The Impact of Big Game on Forest Policy in the Mount Kenya and North-East Aberdare Forest Reserves (O.D.C. 156)

Abstract

Brief details are given of the animals concerned, the ways in which they injure the forest and present methods of control. Ways in which big game benefit the forest are also considered. The only serious threat to the objects of Forest Policy is damage to forest produce and suggestions are made for the reduction of this injury whilst still retaining the beneficial effects of game in forests. Big game should be regarded not as a liability but as an additional forest resource in accordance with the concept of multiple land use.