Effect of cropping policy on landowner reactions towards wildlife: a case of Naivasha area, Kenya

Stephen Mailu (sshierom@hotmail.com), Bernard Kuloba, Eric Ruto and Wilfred Nyangena

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Abstract: Wildlife policy in Kenya has in most part been protectionist with little incentives to private landowners, who host wildlife in their farms to participate in their conservation. However, in recognition of the role of incentives in conservation, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) piloted a wildlife utilization policy in which organized landowners were allowed a cropping quota based on the number of wildlife present within their land. This study investigates the impact of such policy on human-wildlife conflicts using data compiled from a list of complaints lodged at the KWS warden’s office from farms around Lake Naivasha. Using this data, Poisson and negative binomial regression models are employed to estimate the effect of the wildlife cropping and policy and other factors on the frequency of wildlife damage incidences reported at the KWS offices. Results indicate that the policy may not have worked as intended since rather than reducing the number of conflict reports, it had an unexpected effect of increasing problem reports to KWS. The results are discussed and some recommendations provided.

Keywords: Wildlife; Cropping; Count data regression; Buffalo; Landowners (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 C16 C34 D62 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01-31
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