Dataset collected via questionnaire survey across over 1300 respondents in Southern Kenya & used for the modeling of correlates of poison use as reported in the study published in Ambio in 2022:Awareness of environmental legislation as a deterrent for wildlife crime – a case with Masaai pastoralists, poison use and the Kenya Wildlife Act Authors: Zahra Didarali, Timothy Kuiper, Christiaan W. Brink, Ralph Buij, Munir Virani, Eric O. Reson, Andrea Santangeli