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 Hi,
My name is Jaspa and, for those of you who don’t yet know, I was born in the Serengeti in Tanzania, Africa.
This is my website. It will tell you a little bit about myself, my amazing Ses friends and Jaspa’s Journey - the novels Rich Meyrick is writing about us and our adventures. I hope you enjoy it... And the books.
The first book in the series is called Jaspa’s Journey: The Great Migration. It is set against the real-life backdrop of a desperate, danger-fraught, 800 kilometre (500 mile) struggle for survival undertaken every year by two million animals on the vast Serengeti Plain - the real Great Migration.
Sadly, all is not well in my Serengeti homeland. The amazing spectacle of the Great Migration as described in Jaspa’s Journey is under threat, endangered by something as simple as a single road.
 The Tanzanian government is planning to construct a highway right through the heart of the Serengeti National Park. This road will represent a new and disastrous barrier to the nomadic animals of the Great Migration, and will likely mean the end of this Wonder of the Natural World.
In a few short years, the Great Migration could be a thing of the past, following the limitless buffalo herds of the American Wild West, the dinosaurs and the dodo into the history books.
One of the best things about Jaspa’s Journey: The Great Migration is that virtually all of the incredible things described in the book really exist. In fact, if you’re lucky enough, you could follow in my footsteps and see all of the wondrous places and animals for yourself, just as they appear in the story.
However, if the currently proposed route for the Serengeti Highway goes ahead, this won’t be true for much longer. I for one don’t want that to happen.
To learn more about the Serengeti Highway and the 1st International Serengeti Day on March 19th, 2011, click the link below.
Thanks!
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