This guide is intended to contribute to making CBNRM work in Botswana. It outlines a process, injects ideas and warnings, provides examples, and will hopefully encourage the reader to be creative but cautious, committed to the theory but see things in perspective at the same time. It is stressed that this guide is not a manual or recipe book that one simply follows to reach success. CBNRM, as a development approach, is much too complicated for that.