Secret Safaris: Little-Known National Parks in Africa

Some of Africa’s most exciting new destinations are in the wildest corners thanks to an ambitious conservation non-profit. Here’s why you should add Rwanda, Zambia and even Chad to your travel bucket list

MOST PEOPLE ON their first great African safari tend to flock to South Africa, Kenya and increasingly Botswana. Chad and the Central African Republic aren’t usually the first stop, or even the fourth. But African Parks, a Johannesburg-based nonprofit, is endeavoring to attract more daring wildlife lovers to lesser-known pockets of the continent.

Founded in 2000, the NGO has been tasked by nine African countries to take over existing national parks and protected areas that have been ravaged by poaching and deforestation....