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Dar won’t open Serengeti-Mara border crossing
A tourist takes pictures of birds in Maasai Mara. Photo/FILE
Posted Monday, November 2 2009 at 00:00
On the Kenya side, there are over 40 properties (lodges and camps) around the Maasai Mara and nine lodges inside.
The reserve hosts many more tourists and tour vehicles.
In August this year, the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation raised concerns over increasing human activity in the Serengeti National Park as a result of more border crossing points.
Unesco said the danger emanates from Serengeti embracing mass tourism as practised in neighbouring Kenya.
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We Kenyans have virtually destroyed the fragile Masai Mara. We must realize that controls are necessary and the style of marketing that wants more and more tourists for the Mara is misplaced. For what purpose would Tanzania reopen Bologonja? This sounds more like a neighbour who always has a party in his house asking you to cut an entrance in the fence into your house - no way!
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