A recent court ruling clearing the way for a legal challenge to Tanzania's delayed plans for a 53-kilometer road across the world-famous Serengeti National Park has endangered the proposed project's construction.
The regional East Africa Court of Justice (EACJ) ruled, in August, that because the Serengeti National Park is located within both Tanzania and Kenya, the court has the jurisdiction to hear the complaint by the Africa Network for Animal Welfare, which originally filed the suit in December 2010. In traversing the park, the proposed stretch of road, designed to link eastern and western Tanzania, would cross migration routes of some two million wildebeests. The 53-km-long section would be part of a $480-million, 480-km road project.