Alarm over barriers to wildlife migration

Migrating wildebeest in mid-air leaping into the dangerous Mara River with dusty dramatic background. [Courtesy]

A report on wildlife migratory corridors in Kenya has laid bare the havoc infrastructural development has caused along the routes. Conservationists have also raised the alarm over the situation they say has extended from Athi-River, all the way to Tarangire in Tanzania, leaving a trail of destruction of the ecosystem.

This is also affecting the annual spectacle of wildlife migration in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem that brings together millions of wildebeests crossing the crocodile-invested Mara River alongside hundreds of zebras, gazelles and hartebeests.