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ISSN : 2456-8643

Title:
ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BY WILDLIFE MANAGERS AND COMMUNITIES IN MERU CONSERVATION AREA, KENYA

Authors:
Kiria M.Edwin and Magana Adiel

Abstract:
The effects of climate change poses a challenge to the management systems in the protected areas, affects wildlife resources and the levels of community benefits. The rates of these changes in most protected areas alter their composition resulting to different habitats and species assemblages. Protected area managers and the communities in Meru Conservation Area have to come to the terms that climate change is an emerging threat and a phenomenon that requires inclusion in the daily planning and decision making for the protected areas. The most effective approach however is to develop adaptation strategies that will cope with the climate change for prosperity of protected areas

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