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Does privatising national parks make economic sense?

Giraffe at the Tsavo National Park [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A suggestion by the country's Tourism Cabinet Secretary that national parks should be privatised did not raise as many eyebrows as expected.

His explanation that it is more about running the parks than selling them outright may have mitigated any negative reactions.

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