Zambia
Zambia has 19 national parks and 36 adjacent Game Management Areas. Collectively, they cover 23 million hectares or about 30 per cent of the country and this does not include private game farms or ranches that decorate our lands.

The GMAs or concessions are sufficiently large enough to include a variety of habitats with most big game species available. The national parks function as game reservoirs for surrounding areas through the natural movement of animals from areas of high density into areas of low density. Most GMAs are between 3,000 and 6,000 square kilometers, although the largest exceed 10,000 square kilometers.

Game farms attract a lot of interest and offer old-style hospitality, not to mention an amazing array of species and wing shooting opportunities.

Under Zambia’s new wildlife policy, local communities along with the safari operators are responsible for the management of GMAs, regulated and supervised by ZAWA. The main economic benefit arising from wildlife management of the GMAs is revenue from fees for commercial safari hunting.

In 2002 ZAWA leased the concession hunting rights to Zambian-registered safari hunting operators for a period of 10 years; these operators are responsible for both managing the GMAs and protecting the interests of the resident communities.