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the National Council for Science and Technology, Narok County Government and the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association for permission to carry out this study, Basecamp Foundation Kenya for providing funding to allow us to conduct the in- terviews, and private donors who made donations to the Kenya Wildlife Trust. We also thank the 10 interviewers, the respondents for volunteering their time, Fiona Tande for assisting with data entry, Sam Turvey for advice on using interview data, Lisanne Petracca for advice on site-occupancy modelling, and the reviewers for their useful comments.
Author contributions Concept and design: FB; supervision of data collection: FB; data validation: FB and EKM; analysis: EKM; writing: EKM; revision and editing: FB.
Conflicts of interest None.
Ethical standards Surveys followed the Zoological Society of London’s guidelines and methods were approved by Society’s Ethical Committee.
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