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Kitengela transforming: Will pastoralists and wildlife survive?

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Title Kitengela transforming: Will pastoralists and wildlife survive?
 
Creator Reto-o-Reto Project
 
Description The semi-arid Kitengela plains south of Nairobi National Park (NNP) have been the longtime
home of the Kaputiei Maasai community. Together with NNP these plains form the
Athi-Kaputiei ecosystem. The plains host rich populations of wildlife and are vital to the
health of NNP, since 70 to 80 percent of the Park’s animals roam outside it’s boundaries
at any one time.
But the rangeland that once seemed endless is now splintering. Close to the ever
expanding Nairobi, the Kitengela plains are experiencing a population boom, rising land
prices and speculation, commercial and subsistence farming, and unregulated
urbanisation. Maasai who once tended large cattle herds on communal land now often
have a few animals on individual plots, and are selling off their own land for the cash to
survive. Wildlife populations have dropped by more than 70 percent over 25 years.
If present trends continue, the future may find - the Maasai dispossessed, a mere remnant
of wildlife remaining in Nairobi National Park, severe water scarcity, and large areas of
degraded land. Urgent planning and action involving all stakeholders is the best hope for
giving Kitengela’s human, livestock and wildlife residents a healthy future.
 
Date 2010-08-16T08:10:49Z
2010-08-16T08:10:49Z
2007
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Reto-o-Reto Project. 2007. Kitengela transforming: Will pastoralists and wildlife survive? Reto-O-Reto Policy Brief 2. Nairobi (Kenya): ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/2269
 
Language en
 
Relation Reto-o-Reto Policy Brief;2
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Reto-o-Reto Project