Bangweulu Wetlands: History, People & Wildlife

Bangweulu Wetlands title graphic with a shoebill emblem over a herd of lechwe on a golden floodplain at sunrise

Bangweulu Wetlands is Zambia’s community-owned wilderness, a vast floodplain where the water meets the sky. Here is its story, from Livingstone’s last journey to the fishermen who now guard the shoebill’s nests. It is also home to the endemic Bangweulu lechwe, and cheetahs returned here after almost a century.

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