Fencing elephants: The hidden politics of wildlife fencing in Laikipia, Kenya

摘要: Conservation is a fundamentally spatial pursuit. Human–elephant conflict (HEC), in particular crop-raiding, significant and complex conservation problem wherever elephants people occupy the same space. Conservationists wildlife managers build electrified fences as technical solution to this problem. Fences provide means of controlling human–elephant interactions by creating place for cultivation. They are often planned designed based on ecology target species. Yet we show case study, behind their facade, highly political. This article presents process planning building 121 km West Laikipia Fence: created prevent from moving out large private government-owned ranches onto smallholder cultivated land west County. We seek how construction fence solve HEC led division, reinforcement communication territory ground was captured shaped different, sometimes conflicting, political interests.