From Global Travel Industry News

Environmentalists in particular but basically a broad cross section of the East African business community and civil society promptly condemned Tanzania when news emerged that the country refused to sign the East African Community’s environmental and natural resource management protocol. The move was seen to weasel out of handing the community a say in environmental issues, particularly along trans-boundary ecosystems like the Masai Mara – Serengeti protected areas, where Tanzania seems hell bent to construct a highway across the most sensitive parts of the migration routes of the great herds.

A recently launched appeal against a ruling by the East African Court of Justice, preventing Tanzania from constructing a highway, already at the time made observers conclude that worse was yet to come, and the refusal to sign on to the protocol now affirms those fears as entirely correct.

The decision by Tanzania also puts in doubt the formal, coordinated cooperation over the much needed cleanup of Lake Victoria, which was to be dealt with under this very protocol too.

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