Our Mission is to teach Zambian children and communities the value of wildlife and their environment so they may be conserved for present and future generations.

Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust is a Zambian registered charitable trust (number 41317), founded in 1998 by Steve and Anna Tolan (UK). Chipembele runs extensive, inspirational, community appropriate programmes, teaching local schoolchildren and communities to protect and conserve the local wildlife and natural environment that is their natural heritage. These programmes focus on the rapidly developing rural communities adjacent to the main entrance to South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

The most serious challenges the organisation addresses are therefore associated with wildlife and communities competing for the same land and resources. These include poaching, over-fishing, bush fires, human-wildlife conflict, habitat loss and deforestation. For the children in particular there is an emphasis on outdoor learning and addressing environmental and wildlife issues that directly affect them and their families. This includes activities such as tree planting schemes, human-wildlife conflict solutions, environmental campaigns and field trips.