News Headline
Africa's transport blueprint may be road to ruin for flora and fauna, study says
Source
Guardian (UK)
Publication Date
2015-12-08
Many new road and rail ‘‘development corridors’’ planned to crisscross Africa in the name of economic development could destroy the continent’s equatorial forests and savannahs, lead to many people invading protected areas and have only limited chances of increasing agricultural production, say scientists in a new study.