Then it moves down another line where the Southern Bypass runs by the inner fringes of the park. “Now there is also the Inland Container Depot (ICD) access road line still going through the park,” he continues. Nairobi National Park is quietly seeing its life snuffed out as these infrastructural developments human settlements gradually block wildlife dispersal corridors and eat up their habitat, acre after acre. We might think the park is fine right now but definitely with time the park might succumb to the pressures. “We had always suspected that overflow from the sewage systems was finding its way here and estates were discharging sewage into the park.

Source: Daily Nation February 16, 2019 02:59 UTC