By PAUL LETIWAMore by this AuthorA new report has questioned the current model of community-based wildlife conservation under the communal land tenure system in northern Kenya. The survey by the Indigenous Movement For Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation, showed that the loss of grazing land was a big challenge arising from community conservancies across Marsabit, Isiolo, Laikipia and Samburu counties. CAUSESThe report, which recommended that conservancies adopt the 2016 Community Land Act, also indicated that the wildlife protection model being used in the North was causing human-wildlife and community conflict, and corruption. “The respondents stated that these disputes began with the creation of Biliqo-Bulesa conservancy in Isiolo,” the report continued. Further inquiry revealed that in Laikipia County the complaint arose from the large numbers of wildlife using grazing areas in the community areas, rather than the core wildlife areas.

Source: Daily Nation June 24, 2017 04:41 UTC