He eventually resigned to start his own organisation, once he realised the limitation of the existing conservation model. There was a big disconnect with the reality of public in understanding the value of wildlife conservation but conservation could not be left solely in the hands of the ‘experts’. It goes on an investigative discourse of Kenya’s conservation legacy, showing how the inherited conservation model was intertwined with colonial power structures. They question the unholy alliance of wildlife conservation NGOs and Western funding streams pushing the paradigm that states that resident local communities must earn money from wildlife as motivation for conservation. “The big problem with our conservation model is that it is alien, not inspired by traditional culture”.

Source: Standard Digital April 29, 2017 20:03 UTC