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Press Release on ILRI Study of Widespread and Substantial Declines in Wildlife in Kenya’s Masai Mara

 

Press Release:              English: PDF (30KB) | HTML
German: PDF (32KB) | HTML
French: PDF (32KB) | HTML

ILRI and its partners are working to expand the use and potential of their collaborative and community-based research for pastoral lands, livelihoods and wildlife. Here are links to a few examples:

·         Reto-o-Reto

·         Maasai Mara Count

Background Materials

·         FILM:
 Counting in a disappearing land’- The story of the research project that aims to establish links between people, livestock and wildlife in the Kenyan Masai Mara.

·         Land-Use Economics in the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem Abstract
PDF (16KB)

·         Reto-o-Reto policy brief PDF (17KB)

·         Figures for Nairobi National Park showing declines in populations- impala JPEG, warthog JPEG, waterbuck JPEG, wildebeest JPEG, and wildlife JPEG.

·         Figures for the Mara Reserve showing declines in population: kongoni (ground JPEG ), topi (ground JPEG aerial JPEG), warthog (ground JPEG aerial JPEG), buffalo (aerial JPEG), and giraffe (aerial JPEG).

·         Trends in human population size in the Mara area of Kenya JPEG .

 

Zebra at the edge Kitengela neighbouring the Nairobi National Park

Maasai herdsman with cattle

Maasai elder with his livestock

Maasai

Giraffes in the Mara

Waterbuck

 

Kongoni

Giraffe