Prof David Hopcraft

Swara Plains Conservancy, Kenya

Game ranching activities in Kenya with an emphasis on community game ranching and/or how communities benefit from game ranching

Professor David Hopcraft, a conservationist, began experiments on Swara Plains with the support of Cornell University and the National Science Foundation, to understand the relationship between wildlife and healthy rangelands. Dedicated to preserving 20,000 undeveloped acres, David pioneered an incentive-based conservation, leading to its widespread use in Kenya.