As before, and with each of these updates, I send my best wishes to you and hope that you are well. To those in Northern European nations which are entering lock-down once more, I wish you all the best with the coming months. Zambia is [...]

While international travel to Zambia is open, many people's personal situations, their home nations' restrictions and the risks of travelling across the globe have continued to depress tourist numbers to Zambia. I have researched the option of running a couple of photo safaris towards the [...]

As always, this monthly update from Zambia comes with the sincere wish that you and your families are well and weathering the storm of COVID with social isolation and the impending fear of a second "lock-down". As always, the discussion continues about why COVID appears [...]

Conservation and Tourism go hand in hand; conservation efforts protect the wildlife and natural places that tourists wish to visit...and tourism provides the justification and funding for conserving wild areas. But COVID which has entirely frozen the tourism and travel industry, has heaped massive challenges [...]

It's been a while since I wrote an update from Zambia. Apologies for my silence. In part this is due to being busy with photoshoots (for local companies and NGOs), in part due to a wonderful walking expedition that I joined (follow my Instagram from [...]

Greetings from Zambia, where the weather gods have certainly decided that winter has come to an end! Temperatures by day are creeping into the high 30s and night-times are warmer, requiring a blanket only in the early hours of the morning. It seems ridiculous to [...]

COVID-19 is affecting nearly every part of our planet. Even nature, which cannot contract COVID, is impacted by the loss of livelihoods in wildlife areas and resultant poaching pressure. Conservation South Luangwa holds the line and provides law enforcement support to the Department for National [...]

I wrote in a previous article about the impact of COVID-19 and cutting off the USD 30 million of foreign funds that flow into the Luangwa Valley each year. This has been felt keenly by the tourism operators already (in the form of postponed and [...]

Throughout the course of the COVID-19 journey, my guests have repeatedly asked me about the people of the South Luangwa. How will they cope with the virus? What are the healthcare facilities like in the surrounding area? How will their livelihoods be affected by the [...]

With all the floods that have been troubling the Luangwa Valley, I have not been as active on my blog as I would have liked. Apologies for that. I had a chance to visit the National Park over the weekend, and I trialled my new [...]