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The Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem and Greater Maasailand: Building the Role of Local Leaders, Institutions, and Communities

The Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem and Greater Maasailand: Building the Role of Local Leaders, Institutions, and Communities

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December 2014
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handle:10568/68151
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Much of the effort to include communities in conservation of large

landscapes has been driven by interests outside the savannas, either by national

governments, NGOs, or foreign conservationists (Neumann 2002,

Brockington et al. 2008). Once included in conservation planning only as

an afterthought, local communities are now major stakeholders. However,

initiatives driven, led, and managed by local leaders, communities, and institutions

to meet the needs of both wildlife and people remain rare. The

science of community- based conservation rarely answers the questions

posed by local communities, integrates local knowledge, or builds the capacity

of communities to do their own research. This chapter is the story

of our efforts to turn community- based conservation around so that it is

driven, led, and managed by local interests, needs, and people in Kenya’s

northern Serengeti- Mara ecosystem, or the Mara.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Kaelo D
Nkedianye DK
Said MY
Gambill I
Galvin, K.A.
Reid, R.S.
Kristjanson, Patti

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