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Africa Geographic – Sioma Ngwezi NP SIOMA NGWEZI RAISING SIOMAZambia’s third-largest national park lies sandwiched between the Zambezi and Kwando rivers as they drain southwards from the Angolan highlands. A tract of completely undeveloped wilderness, Sioma Ngwezi may be almost unheard of, but its inclusion into the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area may well be the catalyst required to trigger its emer- gence. With generous funding from donors and guidance from the Peace Parks Foundation, newly established concessions and camps are helping the park to shake off its reputation as a poachers’ haven and open its doors to adventurous eco- tourists. Stephen Cunliffe set out to discover if the area is, finally, destined for a brighter future. TEXT BY STEPHEN CUNLIFFE • PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHEN CUNLIFFE & MELONIE EVA WWW.AFRICAGEOGRAPHIC.COM 47 SIOMA NGWEZI having already used the last spare tyre, our resourceful guide dashed off into the bush and re- turned with a large woody thorn that he used to plug the hole ir hissed from a hole and mopane belts. (See ‘Confessions of a But now, in our unfortunate predica- the park during the Namibian liberation ABOVE, LEFT Sioma Ngwezi’s birdlife is prolific. Here in the rear left-hand former poacher’ on page 50.) He had ment, would it be sensible to push on struggle and living off the land. The soldiers an African jacana, a common resident in southern Africa’s lightly vegetated waterways, crosses the tyre, bringing our located the remnants of ancient roads deeper into the unknown with no further were followed by refugees from Angola, surface in search of food. vehicle to a juddering and managed to keep our 4x4 vehicle spare parts? The forest fringe lay tantalis- who settled along the Kwando River and halt. It was our third heading deeper into this abandoned wil- ingly close, barely a few kilometres ahead. plundered the park to assuage their hun- ABOVE, RIGHT The horseshoe-shaped Ngonye Falls. puncture of the morn- derness. Despite his efforts, however, To press on was tempting but, after a brief ger. Finally, the local Lozi population PAGE 47 Deceptively docile. Crocodiles are plentiful ing and the wheel- decades of mismanagement and neglect discussion, we accepted the only prudent turned to it for their livelhoods. The wild- in the Zambezi, where they can be safely observed unfriendly terrain had rendered the landscape inhospit- option and retreated to the nearest village life provided a source of food to people from the deck of a river cruiser basking on the sunny banks. threatened to thwart our progress in able, and it had defeated our tyres at an to regroup and carry out repairs. whose crops had failed during times of ASioma Ngwezi, one of Zambia’s least visit- alarming rate. drought and, for them, the bushmeat, ed national parks. Having already used Our quest was to reach the fabled roclaimed in 1972, 5 276-square- ivory and skins promised an alluring the last spare tyre, our resourceful guide rebel base of the South West African kilometre Sioma Ngwezi is the source of income. A torrid era of syndicat- dashed off into the bush and returned People’s Organisation (SWAPO), con- third-largest national park in ed commercial poaching followed. with a large woody thorn that he used to cealed within Lusaka Forest deep inside P Zambia. Combined with the sur- Rampant poaching is just one of the plug the hole. With the hiss silenced, still- the sanctuary. Before even setting foot in rounding 35 000-square-kilometre West problems that face Sioma Ngwezi. Human ness descended as our unlikely crew of Sioma Ngwezi, I had heard the legend of Zambezi Game Management Area, it settlements and land-use activities have adventurers, comprising reformed poach- the giant cooking pot that still stands in forms an enormous conservation area. The sprung up inside its boundaries. During a ers, enterprising tourism operators, keen the old base. The local Lozi people were park is an integral link in the migratory recent Peace Parks Foundation-sponsored naturalists and laid-back Zambian Wildlife divided as to its purpose. Some thought route of wildlife and once offered refuge aerial survey, an astounding 42 villages Authority (ZAWA) scouts, contemplated that the soldiers had used it to torture to beleaguered elephants fleeing the wars were counted inside the park, predom- what to do next. and boil their enemies; others believed it that raged across the border in Angola and inantly along the Kwando River, and a Our reformed-poacher-turned-guide was a receptacle for making bombs. in Namibia’s Caprivi Strip. further 65 were recorded along its edge. Mwape Saingo* had an uncanny know- Oddly enough, nobody even hinted at However, its resources and wildlife Compounding the challenges were an ledge of the park and a rare ability to the fact that it might simply have been have for decades been illegally harvested estimated 237 head of cattle, 129 cultivated * The names of the former poachers have been find routes through even the most used to feed the SWAPO army that used and abused by humans. SWAPO came fields and three illegal timber-harvesting changed to protect their identities. impenetrable-looking teak woodlands to reside in the park. first, establishing its headquarters within operations seen within its borders. 48 AFRICA GEOGRAPHIC • NOVEMBER 2010 WWW.AFRICAGEOGRAPHIC.COM 49 Kafue NP ➚ Zambezi SIOMA NGWEZI ZAMBIA N Kwando Ngonye Falls Today, the general mood of pessimism and tourism potential. In mid-2008, ith repaired tyres and re- Sioma Camp › U Mutemwa about Sioma Ngwezi’s future has been Zambia’s Integrated Development Plan newed enthusiasm we tried › Mutemwa Camp CONFESSIONS OF A replaced by one of optimism. The change (IDP) was adopted to ensure the equitable twice more to reach the Sioma Ngwezi NP was kindled on 7 December 2006, when a and sustainable development and man- Lusaka Forest, but the thick Sesheke FORMER POACHER W Livingstone➚ memorandum of understanding was agement of that country’s component of mopane belts and the demise of a wheel- ANGOLA Katima wape Saingo*, 46, turned his back signed jointly by Angola, Botswana, the TFCA. While acknowledging the park’s bearing forced us to admit defeat. So Mulilo Kazungula M on a life of illegal hunting on 4 No- Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe to coop- potential, the IDP emphasised the need instead of searching for giant boiling pots, vember 2007 when he accepted a job as erate in the establishment of the largest for its controlled development to minim- we decided to explore the Njobwe and NAMIBIA a road-builder. Today, this ex-poacher uses peace park and the world’s biggest conser- ise the impact on the environment. Since Katuli pools in the north-west. Bouncing BOTSWANA his intimate knowledge of the landscape vation area. It was the cornerstone for the then six concessions, varying in size along overgrown game tracks, whipped by to construct the best game-drive routes in Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conser- between 40 000 and 50 000 hectares each, the branches that overhung the route, we Sioma Ngwezi. vation Area (KAZA TFCA), which encom- have been declared and are up for ten- skirted perennial pools and saw regal kudu Driven to killing animals by the lack passes the Okavango and Zambezi river der. Several new gates, access roads and a bulls and herds of skittish impala, as well on the Zambezi River. Camping at either of work in Barotseland, Saingo poached basins, where the borders of the five network of game-viewing tracks have also as diminutive duikers, steenbok and wart- site is a truly spiritual experience. everything from herbivores and elephants nations meet. It is envisaged that the area been identified for development. hogs. After one particularly gruelling day, Despite wildlife numbers being depleted, to lions and leopards. ‘It was so easy to will incorporate 36 national parks, game There are plans to expand the manage- we were rewarded with a superb sighting the variety of surviving species is impres- get hold of AK-47s,’ he explained. ‘Starving reserves, game management areas and ment infrastructure and to construct of a group of sable antelopes and zebras at sive, with elephants, giraffes, eland, Angolans were always fleeing the civil war community conservancies to produce a patrol camps to facilitate the monitoring a waterhole. greater kudu, sable and roan antelopes, across the border. They arrived in Zambia desperate for food and would happily sell continuous sanctuary spanning some of the park and its newly declared wildlife- We camped for three nights at the zebras, lions, spotted hyaenas, African their weapons for 45 000 kwacha (about 287 132 square kilometres. That’s almost recovery zone. A three-way border post, rustic Sioma Bush Camp near Chitobo wild dogs and cheetahs all having been US$9) or even a few buckets of maize. I the same size as Italy. located in the south-west of Sioma Pan on the park’s boundary, although recently sighted. sold the bushmeat in the local villages and Sioma Ngwezi is the last untouched Ngwezi, is also envisaged to speed up tour- we could have opted for a temporary While their presence is evidence of the towns, but ivory was taken to Nangweshi and undeveloped section within the KAZA ist movements between Namibia, Angola tented camp erected in the Katuli Pools park’s potential to bounce back, it will where a big tusk would fetch 100 000 TFCA and has enormous conservation and Zambia. area by the owners of Mutemwa, a lodge take some time for Sioma Ngwezi’s kwacha (US$21). I have personally killed at least 20 elephants. I did not like it but when you have no job, your crops fail and hunger makes you desperate, then ivory fetches lots of money.’ the poachers Saingo is adamant that ZAWA cannot solve the poaching epidemic alone.
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