ArticleScientific reports2022
New land tenure fences are still cropping up in the Greater Mara.
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- Short-term study fails to capture negative impacts of livestock intensification on wildlife.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Predicting the impact of targeted fence removal on connectivity in a migratory ecosystem.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Rethinking livestock encroachment at a protected area boundary.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Land use drives differential resource selection by African elephants in the Greater Mara Ecosystem, Kenya.Movement ecology · 2024Article
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Expanding and intensifying anthropogenic land use is one of the greatest drivers of changes of biodiversity loss and political inequality worldwide. In the Greater Mara, Kenya, a trend of private land enclosure is currently happening, led by smallholders wishing to protect and uphold their land titles. Here we expand on previous work by Løvschal et al. quantifying the rapid, large-scale development of fencing infrastructure that began in 1985 but has increased by 170% from 2010 onwards. We provide fine-scale analysis of the spatial and temporal trends in fencing using high-resolution Sentinel-2 imagery. The formally unprotected regions have distinctly more fences than the rest of the Mara, one experiencing a 740% increase in fenced land in four years. Conservancies have an effect in stemming fencing but fences crop up within and along conservancy boundaries. We estimate the actual geographical coverage of the fences in the Mara to be 130,277 ha (19% of the total region) using an error margin of 8%, derived by calibrating our satellite mapping with ground-truth data. The study suggests the need for revising community-based eco-conservation efforts and pursuing a richer understanding of the socio-political and historical dynamics underlying this phenomenon.
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