Session: OS-B3
Kenya’s ‘Conservation Revolution’: Lessons Learned from Community-based Conservancies in a Regional and Global Context
Since 2010, a major and rapid devolution of conservation to the local level has occurred in Kenya. This devolution was already taking place, but accelerated rapidly with the enactment of Kenya’s new constitution, which devolved significant power and resources to the county level throughout the country. In that time, the number of conservancies in the country has grown from 40 to over 200. Kenyans established twelve regional and one... [ view more ]
Since 2010, a major and rapid devolution of conservation to the local level has occurred in Kenya. This devolution was already taking place, but accelerated rapidly with the enactment of Kenya’s new constitution, which devolved significant power and resources to the county level throughout the country. In that time, the number of conservancies in the country has grown from 40 to over 200. Kenyans established twelve regional and one national organization to support individual conservancies throughout the country. This session will describe this revolution and its challenges and successes. The speakers will then put this rapid expansion of community-based conservation in a regional and global context. [ view less ]
Chair
Prof. Robin Reid (Center for Collaborative Conservation, Colorado State University), Prof. Kathleen Galvin (Colorado State University), Mr. Dickson Kaelo (Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association), Mr. Benson Leyian (Amboseli Ecosystem Trust), Mrs. Munira
Time
14:00 - 16:00 on
Monday, 11th of January 2016
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14:00
Dickson Kaelo (Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association)
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14:20
Benson Leyian (Amboseli Ecosystem Trust)
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14:40
Jeffrey Worden (Northern Rangelands Trust), Tom Lalampaa (Northern Rangelands Trust), Mike Harrison (Northern Rangelands Trust)
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15:00
Robin Reid (Colorado State University), Dickson Kaelo (Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association), Kathleen Galvin (Colorado State University)
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15:20
Munira Anyonge Bashir (The Nature Conservancy)
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15:40
Kathleen Galvin (Colorado State University), Tyler Beeton (Colorado State University), Matthew Luizza (Colorado State University), Robin Reid (Colorado State University)
