Safari & Wildlife

A single lease payment says more about power over South Africa’s most expensive wilderness than any glossy safari brochure. Since March 2016, MalaMala Game Reserve has paid an annual fee …

Eswatini has just handed African safari operators a genuinely new story to sell. The Eswatini cheetah reintroduction has put four cats back into the Kingdom’s bush, 35 years after the …

Four hundred metres. That is roughly the distance from the last ranger post inside Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park to the boundary marker of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic …

In 1995, fewer than 25 desert-adapted lions survived in north-west Namibia, and the country’s elephant population had fallen to roughly 7,000. Black rhinos clung to a shrinking corner of Etosha …

A camera the size of a matchbox sits bolted to a marula tree in Tanzania’s Grumeti Reserve, watching a footpath no ranger can watch through the night. When a shape …

In 1990, the last confirmed cheetah in Malawi vanished from the record entirely—no sighting, no carcass, just an absence where a species had been. Twenty-seven years passed before a cheetah …

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 …