Monthly Archives: February 2025

It felt unnatural, but we had no time to think it through. Our instructions were clear: get off the game drive vehicle and follow, single file, until we found them. Our moment was slipping away fast as the sun was already dipping below the horizon, painting broad brush strokes of orange and red in the sky above and elongating the shadows of the trees in the golden grass around us.

Two of Southern Africa's great rivers, the Okavango and Zambezi, have lent their names to the Kavango-Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA). At 200,000 square miles, KAZA is the largest wildlife conservation area in the world. It's enormous, larger than Germany and Austria combined, roughly the size of Sweden, and nearly twice as large as the United Kingdom.