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Protecting Kenya's Wildlife

inhabited. The primary effort to protect existing forest resources came through the natural regeneration of cutover areas or replacement of felled stock with more valuable indigenous species until 1925. In 1926 the emphasis shifted to the development of commercial plantations of faster-growing exotic pines and cypresses adaptable to the Kenya region. by 1981 these softwood exotics covered an area of 1,500 square kilometers and were the source of most sawn timber, construction materials, plywood, and pulp for paper. Plantation development was aided by external financing.

Kenya contains in great numbers and variety various species of wildlife, and wild animals have long been considered of value to the economy as a major tourist attraction. They have generated a significant share of tourism's foreign exchange earnings. The herds remained of an impressive size in the early 1980s, though not as large as they had been in the early 1900s. Herbivores such as elephants, buffalo, antelope, giraffe, zebras, and others formed the majority of the wildlife and stood at a population of about 3 million. Most were found in the many national parks and game reserves. The decline in numbers since the beginning of the century can be attributed to the increase in human population and the accompanying expansion of settlements and cultivation moving onto the natural habitat or cutting off these animals from their regular migratory routes. There was also a growing population of domestic livestock that competed for water and forage. Most of the predators in the heavily populated regions were killed or driven away, however, so that the lion was found only rarely in much of western Kenya and the heavily populated portions of the Kenya Highlands. Another cause was early legal and then illicit killing of animals. During World War I and then World War II, game animals were a major source of food for the labor force, for troops, and for prisoners of ...

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