Zambia
More than 30% of Zambia’s area (752,614 km² or 290,586 mi² roughly the same size as Türkiye) is reserved for wildlife. There are 20 national parks and 34 game management areas in the country.
Given this, some populations do not appear to be as high as they should be. The country has a lion population of around 1200, though this seems pretty low given the amount of protected land.
Greater Kafue Ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems in Africa (the greater ecosystem being the Kalahari Zambezi transfrontier park), and is one of 2 areas in the country where lion are present (the other being Luangwa valley and the north and south national park in this area). Having said this, many of Zambia national parks are on the border with other countries, allowing lions to return (in places). It is possible that the right policies could greatly boost lions in these parts of the country. Nsumba national park on the border with Tanzania is another area where you occasionally see lions, probably because of its proximity to protected land across the border in Tanzania. sioma ngwezi national park, likewise has lions.
Given how much land in Zambia is set aside for wildlife, and without forgetting the spectacular sites like the view above, Zambia is likely to be on most lists for places to visit
Zambia News
Might a raise in the minimum age for lion trophy hunting help?
- Tim
- March 11, 2023
At the moment, in most areas, male lions can be hunted from the age of 6. Unfortunately as the age of the lion is regularly over-estimated, this means that lions…
African wild dogs live at low densities naturally, what happens if climate change makes survival harder?
- Tim
- July 13, 2022
African wild dog, fill a similar niche in Africa that the wolf does in much of the northern hemisphere. Hunting as a pack, and running greater prey down until exhaustion…
The website was hacked! nothing lost, and wildlife tourism to Africa can return
- Tim
- October 7, 2021
Hello everyone! We survive
So, the website was hacked. Nothing was stolen, from what I was told they were just able to delete the website. Thankfully we back up, so…
Transfrontier parks – allowing wildlife to exist closer to how it did before humans arrived
- Tim
- February 10, 2018
In Africa it is becoming increasingly common for national parks to be declared on both sides of a border. This allows the protected area to be vastly larger than either…Read More
Future Destinations – Zambia
National parks (none currently have pages attached, they will be attached to the below images, as they are written)
Blue lagoon national park e Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported photo credit Cleopatra Browne
Kafue-NP-by-Jeffery-McKeith
Kasanka national park photo credit Mehmet Karatay CC by SA 4.0
Lavushi manda nationalpark
Lochinvar national park
Lower Zambezi natioanl park photo credit Joachim Huber CC by SA 2.0
North Luangwa national park phtoo credit save the rhinos
South Luangwa national park Geoff Gallice CC by 2.0
White Rhino Mosi-oa-Tunya national park, Photo credit Hans-Hilewaret CC by SA 4.0
The various kinds of reserves will be added in time (community reserves, scientific reserves and wildlife reserves).
