The multifaceted field of wildlife management embraces diverse issues such as habitat conservation, co-management, sustainable utilization, and political patronage. In order to adequately naddress complex decision scenarios, wildlife managers have to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines, such as ecology, anthropology and economics. However, many of the wildlife departments in southern Africa have become staffed by young graduates with limited field-based experience. It has become apparent that there is a need to provide access to the existing stream of knowledge through both technology and the creation of a basis for communication and debate.