Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) is a corporate body established by the Act of Parliament, Zambia Wildlife Act No. 12 of 1998 to conserve the wildlife national asset. Through its human and other capital resources, ZAWA thrives to achieve excellence in wildlife estate management by developing innovative approaches and partnerships that encompass best practice, and complete transparency and integrity.

ZAWA has long history of local community participation in the wildlife management. Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has been adopted as a strategy for sustainable wildlife management and contributes to poverty alleviation and improved household food security. Within the framework of Public Private Partnerships, we continue making strides in facilitating local community participation in wildlife management, alongside working with private sector. We remain committed and resolved to facilitating sound utilisation of wildlife revenues as a vehicle for rural development and sustainable livelihoods among the local communities in wildlife producing areas. Likewise, hunting outfitters are closely working with us to contribute to rural development.

We, uphold the importance of research in wildlife management and encourage focused research that will ensure that management actions are used as experimental tests of our understanding of the systems managed and that as a result, research inquiry will be directed towards questions of management significance. This website has highlighted some areas of research that are under implementation with ZAWA support. There is also a site for the research policy to guide you further! ZAWA would facilitate any partnerships of value with local and international research / academic institutions on research and monitoring.

We, at ZAWA, are resolved to providing appropriate information to the general public and our esteemed clients on the Zambia Wildlife Authority. We will continue to do so in a visionary manner with complete transparency and integrity.

In order to translate the identified tourism potential in our key wildlife estates, ZAWA is closely working with the government to create tangible opportunities for wildlife based tourism investment. Opportunities exist in many of the Zambia’s protected areas, notably in Kafue, South Luangwa, Nsumbu and Mosi-oa-tunya National Parks. Currently there are more than 27 sites requiring development. Relevant information can be found on the specific site for investment opportunities available on our website. Our wildlife estates offer a diverse tourism products ranging from game drives, sight seeing, water based activities, safari hunting to fish angling among others and are safe areas to visit, with high level of tranquillity. 

ZAWA is grateful to its cooperating partners for the support received, without which it would have been very difficult to accomplish the great tasks that it executes. The areas of support with the respective sponsors have been given on this website and include areas of emergency resources protection, capacity building, infrastructure development, research, monitoring and planning.

We will be delighted to receive your feed back, so we can serve you better. Enjoy yourselves interacting with us and our wildlife estates.

Thank you.

Dr. Lewis Saiwana