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We are grateful to the Government of Kenya for giving us permission to undertake this research, and to the communities who hosted us for their participation in the work. Michael Thompson developed the surveys, trained interviewers and collected the great majority of quantitative data. Suzy Serneels planned and carried out the first rounds of cluster analysis and regression. Michael and Suzy wrote the first draft and moderated subsequent drafts. Pippa Trench carried out re-analysis for both cluster and regression analyses, and rewrote successive drafts. Dickson Ole Kaelo contributed preliminary field work, family portraits, some survey data, and provIDed a large amount of the historical context to the conservation divIDends section. The 1998– 2000 surveys were funded by DFID contracts R6828, R7638 and EU Contract ERBIC18*CT 960070. Numerous colleagues have helped with the development of these IDeas. We thank them all.
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Thompson, D.M., Serneels, S., Kaelo, D.O., Trench, P.C. (2009). Maasai Mara – Land Privatization and Wildlife Decline: Can Conservation Pay Its Way?. In: Homewood, K., Kristjanson, P., Trench, P.C. (eds) Staying Maasai?. Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87492-0_3
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