Under the searing sun of the Tsavo East National Park, a herd of elephants as red as the soil around them browse near the newly constructed standard gauge railway cutting across the 13,747 square kilometre park.
This section of the railway, near the park's Manyani Gate, is on a steep embankment to attain a high gradient for the trains. A 70-metre-wide and five-metre-high underpass in the embankment allows elephants to move across from the adjoining 9,065 square kilometre Tsavo West National Park.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article