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When Good Conservation Becomes Good Economics : Kenya's Vanishing Herds / Richard Damania.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Damania, Richard.
- Series:
- Other papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Other papers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservation.
- Environment.
- Environmental Protection.
- Global Environment Facility.
- Roads.
- Roads and Highways.
- Rural Poverty.
- Tourism and Ecotourism.
- Transport.
- Local Subjects:
- Conservation.
- Environment.
- Environmental Protection.
- Global Environment Facility.
- Roads.
- Roads and Highways.
- Rural Poverty.
- Tourism and Ecotourism.
- Transport.
- Other Title:
- When Good Conservation Becomes Good Economics
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- It is no exaggeration to state that Kenya's wildlife has done much to shape the image and development fortunes of the country. Today tourism is among Kenya's top sources of foreign exchange, dominates the service sector, and contributes significantly to employment, especially in rural areas where economic opportunities are limited. The typical wild herds that once roamed freely across the borders of Kenya and Tanzania have shrunk dramatically in numbers and vanished completely from much of the North. Perhaps most troubling is that recent monitoring of wildlife populations suggests that long-term declines of many of the charismatic species that attract tourists like lions, elephants, giraffes, impalas, and others are international tourist arrives on a package tour that may include a safari, a visit to the beach, or both. It is safari tourism, however, that generates the most employment and economic activity across the country occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas. The typical international tourist arrives on a package tour that may include a safari, a visit to the beach, or both. It is safari tourism, however, that generates the most employment and economic activity across the country. But the wildlife that has lured travelers to Kenya by the planeload is in dramatic decline. In the past three decades, the country has lost more than half of its wildlife. This report identifies with greater precision the drivers of land conversion from natural habitats to other uses, and examines the extent to which land conversion leads to the extirpation of wildlife and the loss of tourism incomes.
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