We-guana eat protein.

• Author: Goethals, Henry
• Position: Iguana farming

A West German zoologist may have come up with a workable plan for providing the population of tropical Central America with a high-protein meat -- and dissuading them from cutting down the forest.

"Eat iguana," says Dagmar Werner, who styles herself "Mama Iguana." According to Werner, a farmer can raise 100 6 1/2-pound iguanas a year on 2 1/2 acres of forested land, producing 480 pounds of meat.

In 1986, Werner provided local farmers materials for the construction of cages, nests and incubators and then released thousands of iguanas...