Reconnecting Elephant Habitats in Africa: Inside the Malawi-Zambia Corridor Project

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has restored a historic wildlife corridor linking protected areas across the Malawi-Zambia border; poaching in Kasungu National Park has been nearly stopped through ranger training and law enforcement, allowing 263 elephants to be relocated from Liwonde in 2022—the first elephants to return to eastern Zambia in over 50 years—while IFAW's Room to Roam initiative now uses satellite collars on 31 elephant matriarchs and mobile response teams to mitigate human-wildlife conflict.