ABSTRACT
The Kenyan woodcarving industry – particularly the economics of supply and demand of indigenous wood resources – has already been described (see Chapter 3). The urgency of putting the woodcarving industry in Kenya, and elsewhere, on a sustainable footing is evident. To do so will involve a multitude of interventions. If sustainability is not achieved, the livelihoods of tens of thousands of carvers and their dependants will be threatened, while there will be further loss of globally important biodiversity harboured by forests (Schmitt and Cunningham, 2002).
