A small group of community based Ecosystem Management Understanding ("EMU") ecologists from Western Australia travelled to Namibia in 2003 and ran a field-based Workshop in land management with the Auas-Oanob Conservancy near Windhoek, with local support from the Polytechnic of Namibia. EMU is a landscape literacy programme in which local landholders are helped to use their experience and local knowledge to characterise their properties (in this case farms) as ecological systems within larger systems and so improve landscape productivity and the quality of the land as habitat to livestock and wildlife.