LATEST ZAMBIA NEWS
Tracking and Trailing for The Best Bird Photography
Searching for birds requires a special level of dedication, focus, and persistence. All of which pays off in rare treats of serene connections with nature and accomplishment. Birds’ size and speed present a unique challenge for watchers and photographers. Capturing the unique beauty and brilliance the skies have to offer [...]
New Promo Video to Boost Zambia’s Tourism
We are proud to announce that as of today, our slick new promotional video welcomes visitors to the Zambiatourism.com website. We hope that the video will add another level of allure to our comprehensive site and continue to help take Zambia's online tourism footprint to new heights. The video was [...]
Lion Encounter Zambia to Suspend Lion Walks
The Directors and Managment of Lion Encounter Zambia have agreed to suspend lion walks in Zambia as of November 2015. According to their website, this move follows "recommendations by and "consultations with" ALERT's Executive Committee. The Lion Encounter press release goes on to say that "the main objective of this [...]
South Luangwa’s Incredible Carmine Bee-Eaters
At Shenton Safaris we are very proud of our unique network of hides built and designed each year by Derek Shenton himself. Along with our mobile hide, elephant hide, hippo hide and Mwamba’s waterhole hide we also have our carmine bee-eater hide. The hide is available from Mid-August cleverly made [...]
Conservation Lower Zambezi Newsletter – February 2015
Environmental Education kicks off! Chongwe outreach 2015 CLZ'S Environmental Education Programme began in Chongwe District this month, funded by Elephant Charge. Our EEP team visiting 10 schools bordering the Lower Zambezi National Park for a lesson on poaching, and its effects, on not only wildlife but on local and global [...]
Zambia To Dominate Safari Awards Again?
Late last year in London, Norman Carr Safaris in Zambia was named by The Safari Awards as the Best Safari Experience in Africa, 2015. A further 14 safari lodges, houses and mobile organisations were honoured for their achievements in areas such as contribution to local communities, ecological sensitivity, safari guiding and [...]
Why the Kafue?
The Kafue National Park, we are always being told, is unknown and not on people's radar. Agents and destination management companies tell us that it is far easier to sell South Luangwa and that Kafue is just “too hard”. We are all hoping that in 2015 to a certain extent [...]
Waterbuck on the Menu
Waterbuck are generally known not to be high on the menu for lions, due to an oily secretion from a sweat gland that helps waterproof the buck when it enters the water and which is said to ruin the taste. However, I would have to disagree. On a game drive [...]
Walking With Lions: Con or Conservation? Further Thoughts
Some of you may have seen my post late last year questioning the ethics of "lion walks" on the Zambian side of Vic Falls in the face of growing allegations, concerns and criticism from former employees, volunteers, journalists and conservationists. My post also bore the news that conversation with Zambia [...]
Every King One Day Falls
Towards the end of our 2014 season we noticed that the Mwamba Kaingo lion pride had been one male down. The dominant male of the pride had been seen less and less and the last time he had been spotted he was behaving strangely; he was sighted not far from [...]
ZTB Markets New Uni-Visa At New York Times Travel Show
The Zambia Tourism Board's Marketing Manager Doris Kofi and her delegation were recently in New York at the feted New York Times Travel Show to market the new uni-visa for Zimbabwe and Zambia to the global travel industry. Mrs Kofi said: “The Kaza Visa, which we launched last year, is [...]
Meet Kalengo Kamwendo, Zambia’s youngest pilot
At the tender age of twenty years old, Kalenga Kamwendo has become Zambia's youngest pilot, having been hired as part of Proflight Zambia's commitment to supporting Zambian youth and nurturing young local talent. Kamwendo was given the job on his 20th Birthday in August last year, and has since joined [...]