page_title: Wildlife of Zambia
section_title: Animals in protected areas
hierarchical_section_title: Wildlife of Zambia / Overview / Animals in protected areas
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing the twenty national parks of Zambia
context_page_description: The wildlife of Zambia refers to the natural flora and fauna of Zambia. More specialized articles on particular groups are linked from here.
context_section_description: Five out of 20 national parks have lost most of their wildlife due to a lack of management. Of the remaining 15, two exist primarily for features other than wildlife (Nyika Plateau and Victoria Falls), and the rest have reasonably good wildlife resources despite some poaching.
  National parks protect 6.4% of the country, and all have larger game management areas (GMAs) as buffer zones around them in which hunting is subject to regulation, as it is in forest reserves which have additional regulations about land clearing and timber harvesting. Adequate patrolling and the enforcing of regulations has always been a problem, and illegal hunting and bush clearing still happens within protected areas.
  GMAs cover 15.6% of the country and forest reserves cover 7.2%, so 29.2% of the country is protected in theory (based on 1992 figures).
caption: Map showing Zambia's 20 national parks.
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