Tanzania: Thirsty Serengeti Wildlife to Get New Water Hole - Lake Victoria

Dar es Salaam — After decades of struggling to help the wildlife of Serengeti National Park cope with Tanzania's increasingly intense droughts, the government is implementing a controversial plan to use Lake Victoria as an alternative water source for the animals.

The project - which aims to ensure the survival of millions of animals including the wildebeests and zebras that take part in the famous Great Migration every year - involves reviving a 36-square-kilometre wildlife corridor by extending the border of the park to Lake Victoria's Gulf of Speke.

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