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The Lower Zambezi National Park lies on the north bank of the Zambezi River in southeastern Zambia. Until 1983 when the area was declared a national park, the area was the private game reserve of Zambia's president. This meant that the park was protected from mass tourism and now remains one of the few untouched wilderness areas left in Africa.
Liuwa Plain National Park — in the remote far west, no facilities but some large herds of animals; Lochinvar National Park — a small park south of the Kafue Flats world-famous for bird life and herds of lechwe, one lodge; Lower Zambezi National Park — east of Lusaka, offers good wildlife viewing on the Zambezi River; numerous lodges [1]
Zambezi River at junction of Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe & Botswana.jpg Licensing This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
The middle Zambezi was about 300 m (980 ft) lower than the upper Zambezi, and a high waterfall formed at the edge of the basalt plateau across which the upper river flows. This was the first Victoria Falls, somewhere down the Batoka Gorge near where Lake Kariba is now.
Zambia's North Luangwa National Park was recognized as Zambia's first Green List site. It is managed by the Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Zambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife and is known for its black rhino and African elephant populations. [10] The park is also home to one of the ten remaining African lion strongholds. [2]
Luangwa District is far from the famous Luangwa national parks, but includes spectacular scenery and wildlife of its own. The Lower Zambezi National Park west of the town is a rugged wilderness on the Zambezi Escarpment and the lower Luangwa valley includes unspoilt scenery and wildlife habitats. [5]
The Zambezian and mopane woodlands is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of southeastern Africa.. The ecoregion is characterized by the mopane tree (Colophospermum mopane), and extends across portions of Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, including the lower basins of the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
Mana Pools National Park is a 219,600-hectare (543,000-acre) wildlife conservation area and national park in northern Zimbabwe. [2] It is a region of the lower Zambezi in Zimbabwe where the floodplain turns into a broad expanse of lakes after each rainy season .