Protecting Kenya's Wildlife

Kenya has a lengthy history of attempting to protect certain resources. The forest resources of the nation are found principally in the Kenya Highlands, though small forested areas are found in the coastal area and in scattered ares of the country as well. Some 94 percent of these resources were in forest estates and plantations owned by the central government or by local county councils in 1983, though the latter were under the control of the Forest Department. The Forest Department estimated that the total area of these forests stood at 18,600 square kilometers, or 3.2 percent of the total land area of the country, but calculations based on satellite remote-sensing techniques put the figure at about 25 percent less than this, for 13,700 square kilometer

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e they often trample crops, eat grass intended for cattle, and kill or maim dozens of villagers each year. The current director of the Kenya Wildlife Service, ecologist David Western, and a number of Kenyans and various international development agencies agree that this situation should be maintained as it is. Many conservationists see this strategy as a way of reducing conflicts between people and wildlife rather than increasing them, and they also believe this is a key to wildlife survival. Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey was the former head of the service, and he was ousted last April. Western wants to give rural landowners and communities a direct stake in wildlife conservation, and he sees the way to do this in the strategy of providing park revenues and international donor funds to assist in establishing wildlife-based businesses, including hiking, canoeing, or horseback-riding safaris; selling meat and hides from game farms; or earning lucrative fees from trophy hunting on private land, a sport that has been banned since the late 1970s. At the present time, an estimated $436 million in tourist-related revenues flow into Kenya each year, and it is hoped that if landowners receive some share of this on the basis of w
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