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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRANCOIS AUSSEILL-Zebras frolic in the Serengeti national reserve on October 25, 2010. A proposed trade-route to cut right through the Serengeti, the annual stage for the internationally famous hartebeast migration to Kenya's Masai Mara, has environmentalists up-in-arms protesting that the proposed two-lane paved road on which work should begin in 2011linking Musoma on Lake Victoria (north) to Arusha (north) and crossing 50 km through northern Serengeti along the Kenyan border would according to Mike Rainy, a scientist based in Kenya for over 50 years, induced the risk of the eventual collapse of the Serengeti-Masai Mara ecosystem by creating increased carnage of by the road's users, introduction of animal diseases and ease of access and escape for poachers. "When it will happen, 75% of the system (migration) will shrink and eventually collapse. It could happen very quickly, between two and five years," he warns. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)