Sustainable Community-Based Tourism: Salambala Conservancy, Namibia

The concept of Community-Based Tourism is widely §used. It denotes socio-economic transformation §processes that communities engage in the quest for §sustainable§management and utilisation of natural resources. §This book discusses the application of this concept §and seeks to explain some of the successes and §challenges of Community-Based Natural §Resources Management (CBNRM) and CAMPFIRE model. §While discussing the changing patterns of §animal and human populations' demography of Caprivi §in relation to land-use, the book also explores the §links of the CBNRM program of the Government of §Namibia to livelihoods, conservation and wildlife §management practices. This book is an assessment of §the Salambala community's awareness of the §challenges, opportunities, threats and alternatives §in the management of natural resources for the §purposes of community-based development. The book §concludes that while wildlife conservation within §the parameters of subsistance agriculture seems §doable, rallying local human resources to utilise §natural resources for entrepreneurship in this §conservancy remains a challenge.