Category: Zambia

Zambia Safaris Limited was originally operated in Kalomo as Zambia Safaris and was run by two local ex-senior members of the Games Department, Ron Kidson and Keith Rowse. They held concessions in west Zambia adjoining the Kafue and Zambezi rivers. In 1965 Zambia Safaris Ltd inaugurated game hunting when the…

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TG Travel (Turnbull, Gibson & Co., (Zambia) Ltd) was a travel agency located in the Carswells Building, President Ave, in Ndola. It also had premises at Chingola, Kitwe, Luanshya, Lusaka and Mufulira. It appears to have been established in 1965. References Owen’s Commerce and Travel and International Register (1974)

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Thornicroft’s giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti), also known as the Luangwa giraffe, is a subspecies of giraffe. It is geographically isolated, occurring only in Zambia’s South Luangwa Valley. The ecotype was originally named after Harry Scott Thornicroft, a commissioner in what was then North-Eastern Rhodesia and later Northern Rhodesia. Postcards 1969 –…

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A African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) African Lion (Pathera leo) Angoni Cattle B Baobab Tree Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) C Carmine Bee-Eater (Merops nubicoides) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx) Cookson’s Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus cooksoni) Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) D Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa) Desert Warthog (Phacochoerus anthiopicus)…

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The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is one of two living African elephant species. It is the largest living terrestrial animal. It is distributed across 37 African countries and inhabits forests, grasslands and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land. It is a social mammal,…

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The African Craft Village, Livingstone, was built in 1960 by the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum on a site allocated by the Victoria Falls Trust and the Municipal Council of Livingstone with assistance from the trust and small grant from the Sporting and Cultural Fund. It was originally known as the Open Air…

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On 27 May 1938, three reserves were established in the valley of the Luangwa River: North Luangwa Game Reserve, Lukusuzi Game Reserve and South Luangwa Reserve. In 1960, Norman Carr, a former elephant control officer of the Game and Tsetse Department of Northern Rhodesia, created the Luangwa Valley National Park.…

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Cairo Road is the main thoroughfare of Lusaka and the principal business, retail and service centre of the city. It was named to reflect the link in Cecil Rhodes’ dream of a Cape to Cairo Road through British colonies in Africa. Commerce & Industry Eagle Travel Ltd Postcards 1965 –…

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The Angoni cattle are found in the Eastern Province of Zambia and adjoining areas of Malawi between the Lungwa River in the west and Lake Malawi in the east spreading southwards reaching northwestern Mozambique. These cattle are today known as Angoni in Zambia, In Zambia, the Angoni are confined between…

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The common eland (Taurotragus oryx), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus Taurotragus. It is the second largest antelope in the world, being slightly smaller on…

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