Changing Land Use Patterns and Their Impacts on Wild Ungulates in Kimana Wetland Ecosystem, Kenya

Table 3

Respondent’s opinions on the causes for land use change in KWE.

Possible causes of land use change	Number of respondents	Percentage
Agricultural expansion	63	31.5
Human population increase	51	25.5
Economic forces	26	13.0
Politics	21	10.5
Changing land tenure policy	21	10.5
Drought	8	4.0
Poverty	6	3.0
Education level	4	2.0
Total	200	100.0

Source: author, 2013.