What We Represent

Zambezi Elite Explorers is a Zambian fully owned tour operator whose mandate is to showcase Zambia and Africa at large as the best tourist destination. We are an eco-friendly entity and we deliver our services cognizant of the imperative of natural preservation and conservation.

We are fully African and the advantage of so comes with the competence of telling a full African story.

Sustainability

"How your safari helps people and wildlife"

Thank you for considering an African safari for your next holiday!

You might not know this, but wildlife tourism is incredibly important to protect Africa’s incredibly vulnerable biodiversity. In fact, in many countries, tourist money is what keeps the animals safe, locals employed and habitats intact. 

Wildlife tourism brings with it economic benefits, which support local communities. When wildlife provides business opportunities, it can help residents value the importance of keeping their natural assets intact and healthy.

Eco-tourism prevents ecosystem degradation by creating more sustainable livelihoods for local communities, particularly those in rural areas. Jobs as guides, lodge managers, or kitchen chefs offer alternative income sources to environmentally-destructive activities such as logging, slash-and-burn agriculture, or poaching.

Zambezi Elite Explorers partners with many eco-tourism operators all across the African continent. Some of the key values we look for when selecting our partners:

- Small number of people on a tour/rooms in a lodge

- Minimised impact on environment

- Direct financial benefits for conservation

- Empowerment for local communities (e.g. education, job creation)

- Alternative activities low impact activities offered (e.g. canoeing, bush walks)

- Sustainable practices such as no plastic use, solar energy production, homegrown foods

Some of our partners are even involved in their own anti-poaching and conservation efforts. Here, a direct donation is often automatically included in your stay.

We strongly believe in small group, low impact adventure safaris in far-flung off-the-beaten-track destinations with partners of ours that run the small family and locally owned businesses. We DONT support mass tourism, crowded animal sightings, unethical drivers/guides and over-utilization of wilderness areas.

How your safari helps people and wildlife

- Park Fees – your national park fees and conservation levies are directly funding the employment of anti-poaching staff, their equipment and efforts to curb poaching.

- Employment – the safari camps you visit employ a multitude of staff from guides, chefs and waitors to operations, reservations and marketing – all of whom in turn support their families.

- Education – this can be in the form of education through employment where staff are trained new skills and work their way up the ranks, or through the funding of local schools and teacher salaries that many of our partners support.

- Biodiversity – oftentimes wildlife tourism is the only shield that stands in the way of habitat loss through human encroachment. If local communities don’t directly benefit from wild places they will utilize the land otherwise eg. farmland, logging or mining – all of which are catastrophic for biodiversity.

- Presence – just being out there in these wilderness areas on activities is enough to deter poachers from the area with the risk of being spotted. There is a clear benefit to anti-poaching efforts simply by being present in an area.