The “Break it Down” Blog

Environmental graffiti reports on not only a horrific but confusing event that just occurred last week.

10,000 wildebeest, in their normal yearly 2k mile trek from the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania to the lush Kenyan vegetation in the north, it seems the wildebeest, in a truly “lemmings” moment, simply piled, one after another, into one of the deepest sections if the river, with inescapable embankments on either side, literally funneling all 10k of them directly into the river, only to be drowned and swept away.

While the horror of having 1% of the world’s population of wildebeest suddenly drown in a matter of (minutes/hours?), there is a new horror forming for the people that rely on that clean water to live and exist. As those 10k wildebeest rot and carcases float down river, the water in that lake will become all but completely unusable for god only knows how long.

The scavengers that live in the lake will have plenty to eat, and god only knows what that shift in abundant food source may do to the lake’s natural environement (e.g. introduce more scavengers, which introduces more predators, etc. etc.)

No matter how you slide it, the balance of life around this area has suddenly been shifted and no one knows how things will look for months to come.