Conservation of Dryland Biodiversity by Mobile Indigenous People: The Case of the Gabbra of Northern Kenya
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| Author(s) | Ganya, F.C. Haro, G.O. Borrini-Feyerabend, G. |
| Date | November 2004 |
| Reference type | Journal Article |
| Source name | Policy Matters |
| Journal | Vol 13 |
| Pages | pp. 61-71 |
| Publisher | IUCN, Gland |
Summary
The Gabbra are a mobile indigenous people of northern Kenya. Their livelihood strategy, through which they survived for centuries in one of the harshest environments on earth, managed to conserve biodiversity through a complex and sophisticated natural resource management system that includes the raising of mixed livestock species; the practice of transhumance (mobility); the declaration and respect of “range reserves”; the declaration and respect of use rules for plant species with specific economic and cultural values; and a variety of rules and practices aiming at water conservation and at the protection of water point environments. This paper discusses these practises and their biodiversity conservation results. A number of phenomena that place these practices in jeopardy are mentioned in the paper, together with recommendations about recognising, respecting and strengthening, rather than diminishing, a management system that beautifully stood the test of time.
Themes
Community Conservation
Case study
Geographic coverage
Kenya
Available from
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Publications/newsletter/PM13-Section1-part1.pdf