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Crime syndicates are plundering Zambia’s heritage plant – why it matters
04 August 2025
In western Zambia’s Sioma Ngwezi National Park, a little-known medicinal plant is vanishing – not from overuse by local communities, but at the hands of international crime syndicates. Devil’s Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens), a heritage species long used by communities across southern Africa, has already disappeared in two of the park’s three zones. Its tuber is […]
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Kavango Zambezi and beyond: how you can help protect bird life in flight
11 Jun 2024
The mighty Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) is the largest transboundary landscape in the world, and Peace Parks Foundation has been working with member states to support its development since 2004....
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Community, Community Development, Conservation, General, Lower Zambezi - Mana Pools TFCA, Malawi Zambia TFCA, Nyika National Park, Partnerships, Rewilding, Sioma Ngwezi National Park, TFCAs, Tourism, Transboundary Landscapes, Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve
Peace Parks’ Partnership Pacts to Protect Biodiversity
22 May 2024
Historic. Ambitious. A win for the planet. Those were the words used in 2022 to describe the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, an ambitious pact signed by 198 countries to protect, restore and live in harmony with...
Biodiversity, Community, Community Development, Conservation, Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Partnerships, Sioma Ngwezi National Park, TFCAs, Transboundary Landscapes
Historic 20-year multi-party partnership agreement to restore and protect the Sioma Ngwezi landscape in Zambia
28 Mar 2024
Livingstone, 27/03/2024 – The Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) in collaboration with the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE), Peace Parks Foundation and WWF Zambia, have entered into a unique agreement to co-manage...
Community, Community Development, Conservation, Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Partnerships, Simalaha Community Conservancy, Sioma Ngwezi National Park, TFCAs
Peace Parks Foundation pays tribute to the late Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta of the Sisheke Chiefdom, Zambia
21 Jul 2023
Exemplary leader, visionary and ambassador for conservation.
Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Sioma Ngwezi National Park, Wildlife Crime
Creating safe havens for pangolins
20 Feb 2021
As we commemorate the 10th Annual World Pangolin Day on 20 February 2021, we are reminded of the plight of these uniquely beautiful scaly anteaters. As a result of being relentlessly poached for...
Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Malawi Zambia TFCA, Nyika National Park, Sioma Ngwezi National Park, Tourism
Wildlife rangers are running for their future
25 Sep 2020
On 3 October 2020 over 70 ranger teams across the African continent will run for their future in a half marathon, carrying their typical 25kg backpack and equipment - building comradery and raising...
