Hwange National Park

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1. Story
2. Zimbabwe's largest national park, roughly 14,650 km2 in the north-west, and a core KAZA component. Hwange has almost no permanent natural surface water across much of its extent, so its dry-season elephant concentrations depend on pumped artificial waterholes — a park whose carrying capacity is an engineering decision. Elephants move between Hwange, Chobe and the Zambezi valley across international boundaries, which is the practical case for KAZA-scale rather than park-scale management.
3. Knowledge
4. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
5. Hwange National Park
6. Connections
7. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
8. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
9. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
10. Okavango Delta
11. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
12. Hwange National Park
13. Chobe National Park
14. Zambezi River
15. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
16. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
17. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
18. Evidence
19. 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.