This meant that the park was protected from mass tourism and now remains one of the few untouched wilderness areas left in Africa.

[1] The park gently slopes from the Zambezi Escarpment down to the river, straddling two main woodland savannah ecoregions distinguished by the dominant types of tree, Miombo and Mopane: Southern Miombo woodlands on higher ground in the north, and Zambezian and Mopane woodlands on lower slopes in the south.

An attraction of the Lower Zambezi Park and its surrounding GMA is its remote location.

[4][5] In May 2023, Mwembeshi Resources were ordered to pause mining at the site by the Zambia Environmental Management Agency and the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment due to their breaching conditions.

[6][7] Conservationists stated that it would negatively affect the tourism industry of the nation as well as the various animal species and the Zambezi River if the mining was to go ahead.