LATEST ZAMBIA NEWS
Minister of Tourism and Arts Sylvia Masembo’s speech at the annual Elephant Charge
About Elephant Charge Elephant Charge is an annual 4x4 challenge that raises funds for conservation in Zambia. During the Independence Weekend some 250 bush lovers and 4x4 enthusiasts converge in some remote spot for a camping weekend of extreme driving and orienteering. In 2013, the fifth event, the 20 teams [...]
Volunteer to Stop Deforestation in Africa
Greenpop’s Trees for Zambia - a Festival of Action “Trees for Zambia was absolutely life-changing! I had the most amazing time. The impact this has had on me, the people I have met and things I’ve seen will stay with me forever.” - Gerry Geldenhuys, volunteer 2013 Join an exciting [...]
Conservation Lower Zambezi Newsletter February 2014
Human wildlife Conflict: Challenges and mitigation Human wildlife conflict has been peaked this month - with crops at a healthy stage, elephants and hippos have been carrying out regular raids on farmland in the villages of Chiawa GMA. Thanks to the International Elephant Foundation and ZAWA, we have been able [...]
Toka Leya Donates Solar Pumps
Wilderness Safaris’ official handover of two solar pumps, four water tanks and two water troughs to Sinde village in Zambia took place on Wednesday, the 26th of February 2014. In collaboration with the village headmen, this generous donation was funded by guests from Toka Leya Camp and will greatly assist [...]
North Luangwa added to TFCA
The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) would like to inform you that North Luangwa National Park has been added to the Zambian component of the Malawi-Zambia Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (TFCA). A Trans-frontier Conservation Area is an area or component of a large ecological region that straddles the boundaries of two or [...]
My Life with Leopards
My Life With Leopards, Graham Cooke’s Story by Fransje van Riel, Penguin Books. When two six-week-old leopard cubs, born in captivity in Zimbabwe, arrive at the Londolozi private game reserve in South Africa, 22-year-old game ranger Graham Cooke is assigned to take care of them. Based in an unfenced tented [...]
In love with Liuwa Plains
Liuwa Plains National Park is a park in Barotseland in Western Zambia that is distinct from the rest of the country and holds allure for wildlife afficianodos from the world on account of its diversity and extraordinary landscapes. Liuwa has been described as akin to the Okavango Delta and for [...]
GPS Tracking collar fitted to Chodoba
At nine years old, Chodoba (“lost and found” in the local language) is the oldest elephant cared for by the Game Rangers International (GRI) Elephant Orphanage Project in Zambia. In 2007 he was found weak and alone, in South Luangwa National Park, and has since been cared for and rehabilitated [...]
Zawa Wins Mumbwa Case
Zambia Wildlife Authority Press Release The Lusaka High court has dismissed the case in which illegal squatters in the Mumbwa Game Management Area (GMA) had sought an injunction restraining the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) from acting on the Lands tribunal’s judgement to relocate them from the GMA to an alternative [...]
More than 400 wildlife criminals arrested
Law Enforcement officers from 28 countries today announced that they completed a joint one month global operation against wildlife criminals, which has resulted in over 400 arrests and more than 350 major wildlife seizures. The global wildlife law enforcement operation, code-named “Operation Cobra II” was being conducted under the auspices [...]
Conservation Lower Zambezi Newsletter January 2014
CLZ Village Scouts Graduate from Advanced Tactical Training Thanks to funding by USFWS, our 15 village scouts graduated from their Advanced Tactical Training this month.The scouts undertook a gruelling 14 day programme of firearms training, survival skills, tactics, first aid and ZAWA legislation with Senior ZAWA Instructor Ryson Lungu, and [...]
Wildlife police officer arrested
The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) has arrested seven suspects, among them a Wildlife Police Officer for being in illegal possession of four live Pangolins, elephant tails, raw ivory and ivory products. The seven suspects were apprehended in three separate incidents in Livingstone yesterday. In the first incident, MannexMalambo, 40, a [...]