Better Policy and Management Options
Better Policy and Management Options for Pastoral Lands: Assessing trade-offs between poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation
People, wildlife and livestock have intermingled in East African savannas for millennia. This intermingling has declined as conservation policy excluded people and livestock from parks, and growing human populations and expanding agriculture excluded wildlife and pastoral use. Thus, in many parts of the region, wildlife populations in the region have declined by nearly half, livestock populations have remained stagnant while human populations have grown and millions of pastoralists have no choice but to diversify their livelihoods beyond livestock.