra and Thomson\u2019s gazelle through the northern part of the Serengeti National Park<\/a>. The area does not offer much to the animals, they are merely passing through on their way to the Mara river, the only year-round source of water in the Serengeti ecosystem. And beyond the river lie the important dry-season feeding grounds of the Masai Mara in Kenya. Until they migrate back south when the rains set in again, the animals feed in their northern refuge.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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