Jan - April 2024: The Zambezi Society is focusing and strengthening our efforts to help communities with practical solutions and awareness about Human-Wildlife Co-Existence, along the southern boundary of the Charara Safari Area and within Kariba Town itself. We're printing new awareness materials and plan to extend our Virtual Reality programme in schools to other parts of the Zambezi Valley. We continue to assist ZimParks with anti-poaching around Kariba and in Mana Pools, where the new trans-boundary co-management agreement with the Peace Parks Foundation brings hope for new partnership opportunities. We've also got some more carnivore survey research work lined up with WildCru this year, and we welcome Zambia's decision to withdraw the licence for the controversial Kangaluwi Copper Mine in the Zambezi Valley opposite Mana Pools and Sapi. This is a great win for conservation!

July 2023: We welcome the halt of mining activities at the Zambian Kangaluwi copper mining project opposite the Mana-Sapi-Chewore World Heritage Site and hope that the new Lower Zambezi/Mana Pools Trans-Frontier Conservation agreement will strengthen efforts to combat such threats. We report on our community work, carnivore research, and ongoing support for Zimparks (ranger deployments, food supplies and refurbishments at Marongora School).

On 19 May 2023, The Zambezi Society filed a formal objection to an application by Shalom Mining Corporation (Pvt Ltd) to prospect for petrolium oil and gas within a large area of the Hurungwe Safari Area in the Zambezi Valley adjacent to the Mana Pools National Park.

Jan-Feb 2023: Our first quarterly news for the start of 2023 reports on our strengthened Codes of Conduct for Mana Pools, our anti-poaching assistance to ZimParks, and our help for communities adjacent to Charara to safeguarding livestock against predator attacks. But we are sad to report the loss of two more highly respected conservation colleagues.

January 2023: Recent reports and images indicate that the controversial Kangaluwi open-cast copper mine in Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park, opposite Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools/Sapi/Chewore World Heritage Site, has begun development, with potentially damaging downstream impacts on biodiversity, conservation and the fishing and tourism industries of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

March 2022: As part of The Zambezi Society’s ongoing Historical Series, to celebrate 40 years of Zambezi conservation, we focus on our work to promote and conserve the Zambezi's priceless wilderness values

Nov 2021: As part of The Zambezi Society’s ongoing Historical Series, to celebrate 40 years of Zambezi Valley conservation, we focus on the essential ADVOCACY role that has underpinned our work for the past four decades.

Oct 2021: As part of The Zambezi Society’s ongoing series to celebrate 40 years of Zambezi Valley conservation, we highlight Zamsoc’s role in launching the Rhino Survival Campaign - an emergency fund-raising response to the escalating rhinoceros poaching crisis in the 1980s.

Oct 2021: A summary of Zamsoc’s busy fieldwork season, our upcoming focus on Human Wildlife Co-existence, the launch of a Zamsoc gift page on Amazon.com for gifting items to assist anti-poaching rangers - and lots more.

Sept 2021: Our historical series, celebrating 40 years of Zambezi Valley conservation, features Zimbabwe’s successful application to UNESCO for World Heritage Site status for the Mana Pools/Sapi/Chewore area – inscribed in 1984.

July 2021: As a lead-up to The Zambezi Society’s 40th anniversary in 2022, we introduce a series of historical features highlighting significant events and conservation achievements that we're proud of, spanning the four decades since the Society's formation in 1982.

July 2021: Mid-year news and updates from the Zambezi Society as we continue field operations in Mana Pools and the Charara Safari Area, support Zambia in a fight against mining, and gear up to celebrate our 40th anniversary in 2022.

April 2021: A summary of Zambezi Society activities and operations in the first quarter of 2021; issues of conservation concern, stories of support from the international community and a big shout out to our Operations Team.

March 2021: The Zambezi Society is worried about the impacts of mining activities on the habitat and wildlife of the Zambezi’s tributary rivers. One “de-siltation” project in the Angwa River which borders the Chewore Safari Area is of particular concern.

The Zambezi Society assisted Zimbabwe’s National Man and Biosphere (MAB) Committee to successfully complete and submit Zimbabwe’s first 10-year Periodic Review of the Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve, designated in 2010 by UNESCO under its Man and Biosphere Programme.

A survey of motorised boating for leisure/fishing/transfers on the Zambezi River in Mana Pools National Park is being conducted by ZimParks for response by 31st December 2020! PLEASE HELP THE ZAMBEZI SOCIETY TO ADD WEIGHT TO OUR PROPOSED RESPONSE, by reading our information and completing the survey.

August 2019: What has happened in the Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve since it was designated in 2010? Zamsoc has been tasked with finding out and reporting to UNESCO.

August 2019: The Zambezi Society reports on significant progress being made in fighting ivory and other poaching, with improved funding, new collaborations and the training of field operators.

August 2019: We are working with the Tobacco Industry to slow down the rate of deforestation and habitat loss from small-scale tobacco farming in the Zambezi Valley’s Hurungwe District adjacent to Mana Pools.

June 2019: The Zambezi Society attended this important summit, the first of its kind, and concluded that enlightened conservation organisations have a lot of work to do….