Within the Park there are a series of pans, some of which are kept continuously filled by water pumped from boreholes during the dry season.

African elephant and Cape buffalo are present in large numbers towards the end of the dry season when water is scarce elsewhere.

A special species to the Kazuma Pan National Park is the oribi, a small antelope, which is rather rare in Zimbabwe.

There are a series of seasonally flooded pans in the south-west of the park attracts a wide variety of waterfowl.

The pan systems are also ideal habitat to a large variety of water birds, with a number of species including storks, crowned cranes, stilts, cormorants, ducks and kingfishers occurring throughout the area.