Wildlife Migration Corridor That Inspired Movie 'Lion King' Would Be Destroyed By New Road
Do you want to make a difference in 2011, based on a truism that has never been contradicted in the history of humankind? Here's one: Roads kill nature. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once observed: "When roads supplant trails, the precious, unique values of God's wilderness disappear."
Roads may facilitate incursions of great numbers of people and the promise of expanded commerce but what they leave behind, invariably, is an emptying out of the very wild treasures they bifurcate. All around the world, countries are struggling to deal with the after-effects of roads that were either
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Written by Todd Wilkinson
Categorized As: News, Environment