Tresford Mulindwa is a hunter, part of an essential and proud tradition.


    A middleman makes deliveries of bush meat in the capitol city, Lusaka. A primal desire for wild meat makes animals a target for both table and trade.


    Like enormous matchsticks, overflowing bags of charcoal line a roadway—environmental erosion—first the animals, then the trees.


    Jealous is poison. But it doesn’t stop village conflict even though your neighbor is only making pennies on a cup of oil or sliver of soap.


    Outside the capital city of Lusaka, Saturday is the day to bury children. Three fourths of Zambians have lost a loved one to AIDS.


    Sometimes there are only prayers to keep one from harm. Here in the village of Chabala—the presence of missionary zeal.


    Pushed together by need, elephants and people collide. A mother and infant barely escaped before their home was destroyed by an elephant searching for food.


    It is the women of Salamo village who have inspired the shift from the dangerous bush meat trade to sustainable agriculture.


    At the Chipembele Wildlife Center, local children learn about the agonizing death of a poacher’s snare.


    Frontline troops in the battle against poaching practice their shooting skills knowing their future prey could be anything from a charging elephant to their own cousin.


    Workers from Mutinondo Wilderness Lodge buy produce grown by local village women—a hedge against their husbands who are poachers.


    Wildlife guide Kennedy Nkoma nervously watches mother lions circle a buffalo herd and the tourists in his care.


    At Chileaba School in North Luangwa Park, children learn about the black rhinos they will never see. Both the rhinos and 75,000 elephants were slaughtered for their ivory.


    More valuable than cattle, this zebra was darted, crated and moved to a personal game ranch.


    Healthy conservation depends on big game hunters who come to Zambia for the “big cats,” buffalo and once protected elephants.


    Senior scouts at Shiwa Ng’andu game ranch helped hunters from America track the rare sititunga.


    Pay day at Shiwa Ng’andu Estate where Charlie Harvey and his staff manage cattle, crops and wild game—a delicate balance.


    Brian Mukuka, 23, is in charge of all the orphan lambs at the Shiwa Ng’andu game ranch. He lost both his parents to HIV.