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Traditionally protected forests´ role within transforming natural resource management regimes in Taita Hills, Kenya
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This thesis provides an outlook on the traditionally protected forests and sites in Taita hills, Kenya. it examines their ecological characteristics and how they relate to social dynamics, explores their ideological aspects, and analyzes them as sites for conservation of cultural and biological diversity. These areas are important components of a larger complex socio-ecological system, which has symbolical status and sacred and mystical elements within it. in turn, this contributes to the connectivity of indigenous remnant forests in the agroforestry dominated landscape. sacredness, however, enhances but, it does not equal conservation. Various social, political and economic arrangements further affect the integrity of the forests, control of witchcraft being one of them. The Taita people have a rich traditional ecological knowledge base which they apply to natural resource management, health care and social welfare.
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