Safari & Wildlife

In 2011, rangers walking the floodplains of southeastern Chad counted exactly one elephant calf under the age of three. National Geographic reports that nine years earlier, more than 4,000 elephants …

For years, the safari industry treated Africa’s rainy months as a discount bin for travellers who could not afford the real season. That thinking has not aged well. A green …

The flood arrives in winter. That single inversion tells you everything different about the Okavango Delta. While the rest of Botswana bakes through its dry season, between June and August, …

Most travellers who decide to see Africa’s game reserves book the Kruger National Park. It is a fine park – 19,485 square kilometres, more than 500 bird species, and infrastructure …

No national park on the African continent concentrates elephants quite like Chobe National Park, Botswana. An estimated 120,000 to 130,000 African bush elephants roam this 11,700-square-kilometre park in northern Botswana, …

Pick up a standard African travel brochure, and you will find the same names rotating: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Morocco. Cameroon rarely appears. That is not because it lacks something …

The question comes up every time someone starts planning a Southern Africa safari: Should you book a game lodge or a safari camp? Both put you in the wild. Both …

Kenya’s safari sector generated KSh 460 billion, approximately $3.5 billion, in tourism revenue in 2024, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. Of that total, 75% came from wildlife-based tourism. The …

In 1981, there were 254 mountain gorillas left alive. The species was in terminal decline. Poaching, habitat encroachment, civil conflict, and disease had reduced a population that once ranged freely …

The most common problem with African safari pricing guides is that they give figures without context. A number like $500 per person per day sounds expensive without knowing what it …