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South Luangwa National Park is a national park in eastern Zambia that was founded as a game reserve in 1938 and became a national park in 1972. It covers 9,050 km 2 (3,490 sq mi) in the valley of the Luangwa River, which forms its eastern boundary in the Eastern Province of Zambia.
Animals are plentiful and mostly well-protected, though poaching of elephant and rhinoceros has been a problem in the recent past. In the Luangwa Valley over 100,000 elephants were killed by poachers in a twelve-year period between 1973-1985. Zambia as a whole lost over 80% of its elephant population during that period. [3]
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Zambia. Of the 237 mammal species in Zambia, one is critically endangered, three are endangered, eight are vulnerable, and fourteen are near threatened. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
The Great Elephant Migration can be seen in New York City's Meatpacking District through Oct. 20. After that, it will travel to Miami Beach, Fla., for December, with later stops in Montana ...
This is Ndotto, a new born elephant so young he thought a herd of cows were his family. Rescued from the remote Ndoto Mountains in northern Kenya on Thursday 7th August, the tiny new born and his ...
This is a list of national parks in Zambia. There are twenty national parks in Zambia , although many of them are not well maintained and so contain no facilities and few animals. Others have high concentrations of animals and are popular with tourists, while two or three are world-famous.
A charging elephant killed an American woman when it flipped over the car she was traveling in at a national park in Zambia.. The “aggressive” creature buffeted the vehicle carrying six ...
The foundation is also a World Elephant Day associate. The Royal Elephant Kraal & Village was established in 1996, and is home to 90 elephants (Oct 2014). Today a world heritage site, the Royal Elephant Kraal is steeped in elephant history. It dates back to the 16th century and was historically a compound where wild elephants were captured and ...