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Zambia’s national parks protect some of the most significant wildlife landscapes on the continent. But parks alone are not enough. A national park without a functioning buffer zone is an ecological island — isolated from the broader landscape, cut off from migration corridors, and over time, vulnerable.

A US 501(C)(3) PUBLIC CHARITY Zambia Wildlife & Community Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States. Our EIN is 81-5035617. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. There is no overhead charge on donor funds. The founders’ existing operational infrastructure — equipment, vehicles, staff, and logistics in Zambia — is funded from personal resources. Every donated dollar is deployed at cost, directly into programs. When y

Norman Carr pioneered the walking safari in the Luangwa Valley in the 1950s — and with it, a philosophy that community benefit must be central to wildlife conservation. His ideas are now the foundation of Zambia’s national conservation framework and of every durable conservation model across Africa.

Brooke and Corby Robertson are a Texas-based family with a long history of community and conservation work, a commitment to giving back to cherished communities that has been passed down for several generations. Since 2023

Zambia has 20 national parks covering approximately 8 percent of its total land area. Together with the Game Management Areas that surround them, protected landscapes account for 38 percent of the country — one of the highest proportions on the continent. These are not nominal designations. Zambia’s parks are genuinely wild: vast, largely unfenced, and connected to the surrounding landscape in ways that allow wildlife to move as it always has.