TASK FORCE ON HUMAN-WILDLIFE COMPENSATION SCHEMES: Product Pricing July

Human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) are a common occurrence around the world and specifically in Kenya where most wildlife are found outside protected areas. HWC occur when the needs of wildlife and humans overlap, leading to sharing and competition for limited resources. Among the main factors contributing to increased HWC include increase human, livestock, and wildlife populations, change in climate and land use, habitat degradation and fragmentation. Thus, communities that bear the brunt of HWC are less resilient to wildlife conservation and may result in retaliatory killings of wildlife. This threatens biodiversity conservation, affects revenue generation for the country and the inherent ecosystem services the Kenyan people derive from wildlife……read more