Uganda, May 8 -- As evening descends on Ssegenya, parents usher children indoors earlier than before. Farmers move in groups.

Conservationists repeatedly return to a single question: who bears responsibility when wildlife arrives at the doorstep?

In Ssegenya Village, West Division of Mubende Municipality, Mubende District, dusk no longer signals resting. It signals vigilance.

For weeks, residents have lived under the shadow of chimpanzees straying into homesteads and gardens, leaving behind fear, injury and renewed anger over what locals describe as institutional inaction.

The latest victim is a one-and-a-half-year-old boy, the son of Rose Asiimwe, now nursing injuries at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, after he was attacked while...