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4/2/2013
They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had ...
19/1/2012
We live in an era of unprecedented
road and highway expansion -- an era in which many of the world’s last tropical wildernesses, from the Amazon to Borneo to the Congo Basin, have been penetrated by
roads. This surge in
road building is being ...
6/7/2011
Serengeti Highway Plan Scrapped
Over Potential Threats to Key Wildlife
The Tanzanian government has scrapped plans to build a two-lane highway across the northern edge of
Serengeti National Park, after scientists warned the plan ...
2/7/2011
Unpaved
road through
Serengeti to progressTo read more about Tanzania's recent announcement related to the
Serengeti road: Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong fight in
Serengeti road.
After a week of confusion, the ...
30/6/2011
We are running out of oil, food, water... and time
Despite all the human progress made in the 20th century, one day it will be remembered as the century we wreaked unheard destruction on our planet, fought the deadliest wars, and ...
24/6/2011
The
Serengeti is a key destination for tourists in TanzaniaControversial plans to build a tarmac
road across the
Serengeti National Park have been scrapped after warnings that it could devastate wildlife.
The Tanzanian government ...
23/6/2011
Breaking news:
Serengeti road cancelled
In what is a victory for environmentalists, scientists, tourism, and the largest land migration on Earth, the Tanzanian government has cancelled a commercial
road that would have cut through the ...
2/5/2011
Conservation organizations ask Tanzania to reconsider UNESCO status for Eastern Arc Mountains
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has recently stated he would withdraw the application to list two Eastern Arc Mountains as UNESCO World ...
14/4/2011
From the
Serengeti to Lake Natron: is the Tanzanian government aiming to destroy its wildlife and lands?
Thousands of lesser flamingoes (Phoenicopterus minor) crowd in Lake Bogoria in Kenya. Nearly all of these flamingoes will breed in ...
26/3/2011
International pressure is growing on the Tanzanian government to shelve its controversial plans to build a two-lane highway across the
Serengeti, one of the most important wildlife sites in the world.
Scientists claim that the
road will ...
16/3/2011
Serengeti road project opposed by 'powerful' tour company lobby
Government plans to build a
road through
Serengeti National Park came up against more opposition this week as the Tanzanian Association of Tour Operators (Tato) came out ...
1/3/2011
The World Bank has offered Tanzania an alternative to stop a major
road project across the
Serengeti national park that conservationists say threatens one of Africa's biggest wildlife spectacles.
Conservation groups say the government's ...
23/2/2011
First International
Serengeti Day hopes to halt
road project
Migrating wildebeest and zebra. Photo by: Jan Martin McGuire.
On March 19th the conservation organization,
Serengeti Watch, is planning the world's first International ...
10/2/2011
Leaked government study:
road will damage
Serengeti wildlife, despite president's assurances
Tanzania's President, Jakaya Kikwete, today gave promises that his proposed
road project, which will bisect the
Serengeti plains, would not hurt ...
10/2/2011
An environmental impact study on a
road Tanzania wants to build through the
Serengeti found that it may affect the famed wildebeest migration and threaten endangered species, according to a copy of the leaked report.
Tanzanian President ...
31/1/2011
World Bank offers to save
Serengeti from bisecting
road
The World Bank has offered to help fund an alternative route for a planned
road project that would otherwise cut through Tanzania's world famous
Serengeti National Park, according ...
28/1/2011
When I step down from the plane, the first thing I see is three gazelles sprinting off down the gravel airstrip. The second, more significant for what's to come, is a man dressed in scarlet robes waving to me from beside a Toyota Land Cruiser. In ...
8/12/2010
An African conservation group said Wednesday it would ask a regional court to freeze a project to build a
road through Tanzania's iconic
Serengeti park.
It said it would seek an injunction from the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) ...
16/9/2010
A group of scientists has appealed against a
road planned in Tanzania's
Serengeti National Park, saying it would cause an environmental disaster.
Writing in the journal Nature, the 27 scientists said the
road would curtail wildebeest ...
15/9/2010
Plans to drive a 50-kilometre (31-mile) two-lane highway into Tanzania's
Serengeti would destroy one of the world's last great wildlife sanctuaries, top biologists warned on Wednesday."The
road will cause an environmental disaster," 27 ...
13/8/2010
Environmentalists are dismayed at plans by the Tanzanian government to build a major commercial highway through
Serengeti National ParkThe Tanzanian President has vowed to go ahead with controversial plans to construct a major
road ...
24/4/2009
WE AWAKE IN OUR TENTS in the moonlight to what sounds like a dance troupe in wooden clogs practicing on rock under stunted juniper trees. It's a half-dozen Carmen mountain white-tailed deer, scraping at the ground with bootlike hooves, bending ...
14/4/2005
PINEDALE, WYO. – On a windswept butte in the upper Green River valley,
biologist Steve Belinda watches a herd of pronghorn antelope as a line of red
Halliburton trucks rumble down a dusty
road below.
In front of him is an ...
9/11/2004
THE MEETINGS TOOK PLACE in secluded locations, usually under the cover of
darkness. A small group gathered, so no information could leak through the
tightly closed doors. Stacks of classified documents piled the desks and floors,
and ...
1/9/2004
George Bush's war on terror may have made the world a more dangerous place.
But it is his atrocious record on the environment that poses the greatest
threat, says Graydon Carter, in the second exclusive extract from his new ...