The north-east tip of the Moremi Game Reserve, Khwai Concession is an area where evergreen trees line wide floodplains and made up of sweeping grasslands and riparian forests. The Khwai Concession is 1800 sq km (180 000 hectare) and is an area which is situated in the north-eastern Okavango Delta.
The Khwai Concession was formed by the local Khwai villagers and is managed by the Khwai Development Trust. The area used to be a hunting concession, but is now actively managed as a conservation area. The villagers took over the area when they moved out of the Moremi region when the Moremi Game Reserve was formed. The local community now runs eco-tourism initiatives, actively conserve the environment and manage the wildlife in the concession. It is a large area dominated by Mopane forests. This vast area boasts excellent density and diversity of both predator and prey species with Leopard sightings consistently good. There are fairly stable populations of other large predators such as Lion, Spotted Hyena and African Wild Dogs. From an ontological perspective, Saddle-billed storks, Wattled cranes and many species of kingfishers and bee-eaters are common.
The Khwai River flows through the concession – it is the first major water source that animals migrating down from the Linyanti concession encounter and there is always a high concentration of game along the river.