Map of southern and central Africa showing countries: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa. Lesotho and Eswatini are also marked.

General Information

Located in the heart of Africa, Zambia is a landlocked country of approximately 750 000 sq km and shares borders with 8 other countries.

Zambia is a regional leader in conservation with over 30% of its land mass being land set aside for wildlife and conservation, this comprises of 20 National Parks and 36 Game Management Areas (GMAs)

Famous national parks in Zambia are the Kafue National Park and the South and North Luangwa National Parks.

Hunting in Zambia is conducted largely in the Game Management Areas as well as private estates, both fenced and open.

Map of Zambia showing national parks, wildlife areas, and game management zones, with surrounding countries like Angola, Tanzania, and Mozambique highlighted. Includes legends for boundaries and geographical features.

Hunting in Zambia

Zambia holds diverse and unique hunting opportunities thanks to its sheer size and incredibly diverse range of habitats. Most hunting opportunities in Zambia are in unfenced Game Management Areas (GMA), that are located adjacent to the countries national parks. There are also a host of open private estates that border the parks or GMAs that also hold big and dangerous game, then lastly there are fenced private estates smaller in size but with impressive density of animals for the most part.

Game Management areas are leased by outfitters who manage the area and have rights to hunt the quota, these outfitters are responsible for building camps, maintaining roads, supporting anti poaching and conducting the safari hunting.

Thinking of hunting in Zambia?

See below our list of approved outfitters and professional hunters.