Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)

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1. Story
2. A five-country transfrontier conservation area spanning Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, established by treaty in 2011 and centred on the Okavango and Zambezi river basins. KAZA links national parks, forest reserves, game management areas, communal conservancies and community land into a single planning unit on the argument that dispersal between protected areas — not any one park — is what sustains large-mammal populations. A coordinated 2022 aerial survey estimated about 227,900 elephants across the surveyed KAZA strata, the largest savanna elephant population on the continent. The corridors themselves follow water, which is precisely where people farm, so the area is also where human–elephant conflict concentrates.
3. Knowledge
4. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
5. Connections
6. Okavango Delta
7. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
8. Hwange National Park
9. Chobe National Park
10. Zambezi River
11. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
12. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
13. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
14. Evidence
15. KAZA was established by treaty between Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2011, linking national parks, game management areas, forest reserves and community land across the Okavango and Zambezi basins; a coordinated dry-season aerial survey flown August-October 2022 estimated about 227,900 elephants in the TFCA, with Botswana holding about 131,909, described as broadly stable relative to the 2016 IUCN African Elephant Status Report.