Through Sustainable Tourism
Our Story
ZAZU SUSTAINABLE SAFARIS BOTSWANA
‘’We are Protecting Nature Through Sustainable Tourism’’
Profits from our safari activities are channelled to various projects of sustainable development. We educate the local people to protect their own lands and the wildlife. Our most prominent initiative in educating the community in conservation is the hospitality and tourism training project in Maun.
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
An important part of our biodiversity are the fauna and flora. Our failure as humans to protect the flora and fauna will lead into experiencing the major climatical changes that we see all over the world. That is why at Zazu we have taken a step to ensure that tourists who come on safari with us are well inducted and educated on conservation and global warming issues. Upon your arrival and throughout your safari our guides will conduct a thorough interpretation of the area to be visited. Our local guides have been extensively trained to ensure that they impart their deep knowledge and passion for environment to our guests while at the same maintaining and keeping a healthy check not to damage the environment. Topics covered during your induction includes;
The Okavango delta, Botswana Cultural heritage, Tsodilo hills painting, Moremi game reserve biodiversity, Makgadidikgadi salts pans, Elephants management, Communities and Tourism involvement. Conservation in Botswana.
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Do-Good, an Environment Investment
Our initiative to educate young children community people about conserving the environment in which they live is a good example of a do-good, as an environment investment. During the tourism low season, Our guides visits schools in communities living in wildlife management areas and conduct lectures and teachings on conservation.
Community Educational Trips
This is a shocking fact: most rural communities that live their entire lives bordering National Parks and game reserves in Botswana have never been on a safari before. More likely than not, they have a contentious relationship with large wildlife, who destroy their crops and kill their livestock. Meanwhile, thousands of tourists come from all around the world and pay a lot of money each year to gaze at wildlife that share the same territory as these local communities. Zazu epic safaris organizes tour trips for these communities to educate them and expose them to tourism.
School Educational Trips
Most rural schools in Botswana cannot afford to take their students on educational field trips due to harsh conditions in the area. Most families are subsistence farmers who don’t have any extra funds to support extra-curricular activities. Conservation education and a positive connection to wildlife is key to instilling conservation values, especially among the youth in poverty stricken, rural areas of Botswana.
After the classroom session, the students have a chance to visit, learn and interact with some of the tour operators in the area.
The best moments however come when they climb into a game viewer land cruiser to breathe in all the beauty of nature that surround them. You would see the look in their faces as they come into close quarters with the wildlife, the fear and mistrust that exists between the two. Although they live in close proximity with these animals the relationship is somewhat suspicious and withheld.
Profitable Business is The Key to Sustainability
How can you help us make a difference?
Spread the word
Build awareness and engage in social media by liking, sharing and commenting our content
Travel with us
Book a safari with Zazu and you are already contributing to conservation. Volunteer to come and teach conservation
Sponsor a student
Sponsor a needy kid to undertake a tourism course at career dreams centre. This will in turn help them to find employment in the tourism industry and be able to support their sibling’s and become an ambassador for conservation