A five-year-old program protects waterbirds by turning poachers into rangers. Why poachers? Poachers know where to find the birds, and they understand the landscape. Plus, they can earn more money as rangers than they ever did in the bird business – an incentive to keep working.

[Read](http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0316/p16s01-sten.html) (Christian Science Monitor)