Kenya Agricultural Research Institute - Trypanosomiasis Research Center, Kikuyu, KE
Abstract
KARI-TRC technical report submitted to ECAPAPA-ASARECAIn the Transmara District, residents claimed that elephants, baboons, leopards, hippos, lions, hyenas, buffaloes, wild pigs and zebras, in that order, were the most destructive and dreaded wild animals in the study area. Most of these species of wildlife inhabit the same areas as agro-pastoralists who live in mixed forestlands bordering nature reserves. 77% of survey respondents reported that some livestock (cattle, sheep, goats) had been killed by wild animals within a period of one year. A wide range of questions were posed to selected respondents regarding Wildlife Compensation schemes. Most had no idea what the schemes were for, or felt that politicians were the beneficiaries
