Rhinos were disappearing from Kenya’s community lands for decades, pushed out by poaching and rising insecurity, until most survived only behind the fences of heavily protected national parks. At Sera Conservancy in northern Kenya, that story has begun to change. Sera became the first community-owned conservancy in East Africa to reintroduce both black and white […]
Not every game reserve is built around visitors. At UmPhafa Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, luxury lodges and game drives aren’t waiting at sunset. Instead, it’s a space where students and researchers spend months in the field, and rangers patrol a landscape that’s being restored after years of farming. Owned by the former owners of Colchester […]
The Sanctuary in Vilankulos sits on Mozambique’s San Sebastião Peninsula, where land and ocean blur into a single protected system of mangroves, dunes, wetlands, coral reefs, and open Indian Ocean, all managed as one living, dynamic whole. The starting point of conservation here isn’t the landscape, but rather the people. Dave Gilroy arrived in 2018 […]
Namibia’s desert-adapted lions live differently from almost every other lion on Earth. They live in a world of mountains, dry riverbeds, and gravel plains. Only around 60 adults roam the 40,000 square kilometres of northwestern Namibia that the Lion Rangers programme covers. Their prides are smaller than those found in East Africa, but their home […]
“If you don’t know where lunch is coming from, do you really give a damn about an elephant?” It’s a blunt question, but for Loisaba Conservancy CEO Tom Silvester, it gets to the heart of one of conservation’s biggest challenges. At Loisaba, conservation begins with people. Tom has spent nearly three decades working from a […]
Ask Jonny Carter what the outdoors gives him that modern life doesn’t, and he answers with a single word: “Reality.” He pauses for a moment before explaining, “Everything else we do on a daily basis is kind of vapid by comparison.” “There’s an appreciation for giving your money to other humans for things that are […]
At the time of our call, Nambiti Private Game Reserve conservationist Leanne Deetlefs had one eye on the interview and another on the clock. A vet was due shortly to check on a cheetah. Multitasking is fairly standard for Leanne. A typical day might involve tracking African wild dogs at first light, checking a cheetah […]
When African Parks stepped in to acquire the world’s largest captive rhino breeding operation in 2023, the headlines focused on the scale of it: 2,000 southern white rhinos, the largest rhino rewilding initiative ever attempted. Behind the numbers sits an even more complicated reality. “What makes Rhino Rewild complex is not just the scale,” explains […]
We caught up over a call with Liwonde National Park’s Funding and Reporting Manager, Charles Maruwasa, as he dialled in from Malawi to talk us through a place that, by his own admission, is difficult to summarise. After nearly four years at Liwonde National Park, Charles has become used to explaining just how much happens […]
There’s a constant shift between science, strategy, and frontline response that defines the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT). For over 50 years, they’ve worked across southern and East Africa to protect species and ecosystems, but also to tackle the deeper, more complex drivers of biodiversity loss. Their approach is deliberately broad because it has to be. […]
