A new high-speed railway will be allowed to cut through Nairobi National Park — as long as part of the line is on stilts, to let wild animals pass underneath.
Three sections of the railway, which is being built to replace the colonial-era Lunatic Line, will be run over viaducts between 6 metres and 20 metres off the ground, the Kenya Wildlife Service said.
“It’s not a good solution, but it’s the best solution we can find in 2015, in the circumstances in which we find ourselves,” said Richard Leakey, the veteran conservationist who founded the wildlife service in 1990 and was reappointed chairman this year.
Jeremiah Kianga, chairman of Kenya Railways, said the viaducts were proof that conservation and development did not need to