by ecom | Jul 29, 2023 | Conservation
Wild dog with snare By: Limpopo-Lipadi | Date: Jul 29, 2023 | Conservation Recently a young wild dog male was identified with a wire snare injury to the neck. It was decided to give it a day or two to see if the dog would manage to dislodge the snare by itself, and...
by Limpopo Lipadi | Apr 29, 2023 | Conservation
Nature is not always pretty and for most animals it is eat or be eaten, for survival. So, if an accident or a fight happens and an animal dies this may be seen as sad, but it also provides a lot of food for a host of animals. Like in this instance. Some weeks ago, two...
by ecom | Dec 13, 2021 | Conservation
Shareholders Guido and Nancy were fortunate enough to witness a couple of conservation projects during their stay at Limpopo-Lipadi. Here is the story of their first adventure, the relocation of some of our lions to other parts of Botswana: “The day after we arrived...
by ecom | Nov 15, 2021 | Conservation, Reserve
At the end of October 2021, we released 124 blue wildebeest into Limpopo-Lipadi. This intervention has been coordinated to follow the translocation of the lion from Limpopo-Lipadi to Tununga and Nogaatsha. The wildebeest were deliberately captured in herd context, and...
by ecom | Sep 6, 2021 | Conservation
In 1986, Australian botanist, taxonomist and geneticist, Leslie Pedley, made the suggestion that Acacias be divided into three groups, as it was generally felt that the genus, acacia—with 1 400 species—was too complicated. According to him, the Acacia should only...
by ecom | Jul 26, 2021 | Conservation, Reserve
July kicked off a busy wildlife management month for us at Limpopo-Lipadi, with our first order of business being the sale and translocation of three giraffes to a neighbouring game farm. It is a well-lamented fact that giraffes are notoriously difficult to capture...
