Discussion and conclusion
Kenya's conservation and tourism programmes have
received international acclaim. 13 Also an increasing
number of tourists, especially from Europe and
North America, are attracted to Kenya to participate
in nature-based tourism. However, from the
time of colonial rule the underlying socioeconomic
trend of wildlife conservation and tourism development
has been the taking away of wildlife resource
user rights from the rural peasants. With the establishment
of state-protected nature parks, many and
most often powerful social and economic forces
influencing nature conservation and use of wildlife
resources came to be controlled by the state, conservation
organizations and tourism groups. In most
cases, subsistence hunting by rural peasants came to
be seen as poaching.