RIDE SIDE BY SIDE WITH WILDLIFE HERE!

Area: 180 000ha / 444 780ac of which 40 000ha / 9 900ac is a wildlife sanctuary.

Simalaha is Zambia’s first community-led conservancy. With Peace Parks Foundation’s support, the Lozi people protect part of the biggest terrestrial cross-border conservation system in the world and improve access to food, health, livelihood opportunities and education – by responsibly managing and protecting natural resources and wildlife.

Area: 180 000ha / 444 780ac of which 40 000ha / 9 900ac is a wildlife sanctuary.

More than 2,000 animals have been rewilded in the conservancy, including red lechwe, puku, eland, roan antelope, buffalo and giraffe. They have settled well and established healthy breeding populations.

WILDLIFE CHECKLIST

The Simalaha Wildlife Conservancy has 22 large mammal species which can be seen on the plains and in the surrounding mopane forest and it is not unusual to see hundreds of wildebeest, zebra and lechwe grazing in harmony with the local tribesman’s cattle making Zambian Horseback Safaris a truly unique experience.

  • Ostrich

  • Eland

  • Sable

  • Reedbuck

  • Duiker

  • Vervet Monkeys

  • Side-striped Jackal

  • Hippos

  • Nile Crocodiles

  • Wildebeest

  • Zebra

  • Red Lechwe

  • Puku

  • Hartebeest

  • Impala

  • Waterbuck

  • Giraffe

  • Buffalo