Mobility and livestock mortality in communally used pastoral areas: the impact of the 2005-2006 drought on livestock mortality in Maasailand

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Table 5 Comparison of livestock mortality rates reported in this study with those reported for earlier droughts

Area	Cattle(%)	Shoats(%)	Combined TLU (%)	Drought year	Author (s)
Amboseli	32	26	30	2005	This study
Kitengela	45	44.5	43		This study
Maasai Mara	29	21	26		This study
Simanjiro	13	17	14		This study
Kajiado District	50	20	-	2000	UNEP and GoK
Kaputiei South	8-29	50	-	1976	(Bekure 1991)
Kaputiei North and Central	70-75	36	-	1976	(Njoka 1979)
Kajiado	70	-	-	1961	(Talbot 1972)
Kajiado	13-15	-	-	1927	(Sindiga 1984)^a
Narok	30^b	-	-	1927	(Sindiga, 1984)
Turkana District	63	55	50-70	1979-80	(Ellis and Swift 1988; McCabe 1987)
Kenya	-	-	50-69	1982-84	(Homewood and Lewis 1987); (Oba 2001; Bollig 2006).
Northern Kenya	-	-	50-86	1991-92	(Angassa and Oba 2007; Oba 2001);
Samburu; Northern Kenya	-	-	40-50	1997-98	(FAO 2009; Little et al. 2001)

A comparison of livestock mortality rates reported in this study with mortality rates reported for earlier droughts in different parts of Maasailand. ^aSource: MAR 1927, cited in (Sindiga 1984). ^bNot clear whether the last three figures pertain to cattle or livestock in general.