KALOVIA ISLAND
The community’s
gift. 2,500 acres.
Ancient habitat.
Kalovia Island is part of the Chibembe Wildlife Reserve — 2,500 acres granted by Chieftainess Mwanya and the Mwanya community in 2025. Not negotiated. Earned across two years of sustained community investment.
Kalovia lies north of the confluence — in the full path of the annual silt flood that renews the entire system above it. Its grasslands, waterholes, old growth, and ancient tree groves all benefit from the same annual renewal that makes this whole area so extraordinarily productive for wildlife.
THE WILDLIFE
Buffalo. Lion.
The ancient
choreography.
The buffalo herds favour Kalovia. Silt-fed open grassland and dense cover, reliable waterholes, relative absence of disturbance. Buffalo and lion linked as inevitably as prey and predator always are. Kalovia is one of the most reliable places in the reserve to find both.
“The same relationship Norman Carr first built with Chief Mwanya fifty years earlier — honoured again. Kalovia Island is the proof.”
The Community - 2025