Conservation on community lands: the importance of equitable revenue sharing

摘要: Attempts to establish local support for wildlife and conservation through the sharing of revenues empowerment communities manage their have proliferated over past two decades. Data from neighbouring Maasai group ranches in dispersal area Amboseli Tsavo National Parks (Kenya) indicated one ranch generated considerable a tourist operation community trust while other received no direct benefits wildlife. The overall attitude on with was significantly more positive, but attitudes within varied significantly, depending both costs perception distribution revenues. Ordinal logistic regression analyses showed that it not amount revenue or scale which determined people's attitudes, simply presence absence benefits. importance addressing inequitable is emphasized.