Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust (VFWT) offers tourism agents the unique opportunity to arrange guided tours for their guests at our facilities located within Victoria Falls National Park, just 15 minutes from the city center. These one-hour tours provide an engaging and educational experience, highlighting our conservation efforts.
Guests will participate in discussions with our team and view visuals showcasing our initiatives to support local communities, reduce human-wildlife conflict, and promote conservation education. The tour includes a walkthrough of our high-care wildlife rehabilitation center, where visitors can observe our work up close. Guests also have the chance to explore our wildlife research tools and learn about ongoing studies on species such as elephants, lions, and vultures.
The tour continues with a visit to our wildlife disease and forensics laboratory, followed by an introduction to Judge, our critically endangered white-backed vulture ambassador.
Tours are available by prior arrangement and are conducted on-site twice daily, Monday through Friday, and once on Saturdays.
For guests seeking a more in-depth, hands-on experience, VFWT also offers opportunities to visit community projects or participate in fieldwork through our internship program, depending on the season and experience level.
Assisting a Buffalo distressed from a wire snare in Victoria Falls National Park.
VFWT 2024 Impact Report
In 2024 VFWT met one of Southern Africa’s worst-recorded droughts head-on, expanding support for both communities and wildlife through proactive relief and innovation. Our Wildlife Disease lab completed 6,523 diagnostic procedures and our veterinary teams freed 53 wild animals from snares for treatment, while vaccinating 2,118 rural dogs to safeguard human and ecosystem health. Field teams scaled up conflict-mitigation efforts: four new predator-proof mobile bomas now protect 392 cattle (for 79 families), and our Community Guardians responded to 207 conflict incidents – so effectively that no lions were lost to conflict in 2024. In education, VFWT reached 1,221 people (946 students and 275 community members) through school clubs and outreach events, planting the seeds of long-term conservation. The report also highlights science-driven milestones – for example, 11 endangered vultures were GPS-tagged (152 nesting sites surveyed), and 30 black and white rhinos were safely dehorned (with 7 fitted with tracking transmitters) – all critical measures to protect these species.
These data-driven achievements underscore VFWT’s leadership in wildlife protection and community resilience.
We are having a special call to the expatriates of Zimbabwe now based in the UK to be a supporting pillar of our work here at Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust.
