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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:
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Reto-o-Reto
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Maasai Mara
Count
Background Materials
- Scientific
paper: Dynamics of
Mara-Serengeti ungulates in relation to land-use changes: PDF
(1 MB)
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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.
- Biographies: for spokespeople: Seré, Ogutu, Reid, Nkedianye, de Leeuw PDF
(32 KB) | HTML
- Map: Mara-Serengeti Map PDF
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Land-Use Economics in
the Mara Area of the Serengeti Ecosystem Abstract
PDF
(16KB)
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Reto-o-Reto
policy brief PDF (17KB)
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Figures for Nairobi National Park showing
declines in populations- impala JPEG, warthog JPEG, waterbuck JPEG,
wildebeest JPEG, and wildlife JPEG.
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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).
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Trends
in human population size in the Mara area of Kenya JPEG .
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Zebra
at the edge Kitengela neighbouring the Nairobi National Park |
Maasai herdsman with cattle
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Maasai elder with
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Maasai
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Giraffes in the Mara
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Waterbuck |
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Kongoni
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Giraffe
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