Wilderness Landscapes Zambia, Carbon Ark and The Rise Fund, hereafter referred to as “Wilderness”, is a 40-year-old, award-winning ecotourism pioneer in Africa, with 60 lodges across the continent and over 2.3 million hectares of land under its protection. Wilderness, in partnership with the Government Republic of Zambia (GRZ) and the local communities, is proposing to undertake a large-scale REDD+ landscape project in combination with ecological restoration programmes.

The main activities will involve landscape protection and ecological restoration (afforestation, reforestation and revegetation, commonly referred to “ARR”), including protection and restoration of local wildlife population in partnership with local communities. The proposed programme is a carbon storage and sequestration undertaking which aims at protecting millions of hectares of forest in the four Game Management Areas (GMAs) around Zambia’s Kafue National Park, namely: Lunga-Luswishi, Kasonso-Busanga, Namwala, and Mumbwa GMAs.