The giant conservation area covers approximately 280,000 sq. km linking existing parks, game management areas and conservancies, and will span parts of all five countries, creating the largest park on earth, roughly the size of Italy. Its primary tourism focus is the major rivers of the five countries and the Delta.
Establishment of KaZa is being fast-tracked as an integral part of tourism development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Priority is being given to establishment of the park ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Championships.
KaZa is expected to draw large numbers of visitors and create sustainable incomes and employment in the various countries in the long term.
The park is also expected to bring to the tourism industry many of the benefits implicit to the SADC Free Trade Area, such as removal of barriers and tariffs. The Free Trade Area was announced by current SADC chair, President Levi Mwanawasa of Zambia, and is expected to come into operation in 2008.
The park is expected to cover the following existing attractions and conservancies: Mudumu and Mamili National Parks (Namibia); Bwabwata National Park (Namibia); Chobe National Park (Botswana); Okavango Delta (Botswana); Hwange National Park (Zimbabwe); Victoria Falls
Mosi-a-Tunya National Parks and Zambezi National Park (Zimbabwe and Zambia); Kazuma Pan National Park (Zimbabwe); Kafue National Park (Zambia); West Zambezi Game Management Area (Zambia); parts of south-eastern Angola; Luiana Partial Reserve; Mukosso Luenge, Coutadas; Luiana Coutadas; Longa-Mavinga Coutadas in (Angola); and parts of the Zambezi River up to Kariba including Matusadona and Chizarira (Zimbabwe).