became a significant source of tax revenue to the national government. Their success became part of the projects' downfall. The interest of international development funders wanting to get behind the project and the healthy cash flow were too much to resist. In 1989, a year before the project was to be officially turned over to national management, corrupt officials forcibly moved the Lungrens to the capital. They spent the next few years in Ouaga completing the project studies in hopes that the ranch would nevertheless succeed. Under national management, the Nazinga Game Ranch reverted to a national wildlife park catering to foreign tourists. Poaching and poor management are once more huge problems, and the project no longer stands as a remarkable and successful innovation in tying grass-root ownership to effective environmental management. References Nature conservation in Burkina Faso 1979 establishments in Upper Volta