Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife-tourism based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya

This paper examines the effects of wildlife tourism-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) on poverty, wealth inequality and the livelihoods of herders in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem in south-western Kenya. It uses the case of Olare Orok Conservancy PES programme in which pastoral landowners have...

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Main Authors: Osano, Philip M., Said, Mohammed Yahya, Leeuw, Jan de, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Kaelo, D., Schomers, S., Birner, Regina, Ogutu, J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34474

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