This project aims to train local community members to be snake ambassadors within their own local communities and create widespread knowledge about snakes to encourage harmonious living with these animals. Through our existing partnerships with local conservation organisations, we have educated learners at schools and received positive feedback over the last few years. To build on this initiative, our project will create engagement with local communities through our trained snake champions. We will train snake champions to conduct surveys and learn about the importance of snakes and their ecological roles. The snake champions will further assist us in gaining knowledge and insight on the current relationship between people and snakes and the activity of snakes in the local communities. By creating a holistic approach to mitigate human-snake conflict, we hope to not only create improved perceptions of snakes but to reduce the number of snakebite incidences that occur. The goal of this project is to bridge the gap between science and society and promote sustainable conservation practices through education and outreach. Using snakes as an example, the larger goal is to encourage local communities in Hoedspruit to protect the natural spaces that still exist for future generations.