Mongabay on Nostr: Conventional conservation wisdom has held that cattle herds managed by Indigenous ...

Conventional conservation wisdom has held that cattle herds managed by Indigenous Maasai in East Africa compete with wildlife for grazing land and degrade protected areas like Kenya’s Maasai Mara and Tanzania’s Ngorongoro.

But a new research study shows that, in a small study patch of the Maasai Mara, cattle herds didn’t cause a decline in forage quantity or quality, nor did wildlife steer away from areas where cattle had grazed.

By Ashoka Mukpo
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/can-cattle-and-wildlife-co-exist-in-the-maasai-mara-a-controversial-study-says-yes/

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