 My name is Dr. Roger Sluido. I'm the chairperson for the Zambia Community-Based Natural Resource Management Forum in Zambia. This forum is an umbrella organisation of communities who are involved in sustainable wildlife and natural resources management in Zambia. Community is actually critical and primarily producers of wildlife and natural resources, and therefore it is very, very important that communities have a say in all the decisions involving these wildlife resources. They are the people who live with them, they produce them, they bear the cost, so it's just as important that communities have a say on what happens around the resources that they live with. Speaking about myself, I grew up in the village, I've lived in these areas so I know what it takes, I know what issues, what challenges we go through, the human wildlife conflicts, people affected in many ways by living in these areas, so I have a personal experience, a personal story, and it's very, very necessary that people who live with these resources share their connection, their connection with nature, their connection with these wildlife resources because we also carry and bring out the indigenous knowledge. We have the indigenous knowledge that we know about what kind of species, we need to look after what kind of trees, what kind of plants, all those kind of things. So there's that indigenous connection between communities and their environment in which they live here. Hence it's very, very critical that they share their stories because that will help to also link it for instant scientific research, it also link it to policy making and so on, and it should be able to help government to make proper decisions. I think wildlife conservation or natural resource conservation, I think there are many ways in which that could be done, but I think also keeping the wildlife in the world environment, in their natural habitats, in their traditional way is very, very critical and very, very important. So we see a question where we need to let the wildlife live in the original environment. Of course there are management issues that may arise, especially species that are threatened or that are near distinction, that might have to be kept for instance in zoo or so on, but I think allowing the wildlife roam within this free-ranging area, roaming-ranging area is as important for conservation itself.