Zambezi River

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1. Story
2. The fourth-longest river in Africa, rising in north-western Zambia and reaching the Indian Ocean through Mozambique, and one of the two river systems that define KAZA's geography. The Zambezi is simultaneously the axis of wildlife movement, the international boundary between several KAZA states, the site of Victoria Falls and its tourism economy, and the region's principal irrigation and hydropower resource. Every function competes with the others: the same floodplain that carries dispersal is the most farmable land in the corridor.
3. Knowledge
4. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
5. Zambezi River
6. Connections
7. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
8. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
9. Okavango Delta
10. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
11. Hwange National Park
12. Chobe National Park
13. Zambezi River
14. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
15. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
16. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
17. Evidence
18. 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.