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Mau Forest O verview. What is the Mau forest?. Largest remaining block of montane forest in Eastern Africa—an area > 400,000 ha. 21 Forests, 1 of which (Maasai Mau) is managed by local government (Narok County Council) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Mau Forest Overview
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What is the Mau forest?
• Largest remaining block of montane forest in Eastern Africa—an area
> 400,000 ha. • 21 Forests, 1 of which (Maasai Mau) is
managed by local government (Narok County Council)
• One of 5 ‘water towers’ of Kenya; covers upper catchments of the Nzoia, Yala, Nyando, Sondu, Mara and Ewaso Ng’iro riversE. Africa lakes and wetlands; i.e., Victoria, Baringo, Natron, Turkana, Nakuru and Naivasha
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Importance of the Mau• The Mau complex nourishes
Kenya’s two largest foreign exchange earners—tea and tourism—in addition to many smallholder livelihoods (cattle, crops, forest products)
• A significant portion of Kenya’s—as well as Tanzania’s—key wildlife populations depend on the Mau complex for water
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Biodiversity values• Contribution to priority wildlife
conservation areas• Freshwater biodiversity• Indigenous forest• Important Bird Areas (#5)• Farms & agrobiodiversity
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LTPR dynamics• Reserve forests
(government owned)• Maasai group ranches
increasingly fragmented • Ogiek territory• Titled land
– Legitimate– Non-legitimate– ???
• Refugee camps
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LTPR dynamicsIndigenous people
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Direct conflict drivers
• Excisions• Removals
• Unsustainable and inequitable forest management
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Underlying dynamics: demand for land and water
• Population pressure and immigration
• Uncontrolled water use
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Underlying dynamics: power struggles and patronage• Corruption and ethnically-
manipulated land concessions combined with drought led to violence and population displacement
• Lack of opportunity for youth• Proliferation of management
units, no coherence; struggling over jurisdiction and benefit
• Marginalization and “developmental distance”
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PROMARA interventions
• Community center• Information and legal advice on
land rights targeted at vulnerable populations
• Alternatives to land alienation and evictions
• Integrated governance and co-management of natural resources providing livelihood and ecosystem service benefits