IPSI Case Study Summary Sheet
Basic Information
Title of case study (should be concise and within approximately 25 words)
Conservation for tourism in Kenyan rangelands: a new threat to pastoral community livelihoods
Submitting IPSI member organization(s)Conservation Solutions Afrika
Other contributing organization(s) (IPSI members and/or non-members)

Author(s) and affiliation(s)Mordecai O. Ogada (Conservation Solutions Afrika)
Format of case study
Manuscript

Language

English(manuscript or audiovisual)

Keywords (3-5 key concepts included in the case study)
Kenya, Conservation, Tourism, Wildlife, Pastoral
Date of submission (or update, if this is an update of an existing

25 August 2016case study)

Web link (of the case study orlead organization if available formore information)

https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:5769/SEPLS_in_Africa_FINAL_lowres_web.pdf

Geographical Information
Country (where site(s) or activities described in the case study are located – can be multiple, or even “global”)
Kenya
Location(s) (within the country or countries – leave blank if specific location(s) cannot be identified)Longitude/latitude or Google Maps link (if location is identified)
https://www.google.com/maps/@0.1540839,35.6492414,7z?hl=en
Ecosystem(s) (please place an “x” in all appropriate boxes)
ForestGrasslandx
Agriculturalx
In-land water
CoastalDryland
Mountain
Urban/peri-urban
Other (Please specify)
Socioeconomic and environmental characteristics of the area (within 50 words)
The sites where the majority of these conservancies are located are mainly wildlife habitats in the rangelandsof northern and southern Kenya, where the local community are Maa-speaking pastoralists. The geographicaland temporal niches exploited by the human and wildlife communities in these areas are maintained by theconnectivity of habitats and freedom of human, livestock, and wildlife movement between them.
Description of human-nature interactions in the area (land-use, traditional resource management practices etc. – within 50words)

The main benefits obtained by pastoralists from their environment are pasture and water for the livestock.
They also obtain wood for fuel and construction of livestock corrals and houses. These resources are sharedwith the wildlife populations. These lands are community-owned and commonly grazed.

Contents
Status (“ongoing” or “completed”)
Completed
Period (MM/YY to MM/YY)
2016
Rationale (why activities or policies described, or information shared in the case study are needed – within 50 words)
The creation of social, mechanical, and economic barriers to the free movement that has maintained thebiodiversity in these socioecological production landscapes is serious threat to their existence and thediversity they support. The disruption of human societies that have learned to coexist with wildlife will
ultimately damage the natural and human environment, an effect that will be felt far beyond the landscapesin question.
Objectives (goals of activities or policies described, or of producing the case study – within 50 words)
The “community-owned” wildlife conservancy model was an idea that emerged from the central theme,“benefits beyond boundaries,” of the 2003 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Parks
Congress held in Durban, South Africa. This study explores how this model and the various interests
embedded in it threaten the social and ecological integrity that conserved the wildlife and ecosystems forgenerations.
Activities and/or practices employed (within 50 words)
Academic study, literature review, field observation.

Results (within 50 words)
The prevailing thinking that currently informs the implementation of conservation projects in Kenya has its
origins in the laws and regulations that were put in place by the colonial government to manage wildlife andexclude local people from wildlife areas (but now enforced by non-state actors). This paradigm is largely
responsible for the difficulties currently faced in the effective and sustainable management of wildlife andother natural resources in Kenya.
Lessons learned (factors in success or failure, challenges and opportunities – within 40 words)
A major challenge that the proponents of the conservancy model have failed to meet in Kenya is the inclusionof local communities as intellectual participants in conservation; The tourism industry has continued to exert
a strong influence over conservation practice in Kenya, as the “primary users” of wildlife populations;Pastoralism existed in the Kenyan rangelands for several centuries before the introduction of structuredconservation.
Key messages (within 40 words)
It is important that movements like the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) identify thereasons for the dominance of tourism interests in the conservation sector in Africa, and reintroduce support
for the existing livelihoods that have maintained these ecosystems for centuries.
Relationship to other IPSI activities (if the case study is related to any other IPSI collaborative activities, case studies, etc.)
This case study originally appeared in the publication “Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapesin Africa”.
Funding (any relevant information about funding of activities or projects described in the case study)

Contributions to Global Agendas
CBD Aichi Biodiversity Targets (https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/)
The table below shows based on the self-evaluation by author(s).  and  indicates the “direct” or “indirect” contributions to theCBD’s Aichi Biodiversity Targets respectively to which the work described in this case study contributes to.

Strategic Goal AStrategic Goal BStrategic Goal C

Strategic Goal D

Strategic Goal EUN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs)
The table below shows based on the self-evaluation by author(s).  and  indicates the “direct” or “indirect” contributions to theSDGs respectively to which the work described in this case study contributes to.
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