 Carvango Zambezi Transcontee Conservation Area or more commonly known as Khaza is a landscape of coexistence. Large numbers of wildlife moving constantly as the environment changes as weather changes to different protected areas and this 2.53 million population of people are therefore living with these large amounts of wildlife. I think 70% of wildlife lives outside protected areas among the local communities and if they are not involved or participate in the conservation of these natural resources then it means we may see a bad relationship between the wildlife or the wildlife officials or the government with the communities themselves. You have various different challenges with what we call human wildlife conflict. You have herds of elephants passing through their villages and living areas and businesses and farms. It might be a farmer with his cattle being taken by lion for example. The community conservation model is the one in which the community resides and they have a zoned area where we have grazing lands, where we have farming land, where we have wildlife area and this zoning is done with the community so they have ownership of the project and everything that they do they know that it belongs to them so this is why they are very excited. Communities are able now to form what we call conservancies so that they can have the user rights to manage and utilize natural resources sustainably for the benefit of their members. The purpose is just to uplift the livelihood of the community members within a specific area whereby they can generate money through wildlife or through plant produce. We are looking at a portfolio of economic activities that would happen within the conservancy to ensure that the conservancy is sustainable. Fifty percent goes to the operation of the conservancy, fifty percent goes to the community which is in terms of project whether it's water, electricity or whatever project to help in school and churches, traditional authority. Since 1998 when the first conservancy was gazetted currently in the Zambesu region we have fifteen gazetted conservancies and one association. In Namibia is much advanced with two decades of practice and very good tools to be shared with other countries. So for Zambia and Zimbabwe we are at a sort of in between stage where there is a good basis, a good commitment at local and country level and it needs to be consolidated, developed especially the governance system. In a similar situation in Botswana where again there's a landscape identified and a very good commitment and things need to be now set up and developed to fully establish conservancy. As long as the communities are involved and they participate and they are seeing the solutions to conservation through the presence of wildlife in their communal areas I think this leads to a brighter future for both wildlife and the people living with the wildlife.