Livestock and Wildlife: Can Both Co-exist in the Rangelands?

Excerpt from Conference Program:
"Beyond the park boundary [Amboseli], where elephants wandered back and forth and seldom settled for fear of people, diversity reached its peak.......

"Amboseli's rich patchwork of habitat arose from elephants roaming far and wide on their migrations, never settling in the park because of the presence of Maasai, never settling outside because of lack of permanent.

"I was in my element sizing up the implications of the experimental plot around the house, loving the ideas, the observations, the weird and wonderful connections, and the far-reaching implications -- all coming together in a headlong rush. These deductions led to a new round of ecological surveys and experiments, designed to tease out the factors creating and maintaining Amboseli's biological diversity. The studies culminated in a provocative idea -- to marry the adverse impact of too many elephants and too many livestock to mutual advantage, and in the process re-create Amboseli's lost diversity."