Green Safaris is rapidly becoming one of the leading providers of luxury safaris in the world. What sets them apart is their unwavering commitment to pioneering sustainable practices, technology, and immersive experiences, where being ecologically motivated is not just an ethical decision but a powerful means of enhancing the guest experience. With Green Safaris, Eco is Luxury.
The collection comprises Tongabezi Lodge, Sindabezi Island Camp and Tangala House (Victoria Falls); Ila Safari Lodge (Kafue); Shawa Luangwa Camp (South Luangwa); Chisa Busanga Camp (Busanga Plains); Sausage Tree Camp and Potato Bush Camp (Lower Zambezi) and Kaya Mawa Lodge (Lake Malawi). Each property is designed to pay a unique homage to its environment, community, and wildlife. Explore with Green Safaris, and you will never experience Africa the same way twice.
Green Safaris is also the exclusive provider of activities to Livingstone Island, where their highly trained guides take guests across the waterfall to experience the famous Devil‘s and Angel’s Pools. The Green Safaris Collection is now an all-encompassing dream itinerary for discerning travellers seeking the most pristine and wild locations and experiences in Zambia and Malawi.
The Green Team is determined to make it economically viable for pristine wild spaces, and the captivating wildlife within them, to remain protected. They are pioneers of the ‘Silent Safari’ – (with environmentally powered vehicles extending beyond e-Cruisers (electric game vehicles) to e-Boats and e-Mountain Bikes) - and have a dedicated Green Safaris Conservation Foundation, which gives 2.5% of invested capital annually into Community Development in the local neighbourhoods.
Green Safaris continues to innovate to ensure its camps become known globally as pinnacles and pioneers in sustainability and a natural choice for those seeking a high-end safari that gives back as much as it delights.
Green Safaris is driven by its passion to preserve the most pristine areas of African nature and to share this passion by offering unique experiences offering Intimate encounters in the most beautiful and remote locations.
As the pioneers of the Silent Safari in Zambia, extending solar-power to even their e-Cruisers, e-Boats, and e-Mountain bikes, Green Safaris is constantly determined to push the boat (or game vehicle, or bike) out a little further when it comes to using eco-innovations to heighten their luxury guest experience.
Green Safaris has been on a mission to vaccinate all of our teams across Zambia and Malawi. Since each of our properties is hidden in handpicked in wild, isolated locations, this has been a fun challenge.
The Green Safaris Team has been hard at work behind the scenes since they, on the 17th of September, announced the new property Chisa Busanga Camp set to open in June 2020. Here is a preview of one of the stunning spacious Bird’s Nests raised up in the tree tops overlooking the beautiful Busanga Plains in Zambia.
November 2019: Green Safaris, the pioneering and passionately eco-friendly new safari operator, is delighted to announce the opening of its fourth lodge, Shawa Luangwa Camp. Located in the heart of the Lupanda GMA, on the banks of the Luangwa River, it is ideally located to explore both the Park and the Nsefu sector. The Camp opens 1st June 2020. Green Safaris currently operates Ila Safari Lodge in the center of the Kafue National Park and Kaya Mawa, on Likoma Island in Malawi and will expand its portfolio with Chisa Busanga Camp and Shawa Luangwa Camp by mid 2020.
Green Safaris announces the opening of its third lodge, Chisa Busanga Camp (aka “the Nest”), located in the heart of the magnificent Busanga Plains, in the Northern part of the Kafue National Park in Zambia. The Camp is expected to open 1st June 2020.
The camp lies on a beautiful island in the heart of the Busanga Plains, overlooking the massive vast floodplains and dambo’sthat that teem with wildlifewildlife and birds.
Green Safaris would love to invite agents for a Fam-trip to either Ila Safari Lodge in the Kafue National Park, Zambia or Kaya Mawa at Likoma Island in Malawi, or both. With Indaba recently changed to May 2-4, perhaps this could be a good opportunity to visit the Green Safaris properties, pre We Are Africa.
Their Mission: To work with community and conservation partners in the protection of the wildlife and habitats of the South Luangwa ecosystem.
Their Vision: The long term survival of wildlife and habitats in South Luangwa under the custodianship of the Zambian people.
Since officially registering in 2003, Conservation South Luangwa (CSL) has worked in partnership with Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) on the frontline of wildlife conservation and human wildlife coexistence in the South Luangwa Valley. We work to protect the 1,400,000 hectares of largely intact wilderness in eastern Zambia that make up the South Luangwa National Park, and a network of surrounding Game Management Areas. The Luangwa Valley is home to over 60 species of mammal and 450 species of bird, including the endemic Thornicroft Giraffe and Cookson’s Wildebeest and high densities of lion, leopard and wild dog as well as being Zambia’s elephant stronghold.
CSL practices a multi-faceted approach to wildlife resource management and protection, working in collaboration with DNPW to implement counter trade/trafficking measures including anti-poaching foot patrols, aerial surveillance, sniffer dog detection and tracking work, alongside direct community engagement with people living alongside the extraordinary wildlife of the South Luangwa Valley.
Their primary “catscape” in Zambia forms part of Panthera's “supersite” spanning across the massive 520,000 km2 Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). Here, their activities and interventions are strategically integrated to amplify conservation outcomes across protected area boundaries and regional and country borders. Within Zambia, Panthera project sites are focused in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem (GKE), which is comprised of Kafue National Park and surrounding Game Management Areas, the Kwando Wildlife Dispersal Area (which includes Sioma Ngwezi National Park in the southwestern corner of Zambia) and extends onwards to the Luengue-Luiana Intensive Protection Zone in Luengue-Luiana National Park in the southeast of Angola. All of Panthera’s programs in Zambia are in support of and in strong partnership with the Statutory Authority Department of National Parks and Wildlife Zambia (DNPW) and respective communities.
Their work focuses on protecting source populations, minimizing mortalities at the human-wildlife interface and restoring and protecting connectivity between wild cat populations. Panthera currently support 17 anti-poaching teams, two dedicated lion monitoring and protected teams and one leopard monitoring team across Kafue National Park and surrounding Game Management Areas. These teams operate within four intensive protection zones and from four dedicated anti-poaching protection and support bases. We use SMART and Earth Ranger technology for adaptive management and conducting wildlife monitoring across the whole system to ensure our adaptive management activities are impactful and evidence-based. Our “Halo Approach” delivers focal protection for key individuals and groups to boost survival and recruitment during times of challenge. This includes two lion monitoring and protection teams.
At the heart of Project Luangwa is the belief in empowering communities through the benefits of tourism.
South Luangwa dazzles in its beauty and serenity, and is the most densely wildlife populated area in Zambia. While the sound of monkeys chittering in the treetops as a wake up call, or the echoing roar of a lion signalling dusk, are both magical and captivating, the relationship between all of the Luangwa's inhabitants is not without difficulties.
On establishing Project Luangwa in 2010, some of the valley's tour operators realised the need to empower communities and show the incredible benefits that wildlife and an unspoiled habitat brings to the region. By using a portion of the proceeds from each visitor, Project Luangwa seeks to reaffirm the importance of tourism in action.
At the cornerstone of our beliefs is improving standards of health and education, providing a platform to help raise rural areas out of poverty. As part of this program, Project Luangwa has or seeks to:
Constructed and built infrastructure for 14 schools, which we continue to support. Equating to upwards of 4,500 children in education each year.
Improve educational impact through our four ‘Edulution’ centers by providing higher standards of numeracy to 1200 pupils.
Through our menstrual hygiene program we have supported thousands of young women with safe, clean and washable sanitary products and education.
Our sponsorship program supports around 150 children through secondary education each year, and 25 students through tertiary.
Our 20 gender support clubs across five chiefdoms inspire, support and empower hundreds of young men and women, and help to break down barriers of inequality.
Supporting the communities and chiefdoms of South Luangwa through this crisis by providing hygiene facilities in schools, and we are beginning to support through face mask production
Despite losing 70% of our funding from tourism and having to close our shop due to the lack of visitor footfall, we are continuing to support vulnerable artisans with a living wage and are diversifying the workshop by making face masks.
Improve efforts in health, conservation and habitat protection by bringing safe, clean eco-stoves to thousands of households (a programme due to begin in late 2020).
The Green Safaris Foundation was established to generate and deploy community project funding to support local community development, wildlife conservation and ecosystem preservation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Our objectives are implemented and achieved through various actions taken where Green Safaris properties operate in Zambia and Malawi. These objectives are to support:
- Conservation of Africa’s wildlife and ecosystems, focusing on the most pristine wilderness areas in Zambia and Malawi.
- Empowerment and development of local communities through the collaborative building of sustainable livelihoods, focusing on marginalised groups such as women and children.
Tongabezi Trust School was born in 1996 from a desire to provide underprivileged rural Zambian children, living within walking distance of the school, with a sound and holistic education in a bid to improve the quality of their lives.
Their vision is to develop the child as a whole and help them gain greater knowledge and understanding of educational and social issues, so they are able to make informed choices and have the chance of bright, promising futures.
The Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) is a non-profit Zambian-registered trust working in close collaboration with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) and dedicated to conserving large carnivores and the ecosystems they reside in through a three pronged approach of Conservation Science, Conservation Action, and Conservation Capacity.
The success of this work fundamentally rests on our diverse and effective collaborations with local, national and international partners, agencies, organizations and institutions that collectively provide the expertise, resources and energy to address the myriad conservation challenges facing Zambia and the region.
The Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) is a non-profit Zambian-registered trust working in close collaboration with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) and dedicated to conserving large carnivores and the ecosystems they reside in through a three pronged approach of Conservation Science, Conservation Action, and Conservation Capacity.
The success of this work fundamentally rests on our diverse and effective collaborations with local, national and international partners, agencies, organizations and institutions that collectively provide the expertise, resources and energy to address the myriad conservation challenges facing Zambia and the region.
The Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) is a non-profit Zambian-registered trust working in close collaboration with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) and dedicated to conserving large carnivores and the ecosystems they reside in through a three pronged approach of Conservation Science, Conservation Action, and Conservation Capacity.
The success of this work fundamentally rests on our diverse and effective collaborations with local, national and international partners, agencies, organizations and institutions that collectively provide the expertise, resources and energy to address the myriad conservation challenges facing Zambia and the region.
