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Wildlife pathways were built to pave space for the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway line.

Part of the railway is elevated on viaducts, allowing wildlife to pass without risk of injury. The rest is elevated on embankments, and six underpasses have been constructed to allow wildlife to cross.

The engineers of the railway designed the wildlife paths to ease migration of wildlife in the areas.

There were earlier fears by environmental advocates that the new construction would greatly impact the wildlife population in national parks.

"The way the elephants are behaving today indicate they are at home and that the new pathways do not interfere with them at all," said Margaret Mwakima, then principal secretary of State Department of Natural Resources of Kenya.

"The conservation and sustainable management of wildlife and habitats are crucial to the country's long term economic growth and development," she added.

Xinhua, CGTN, Qiushi Journal contributed to this story.