Contraction and status of Maasai lands as wildlife dispersal areas and implications for wildlife conservation in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya

Wildlife: Destruction, Conservation and Biodiversity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 49-96

  Okello, Moses Makonjio ^a   Grasty, Katie ^a  

^a SFS Centre for Wildlife Management Studies   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Amboseli ecosystem; Contraction of corridors; Kenya; Wildlife dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951594698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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