After leaving Kenya, Magufuli orders highway that may cripple Masai Mara

[Xplorer]

Nov. 01, 2016, 6:00 pm
By JOHN MUCHANGI and GILBERT KOECH
The STAR.

An outline of the proposed road shows it will cut off Serengeti National Park from Masai Mara, Kenya's most prized national reserve.


Barely a day after visiting Kenya, Tanzanian President John Magufuli has authorised construction of a highway that might suffocate Masai Mara National Reserve.

The highway will cut Serengeti National Park into two close to the Kenyan border, meaning it might interfere with animals crossing over to Kenya.

Conservationists warn Kenya - especially Narok county - will be hardest hit as the highway may affect the annual wildebeest migration, the largest remaining migratory system in the world.

The move is expected to open another round of battles with conservationists in Kenya and Tanzania, who successfully stopped the proposed highway last year through the courts.

In an online document, the Tanzanian government said funds have already been set aside for a paved (bitumen) road for the towns of Natta, Mugumu, and Loliondo.

The map shows the first phase will go up to Tabora B Gate at the park boundary. The next phase will extend this highway across the park to Loliondo, then presumably continue south. Construction will take 36 months.

“The works consist of upgrading the existing unpaved road to Bitumen standard with a 6.5m wide carriageway and 1.5m wide shoulders on each side for a total length of 59.65 km between Natta and Tabora B Gate,” tender documents from the Ministry of Works state.

Tanzanian activists have pledged to stop the highway initially proposed five years ago.

“We're sorry to announce that plans to bisect the Serengeti with a commercial highway are again underway,” the Serengeti Watch, the NGO that successfully stopped the highway told members last week.

“We must renew efforts to educate those in power about the disastrous impact of the highway and rally support for a better alternative that does not destroy a priceless World Heritage.”

Serengeti Watch accused the Tanzanian government of ignoring scientific opinion against the road.

“Those of you who have followed us know what this means. Serengeti Watch and many other organisations, including the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, opposed this disastrous project for years,” they said.

The move comes barely a year after Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline ran into a battle.This was after some designs showed it would cut through the highly endangered Serengeti park.

Magufuli left Kenya on Tuesday after a two-day visit during which he and President Uhuru Kenyatta agreed to cooperate on infrastructure development.

They launched the Ngong Road/Lenana interchange during an occasion that saw Uhuru praise Magufuli for supporting infrastructure projects that will boost their ties.

 

[Xplorer]

Nilikuwa bado sijapata jibu why JPM asafiri kwenda Kenya kipindi hiki!now i am connecting the DOTS.

 

[Xplorer]

kuna mjinga mmoja alisema hivi baada ya ile hukumu ya mahakama....."This was not a win for ANAW; nor for our lawyer, Saitabao Ole Kanchory, not for Serengeti Watch, not for our expert witness John Kuloba, but for the millions of animals in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. It is a win for nature and God’s creation. Nature has won today"....ha ha ha haaaaa reallly!!!!

 

[Gojaga Nize]

Naona tu Serengeti... Hayo mengine hata sielewi. Nauliza hivi serengeti kuna nini? Au kuna uhakiki wa Swala na Sungura

 

[Kafrican]

Nilikuwa bado sijapata jibu why JPM asafiri kwenda Kenya kipindi hiki!now i am connecting the DOTS.

soma hapa effect ya kujenga hio bara bara katikati ya hapo nyumbu wanapatikana upande wa tz, inaharibu ecosystem yote kabisa hata hio ya tz, uzuzu mwingi na chuki didhi ya kenya unawafanya mjimalize wenyewe., ...
kitambo uchimbaji madini karibu na kando kando ya serengeti ulikua umegomeshwa, sasa inasemekana ulianzishwa tena, sasa lengo moja ya hii barabara ni kusafirisha hayo madini kupitia hio njia fupi badala ya kuzunguka mbuga, alafu kujengwa kwa barabara inamaanisha nyumba pia zitaanzwa kujengwa kando kando ya barabara ndani ya mbuga,,...... yani mtakua mnaiharibu kabisa hio mbuga, itaondolewa kwa list ya world heritage sites.....

alafu ukumbuke watu wengi zaidi hutembelea hizi mbuga wakati wa migration ili waone nyumbu waki migraye na kuvuka mito, mkizulia hivi basi wale nyumbu wengne wengiwao watakufa maana sababu moja ya ku migrate ni kutafuta nyasi.......

Highway Development Threatens Serengeti

 

[jorochere95]

Nov. 01, 2016, 6:00 pm
By JOHN MUCHANGI and GILBERT KOECH
The STAR.

An outline of the proposed road shows it will cut off Serengeti National Park from Masai Mara, Kenya's most prized national reserve.


Barely a day after visiting Kenya, Tanzanian President John Magufuli has authorised construction of a highway that might suffocate Masai Mara National Reserve.

The highway will cut Serengeti National Park into two close to the Kenyan border, meaning it might interfere with animals crossing over to Kenya.

Conservationists warn Kenya - especially Narok county - will be hardest hit as the highway may affect the annual wildebeest migration, the largest remaining migratory system in the world.

The move is expected to open another round of battles with conservationists in Kenya and Tanzania, who successfully stopped the proposed highway last year through the courts.

In an online document, the Tanzanian government said funds have already been set aside for a paved (bitumen) road for the towns of Natta, Mugumu, and Loliondo.

The map shows the first phase will go up to Tabora B Gate at the park boundary. The next phase will extend this highway across the park to Loliondo, then presumably continue south. Construction will take 36 months.

“The works consist of upgrading the existing unpaved road to Bitumen standard with a 6.5m wide carriageway and 1.5m wide shoulders on each side for a total length of 59.65 km between Natta and Tabora B Gate,” tender documents from the Ministry of Works state.

Tanzanian activists have pledged to stop the highway initially proposed five years ago.

“We're sorry to announce that plans to bisect the Serengeti with a commercial highway are again underway,” the Serengeti Watch, the NGO that successfully stopped the highway told members last week.

“We must renew efforts to educate those in power about the disastrous impact of the highway and rally support for a better alternative that does not destroy a priceless World Heritage.”

Serengeti Watch accused the Tanzanian government of ignoring scientific opinion against the road.

“Those of you who have followed us know what this means. Serengeti Watch and many other organisations, including the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, opposed this disastrous project for years,” they said.

The move comes barely a year after Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline ran into a battle.This was after some designs showed it would cut through the highly endangered Serengeti park.

Magufuli left Kenya on Tuesday after a two-day visit during which he and President Uhuru Kenyatta agreed to cooperate on infrastructure development.

They launched the Ngong Road/Lenana interchange during an occasion that saw Uhuru praise Magufuli for supporting infrastructure projects that will boost their ties.

Too disastrous ! Serengeti watch must intervene now !

 

[Kafrican]

https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/unpaved-road-through-serengeti-to-progress/


lakini unafaa ulete habari kutoka serikali ya t, mwanzo ndo tue na uhakika

 

[Xplorer]

hio picha ulioiweka kama avatar haikufai kabisa

soma hapa effect ya kujenga hio bara bara katikati ya hapo nyumbu wanapatikana upande wa tz, inaharibu ecosystem yote kabisa hata hio ya tz, uzuzu mwingi na chuki didhi ya kenya unawafanya mjimalize wenyewe., ...
kitambo uchimbaji madini karibu na kando kando ya serengeti ulikua umegomeshwa, sasa inasemekana ulianzishwa tena, sasa lengo moja ya hii barabara ni kusafirisha hayo madini kupitia hio njia fupi badala ya kuzunguka mbuga, alafu kujengwa kwa barabara inamaanisha nyumba pia zitaanzwa kujengwa kando kando ya barabara ndani ya mbuga,,...... yani mtakua mnaiharibu kabisa hio mbuga, itaondolewa kwa list ya world heritage sites.....

alafu ukumbuke watu wengi zaidi hutembelea hizi mbuga wakati wa migration ili waone nyumbu waki migraye na kuvuka mito, mkizulia hivi basi wale nyumbu wengne wengiwao watakufa maana sababu moja ya ku migrate ni kutafuta nyasi.......

Highway Development Threatens Serengeti

Huo ujinga wa hizo Article za wazungu achana nazo!hizo minerals hata hazina maana,litazame hili swala kwa njia hii...Tanzania tumekuwa tukipata shida kufanya biashara na Uganda kwaajili ya barabara,biashara kubwa kutoka uganda na Central Africa imekuwa ikiangukia bandari ya mombasa kwa kukosa njia fupi kwenda Tanga au Dar es salaam.

We want to open up our country to the vast central Africa market na harakati za kufanya hivyo tumeshazianza kwa kuwa ndani ya kipindi kifupi tayari tumeshafanikiwa kumshawishi Museven ajenge bandari ya Bukasa na tayari ameshakopa $48m kwaajili ya kazi hiyo na tumemuhakikishia matumizi ya bandari ya Tanga kwaajili ya Uganda.hivyo hii barabara ni muhimu sana kwetu kuliko kwa hao wanyama.

And the way i see how these things are unfolding i will not be suprised kama hili bomba la mafuta litapita through this route,kama umezisoma vizuri speech za Muheshimiwa Uhuru na Muheshimiwa Magufuli walipokutana utagundua something between the lines.sitaki kuamini hii barabara itajengwa alafu bomba lisipite sambamba na hii barabara...hell NO.

 

[Xplorer]

Too disastrous ! Serengeti watch must intervene now !

Who is Serengeti watch!kama sio a bunch of white peoples who uses serengeti to collect funds for their tumbos?

kama hawa watu wanao uchungu kweli na hii Serengeti kuliko sisi ni kwanini wasitoe hizo funds wanazokusanya kila siku in the name of serving serengeti na kujenga tunnel ya 53km kukatiza hiko kipande?

 

[Ubavu]

Kwahili mi naungana na Kenyans... Tanzania tutadharaulika sana kama tukitekeleza mradi huu bila ya kufata Environmental Impact Assessment ambayo najua lazima itafanyika na majibu yake yatapinga or kutoa altenatives (zenye low negative impacts to the environment) ya utekelezwaji wa huo mradi... Unless otherwise EIA statement iwetempered or idharauliwe na magu..!

 

[Xplorer]

Kwahili mi naungana na Kenyans... Tanzania tutadharaulika sana kama tukitekeleza mradi huu bila ya kufata Environmental Impact Assessment ambayo najua lazima itafanyika na majibu yake yatapinga or kutoa altenatives (zenye low negative impacts to the environment) ya utekelezwaji wa huo mradi... Unless otherwise EIA statement iwetempered or idharauliwe na magu..!

Ungana nao tu sisi tunasonga mbele,EIA is there to protect Human and not Animals.

 

[Geza Ulole]

hio picha ulioiweka kama avatar haikufai kabisa

soma hapa effect ya kujenga hio bara bara katikati ya hapo nyumbu wanapatikana upande wa tz, inaharibu ecosystem yote kabisa hata hio ya tz, uzuzu mwingi na chuki didhi ya kenya unawafanya mjimalize wenyewe., ...
kitambo uchimbaji madini karibu na kando kando ya serengeti ulikua umegomeshwa, sasa inasemekana ulianzishwa tena, sasa lengo moja ya hii barabara ni kusafirisha hayo madini kupitia hio njia fupi badala ya kuzunguka mbuga, alafu kujengwa kwa barabara inamaanisha nyumba pia zitaanzwa kujengwa kando kando ya barabara ndani ya mbuga,,...... yani mtakua mnaiharibu kabisa hio mbuga, itaondolewa kwa list ya world heritage sites.....

alafu ukumbuke watu wengi zaidi hutembelea hizi mbuga wakati wa migration ili waone nyumbu waki migraye na kuvuka mito, mkizulia hivi basi wale nyumbu wengne wengiwao watakufa maana sababu moja ya ku migrate ni kutafuta nyasi.......

Highway Development Threatens Serengeti

safii sana baada yakumuita a-launch southern bypass iliyo-dissect Nairobi NP! Magufuli has learned from Kenyan hypocrisy and perfected the game! Mtulie kuona game ikichezwa!

 

[Geza Ulole]

Ungana nao tu sisi tunasonga mbele,EIA is there to protect Human and not Animals.

as a matter of fact Dr Leakey proposed an overpass at that streatch that crosses the migration route!

 

[niah]

Who is Serengeti watch!kama sio a bunch of white peoples who uses serengeti to collect funds for their tumbos?

kama hawa watu wanao uchungu kweli na hii Serengeti kuliko sisi ni kwanini wasitoe hizo funds wanazokusanya kila siku in the name of serving serengeti na kujenga tunnel ya 53km kukatiza hiko kipande?

Mchangiaji ujue kuwa ardhi si ya binadamu peke yetu bali na wanyama na viumbe wengine. Kama ulishasafiri kabla ya kujengwa kwa barabara ya lami toka Rusahunga kwenda Bukoba nadhani utakumbuka tulivyokuwa tunapishana na twiga, swala, primate wa kila aina na wanyama wengine hata siku moja tulipishana na tembo. Leo nenda huwezi ona mnyama yeyote sababu barabara ilivyojengwa imekatisha malisho so they can not go to the east. Kule kulikuwa na miti mirefu ambayo twiga walipenda majani yake. More over sasa hivi wanyama hawawezi panda kingo za barabara hivyo wametenganishwa na koo zao. That is what will happen to the Serengeti. This is not political hii ni kwa ustawi wa viumbe wote. Wanyama na ndege tuliozoea kuwaona vijijini kama Kwale sasa hivi mtoto ni kumpigia hadithi sababu ya muingiliano wa watu na viumbe kupita kiasi.

 

[Mwanyasi]

Enendeni mkaitawale dunia na vitu vyote vilivyomo.

 

[Xplorer]

safii sana baada yakumuita a-launch southern bypass iliyo-dissect Nairobi NP! Magufuli has learned from Kenyan hypocrisy and perfected the game! Mtulie kuona game ikichezwa!

Alafu tutamuita Uhuru aje kuifungua.

 

[Sakasaka Mao]

Hii Tabora B Gate ni sehemu gani kijiografia?

 

[Sakasaka Mao]

Naona tu Serengeti... Hayo mengine hata sielewi. Nauliza hivi serengeti kuna nini? Au kuna uhakiki wa Swala na Sungura

Bw Gojaga Naje, mwandishi anaongelea makubaliano yaliyofikiwa na wakubwa ya kujenga barabara itakayopasua mbuga za Setengeti(Tz) na Masai Mara(Kny), kwamba zinaathari kubwa sana kwa hao swala na sungura unaosema.

 

[Zero Hours]

Tulidhani ni chadema tu ndio wataisoma number kumbe hadi wakenya. Magufuli baba nimekunyoshea mikono ngoja tufunge mikanda uku uchumi ukikua kwa 7.2%=

 

[Cannabis]

Ikiwezekana tuongeze na Reli kabisa ya standard guage ikatize pale Ngorongoro kuungana na hii barabara🙂