Safari hunting remains by far the highest earner of revenue directly sustaining biodiversity conservation and wildlife-based land use in Zimbabwe – be it under communal, private or state tenure. Hunting revenues not only incentivise and pay for wildlife as a primary land-use option on private and communal land, but so too, in the face of ever mounting pressure for land, does it stave off political and social pressure to de-gazette protected areas (PA's) on state land.