by ecom | Mar 7, 2019 | Conservation, Reserve
Shareholder Karoly and company had a nice surprise when they stopped for sundowners: “One of our favourite places in the reserve for a good sundowner is underneath the giant Baobab on the Middle Plains, in which buffalo weavers build their large nests. While unpacking...
by ecom | Jan 29, 2019 | Conservation
Realistic and responsible conservation involves some difficult choices, and when we negotiated the permit to protect lions on Limpopo-Lipadi Game Reserve, the permit included the tacit agreement that breeding by females would be slowed as much as humanly possible. In...
by ecom | Jan 12, 2019 | Conservation, Reserve
As a shareholder of Limpopo-Lipadi you have the perks of ‘sitting’ front row with our special activities like bush and rhino walks. Or as in this instance: a four-day guiding course. Ian, one of the lucky shareholders, shares his account of this amazing experience....
by ecom | Dec 21, 2018 | Conservation
Just imagine: early morning, somewhere in the Reserve, lots of talking in Setswana on the radio, the anti-poaching team busy trying to locate the whereabouts of our white rhinos… And then: tracks that were found, meaning that there may be some rhinos in the vicinity....
by ecom | Dec 14, 2018 | Conservation
The world’s greatest trackers, the San peoples of the Kalahari, are peoples who grew up tracking African wildlife in the bush. They have been employed around Botswana by big game hunters, safari operators and researchers as unparalleled detectors in this environment....
by ecom | Dec 5, 2018 | Conservation
With the dehorning of rhinos becoming more and more the way to prevent the poaching of horns across Africa, it seems logical to look at what the dehorning does to the rhinos. Are there any effects of the procedure, in the aftermath or on the longer term in their...