SLCS Fun Run
This year the SLCS fun run is even BIGGER and Better.. We have a chartered plane taking people there and have some great deals at various lodges […]
Funds secured for ZAWA Scouts
The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) has secured funds from government to pay all outstanding salaries for Village Scouts countrywide. By last week most of the Scouts received their January salaries, while the rest for February, March and April have been [...]
ZAWA Goes Electronic
THE Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) is in the process of automating its revenue collection and licensing system which will soon be rolled out to National Parks countrywide. ZAWA has spent about $300,000 to secure and implement the system aimed at [...]
Conservation Lower Zambezi Newsletter March 2014
LZ Safari Guide Training and Exams Above: Candidates put through their paces by thick bush and tough examining team CLZ Base Camp has been flooded this month with trainee guides and candidates for the Lower Zambezi Safari Guide Exams. As [...]
LATF Contributes to ZAWA
Above: LATF representative Edward Phiri (left) hands over contributed items and a certificate of commendation to ZAWA DG Xenophon Vlahakis (right). The Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) has made a contribution of assorted law enforcement equipment and cash worth about [...]
ZAWA & GRI Train Wildlife Officers
The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) in collaboration with Game Rangers International (GRI) yesterday concluded a seven day training exercise for Wildlife Police officers at Kafue National Park. The training included an introduction to small firearms and tactical planning for ZAWA’s [...]
Zambian poachers killed in Zimbabwe
The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) has received information of a fatal shooting incident in which some Zambian Nationals who are alleged to have gone poaching in a National Park in Zimbabwe have been shot dead and others injured. ZAWA Investigations [...]
Buffallo released back in Lochinvar
March 25, 2014 The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) is pleased to inform you that it has successfully captured and released back safely into Lochinvar National Park, a female Buffalo that had recently strayed into the farming community of Monze district. ZAWA [...]
Kasanka Cycle Challenge 2014
On 25th May 2014, Kasanka National Park plays host to the annual Cycle Challenge. This event invites cyclists and spectators from all over the country to participate in an off road adventure with a difference. With three races to suit [...]
Project Luangwa Newsletter February/March 2014
The start of 2014 brought us two great volunteers and this month I've handed over the newsletter to one of them. My name is Julia . . . . . . and I recently volunteered to help Project Luangwa with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]