Stewards of the original
home of the
walking safari.

Corby Robertson III first stood on the bank of the Luangwa at thirteen years old. The river, the elephants materialising out of the mist, the whole valley operating on a logic entirely its own — it never left him. Forty years later he came back, not as a guest, but as a steward. That boyhood connection to this place is the reason Chibembe exists as a protected wildlife reserve today.

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Brooke Robertson’s passion is for the people beside the wild. The children of Mwanya Chiefdom, the women building lives in one of Zambia’s most remote areas. She is present in the chiefdom — not at arm’s length — drilling water wells, supporting schools, building the trust that makes conservation possible.

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Their shared mission is simple and difficult in equal measure: make the communities of this valley stronger, and in doing so give every person beside this wilderness a reason to want it to last. Wildlife endures where the people around it have a stake in its survival. That is Norman Carr’s founding principle. It is the principle Chibembe is built on.