Trade‐Offs of Conservation Fencing in Western Serengeti: Enhancing Agricultural Security While Navigating Unintended Consequences on Land‐Use Dynamics
Michael Honorati Kimaro, Milenka Ishasha Sloots, Kristen Denninger Snyder, Noel Latiaeli Mbise, Victor Alexander Kakengi, Walter Di Nicola, Han Olff · 2026
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Description
Kimaro and co-authors test what a fence around a game reserve does to the farms beside it. In the western Serengeti, they compare land next to the fenced Ikorongo reserve with land next to the unfenced national park, using satellite images, ground surveys, and interviews before and after fencing.
Farmers praise the fence: elephants raid crops less at night, and young men shift from risky poaching toward farming and small trade. But grazing land near the fence turns into cropland, pushing herders toward the unfenced side, and access to grass, thatch, and water inside the reserve is cut off. The authors conclude that fencing helps farmers and wildlife along hard borders, as long as planners reckon with the spillover it creates.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michael Honorati Kimaro, Milenka Ishasha Sloots, Kristen Denninger Snyder, Noel Latiaeli Mbise, Victor Alexander Kakengi, Walter Di Nicola, Han Olff |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |