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Why Parks Can Benefit People (1 of 4)

Caption: Local herders in northern Kenya, share protected areas and scarce water with elephants during periods of drought. While over 60 percent of cattle in this primarily pastoralist region died during two recent droughts, herding communities on the borders of Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves fared far better as a result of their legal access to parklands. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 4, 2008, issue of Science , published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. George Wittemyer and colleagues at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. was titled "Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges."

Credit: Image courtesy of George Wittemyer

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