Spatial variation in the willingness to accept payment for conservation of a migratory wildlife corridor in the Athi-‐Kaputiei Plains, Kenya.
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Joyce M. de Leeuw, Mohammed Said, Shem Kifugo, Joseph O. Ogutu, Philip M. Osano, Jan de Leeuw. (30/6/2014). Spatial variation in the willingness to accept payment for conservation of a migratory wildlife corridor in the Athi-‐Kaputiei Plains, Kenya. Ecosystem Services, 8, pp. 16-24.
Abstract
Payments
for
ecosystem
services
(PES)
are
increasingly
being
used
as
a
tool
to
promote
sustainable
ecosystem
services.
The
success
of
PES
depends
on
the
willingness
of
target
landowners
to
accept
the
payments.
In
particular,
to
be
effective
in
promoting
the
conservation
of
wide-‐ranging
migratory
wildlife,
the
potential
recipients
of
PES
must
be
willing
to
accept
the
payments
for
ecosystem
services
along
the
entire
migratory
corridor
to
enable
wildlife
movements.
This
may
be
difficult
and
expensive
to
achieve
where
costs
of
providing
the
service
vary
along
the
corridor.
This
paper
investigates
spatial
variation
in
willingness
to
accept
payments
(WTA)
made
by
a
Wildlife
Conservation
Lease
Program
in
the
Kitengela
and
Athi
Kaputiei
plains
of
Kenya.
The
program,
designed
as
an
incentive
to
keep
land
open
for
wildlife
and
livestock,
currently
(2012)
offers
land
owners
a
flat
fee
of
10
US$
per
ha
per
year,
irrespective
of
location.
We
present
a
model
relating
WTA
to
distances
to
road
infrastructure,
towns
and
rivers,
as
well
as
to
annual
precipitation
and
slope.
The
model
was
implemented
in
GIS
to
display
the
spatial
variation
in
the
willingness
of
landowners
to
accept
payments
from
the
Wildlife
Conservation
Lease
Program.
The
results
reveal
significant
spatial
variation
in
the
willingness
to
accept
payments
for
availing
land
for
conservation,
with
higher
willingness
to
accept
payments
concentrated
away
from
roads
and
also
in
the
south-‐eastern
section
of
the
Kitengela
plains.
The
results
further
suggest
that
the
movements
of
wildlife
will
be
blocked
by
lands
currently
not
open
to
migration
due
to
low
WTA
in
the
proximity
of
towns
and
tarmacked
roads.
An
effective
strategy
to
keep
the
land
open
for
migratory
wildlife
should
take
the
significant
spatial
variation
in
the
willingness
to
2
accept
payment
for
land
lease
into
account,
and
it
is
suggested
to
consider
spatially
stratifying
the
lease
rates
to
reflect
the
underlying
variation
in
WTA.
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Said, Mohammed https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8127-6399
Ogutu, Joseph O. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7379-0387
de Leeuw, Jan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2005-4351
Ogutu, Joseph O. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7379-0387
de Leeuw, Jan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2005-4351