I recently explored a brand new website called Community Conservation Namibia, which attractively presents the current state of communal conservancies in the country. A combination of hard data, personal stories, and clear explanations of each facet of the programme, this website is a gold mine for anyone who is interested in the role rural communities play in conservation. I will take you on a tour of the new website’s highlights here, yet you really need to visit the site yourself to get the full benefit of this excellent resource. The Namibian conservancy programme has always been known among conservation professionals as both a success story and a valuable source of information about how community conservation works. Considering the current scope of the programme – with 86 conservancies registered to date – collating and presenting this information is no mean feat. Previous reports on the state of conservancies were only available in hardcopy or as PDF downloads; this new website makes this information far more accessible. These efforts further reveal the transparency in the programme. The data comes straight from the men and women working for the conservancies through to head offices in Windhoek, where the information is collated into a suitable reporting format. The challenges of human-wildlife conflict, conservancy governance, community benefits and wildlife crime are all tackled head-on by discussing each issue based on current data and trends.