African wildlife policy: protecting wildlife herbivores on private game ranches

In large Darts of Africa, wildlife herbivores spill over onto private lands , competing with domestic livestock for forage resources. To encourage priv ate landowners to take into account the externality benefits of wildlife, g ame cropping is increasingly considered as an important component of conser vation policies. In this paper, we employ a bioeconomic model of a private game ranch to examine five potential government policies concerning wildlif e conservation, ranging from (strict) preservation to uncontrolled exploita tion. 'Intermediate' policies appear to contribute most to wildlife conserv ation, with costs to landowners of such policies being modest. The model ou tcomes support recent wildlife policy shifts in Kenya.