Liuwa Plain: The Litunga’s Hunting Ground, People & Cattle

Lozi people fishing with traditional baskets on the Liuwa Plain as wildebeest graze across the floodplains of western Zambia.

Liuwa Plain was protected by a Lozi king in the 1880s, long before Zambia made it a national park. Today more than 10,000 people and their cattle still live inside it. This is the story of the Litunga’s hunting ground, why the Lozi never left, and why that is the reason Liuwa survived.

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