Abstract:
This study investigates the environmental conservation costs of the local authorities in Kenya by analyzing the data collected from
90 of these local authorities. The population of the study is the 175 local authorities in Kenya. A sample of 90 local authorities has
been used. Both statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17 and Excel have been used to determine the level of
environmental conservation costs in the studied local authorities. The results indicated that there was a wide use of environmental
conservation costs among the local authorities. The study provides preliminary evidence on environmental conservation costs used
by local authorities in Kenya. Further research is suggested to explore the possible motivating factors among different local
authorities’ degree of application and level of environmental costs in different activities.
