Abstract
To address human–wildlife conflicts and the related
threat of extinction of the African lion, in 2003, the
Maasailand Preservation Trust established a fund at
the Mbirikani Group Ranch in southern Kenya to
provide monetary compensation for livestock killed
by wildlife. In this paper, the policy arrangement
approach (PAA) is used to analyse this arrangement as
a form of payment for environmental services (PES).
Although there has been a considerable reduction in
the number of lions killed, the analysis reveals several
limitations of this arrangement, including three main
side effects, namely it has initiated a process that is
difficult to sustain or reverse, created a new cycle of
dependence and widened the gap between different
groups in the community. In conclusion, the drawbacks
of this type of compensation fund must be addressed
by combining such arrangements with other public and
private policies and initiatives. Careful examination
and comparison of different kinds of experiments
with PES-like arrangements are required to further
build understanding of the potential and different
contributions of public and private, market-based
initiatives in biodiversity governance.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 363-372 |
Journal | Environmental Conservation |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Amboseli
- compensation
- human-wildlife conflict
- Kenya
- lion conservation
- payments for environmental services
- policy arrangement approach