Meanwhile, the Ezemvelo KZ-N Wildlife authority has also reduced antagonism to their parks by allowing people to sustainably harvest plant resources (thatching grass, firewood, reeds and medicinal plants) within certain parks, allocating a proportion of gate fees to community projects, through co-management agreements and poverty alleviation projects and education programmes. In Botswana’s Okavango Delta, widespread antipathy to wildlife and tourism among neighbouring communities in the 1990s was reversed following implementation of a community-based natural resource management programme with revenues from tourism reaching community members (often through employment opportunities): poaching decreased dramatically and several mammal populations stabilised or increased by 2004 (Mbaiwa and Stronza 2011).