The government has affirmed her commitment to engender legislative reforms intended to deal with the growing human-wildlife conflict and environmental degradation.
Principal Secretary, State Department for Wildlife and Tourism, Ms Silvia Museiya said the proposed Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2025 was a crucial step towards restoring the balance between conservation efforts and community welfare adding that the current legislation was outdated and inadequate in protecting vulnerable communities living near wildlife habitats.
Ms Museiya said the proposed Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2025 seeks to modernize how the nation governs, conserves, utilizes, and shares benefits from wildlife resources for the good of all Kenyans.
The PS lamented that despite wildlife conservation being a key pillar of Kenya's economy supporting the tourism sector among other forms of wildlife economy, the sector faces many challenges including human-wildlife conflicts, climate change and associated impacts, habitat loss, outdated legislation and inequitable benefit sharing mechanisms.
