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A male leopard, well over five years of age, walks past a camera trap near Panthera's camp. Kafue National Park, Zambia in May, 2023.
In a remarkable comeback after enduring half a century of poaching, leopard and lion populations have begun rebounding in Africa’s third-largest national park, according to a new report from Panthera and partners. Four years of rigorous counter-poaching operations employing game-changing conservation technologies, including the use of SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool), EarthRanger and innovative ‘vulture sentinels,’ across Zambia’s Kafue National Park (KNP) have helped triple the leopard density in southern Kafue and increase and stabilize leopard and lion populations across the Park. Daily coordinated operations were fully led by Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), with support from Panthera and multiple partners.
Credit Panthera/Ross de Bruin