ABSTRACT
Just four years ago, marauding wildlife would have spurred Uketi and his fellow villagers to kill the animals with poison and spears. Today, the people in Mahenya and in scores of other Zimbabwean villages tolerate the crop losses, the property damage and the danger, for one reason. They-not the central government-now own the animals in their district. They profi t from them. And so they protect them.
