Serengeti highway: Tanzania government denies plans

It’s a threat to wildlife and tourism.

It’s a threat to wildlife and tourism. When a few weeks ago plans by the Tanzanian Road Authority became public, through tender documents floated for bids, that the ill fated route for a highway across the Serengeti was being revived, did alarm bells shrill across the world.

Plans for such an environmental and ecological atrocity were initially discovered in early 2010, and when exposed here promptly denied by Tanzanian government mouthpieces and sycophants. Weeks later though was evidence presented backing up this correspondent’s claims, shaming the deniers and exposing them as the misleaders they were,

WHAT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE:

  • When a few weeks ago plans by the Tanzanian Road Authority became public, through tender documents floated for bids, that the ill fated route for a highway across the Serengeti was being revived, did alarm bells shrill across the world.
  • Plans for such an environmental and ecological atrocity were initially discovered in early 2010, and when exposed here promptly denied by Tanzanian government mouthpieces and sycophants.
  • Weeks later though was evidence presented backing up this correspondent's claims, shaming the deniers and exposing them as the misleaders they were,.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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