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Zambezi River: Charting a Course for the ‘River of Life’

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The Zambezi River is home to an amazing collection of iconic African wildlife: hippos, Cape buffalo, elephants and more. It also provides sustenance to some 40 million residents and delivers electricity to homes as far away as South Africa.

But with a human population on track to double by 2025 in the Zambezi basin, the Zambezi River needs creative conservation solutions. The Nature Conservancy is collaborating with local partners to restore some of the Zambezi’s natural flows while providing benefits to both people and wildlife.

Discover the Zambezi

Read how humans and wildlife depend on the Zambezi as it flows in its 1,673 miles across southern Africa.

Fact Sheet: The Zambezi River

Learn more about how we're protecting the Zambezi River, for nature and people. Download our fact sheet.

Map of Our Zambezi Work

See a map of where we're working on the Zambezi.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Brian Richter/TNC (elephant along Zambezi River); © Scott Simon/TNC (Buckets of tilapia, suckers, and tigerfish from the Zambezi River); © Brian Richter/TNC (Cape Buffalo crossing the Zambezi); © David Banks/TNC (Fact Sheet)