Taonga
(she/her)

Habitat Connections Project Officer (ZAMBIA)

Taonga Mwale

Taonga Mwale is a wildlife ecologist with a background in both conservation field research and eco-tourism. She graduated from The Copperbelt University with a B.Sc. degree in Wildlife Management and is currently based in Lusaka, working with Bats without Borders as the Habitat Connections Project Officer.

Taonga spent time working in Kasanka National Park, home to the world’s largest mammal migration of the African straw-colored fruit bats. Her camp was less than 100 meters from the Mushitu forest where the bats roost! While there, she managed the field camp for the Kasanka Baboon Project, studying a troop of Kinda baboons (Papio kindae).

Taonga has also worked in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, along the Zambezi River and near the breathtaking Victoria Falls—locally known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (“The Smoke That Thunders”). She worked as a manager with Wilderness Destinations, focusing on eco-tourism in a park that’s also home to a small population of endangered White Rhinos (Ceratotherium simum).​

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