 CURRENT SPECIALS
There is currently a fantastic array of great SPECIALS on offer from some of Wild Zambezi’s network partners.
Check the SPECIALS link for each Wild Zambezi travel partner below:-
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Everyone loves telling stories about the elephants they have seen while on safari. Naturally enough guests returning from Chundu Island in the middle of the Zambezi River in the Zambezi National Park upstream from the Victoria Falls will proudly tell their friends about the beautiful elephants they saw in Zimbabwe.
And this is correct – look at the maps and they will show that Chundu is indeed in Zimbabwe. The stamps in your passport will prove this too.
But for some elephants, and many other mammals and birds, the area around Chundu is merely part of a much larger landscape where political boundaries are largely ignored and through which they move in accordance with their needs.
For an elephant getting to Livingstone on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls, 15 kilometres away from Chundu as the vulture glides, is an easy walk. Walking to Chobe National Park in Botswana takes a bit longer, it’s about 50 kilometres away on the vulture-glide scale, but some elephants do it year after year and the recent research shows that this is all part of a much larger elephant movement pattern across vast areas of this part of Africa.
“The research has shown that the elephants of northern Botswana have the largest home ranges (24, 828 square kilometres) recorded for African elephants and has conclusively confirmed that the elephants of northern Botswana are part of a large contiguous elephant population encompassing western Zimbabwe, the Caprivi Strip (now known as Zambezia) in Namibia, south east Angola and southwest Zambia,” researchers at the NGO Elephants without Borders (EWB) state on their website.
This is a home range larger than the whole of Israel, Wales in the U.K. or the state of New Hampshire in the U.S.A!
How awesome is that?
Passport? What passport?
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