Working on our beloved wild dogs

For Gabriella Postiglione, working with animals has always been a part of her plan. As a young girl living in Italy, she realised that she was destined to work with wild animals. Her journey has taken her from Italy to America, Tunisia, South Africa and Botswana,...

Cute and noisy: bush baby

During your evening drives in the reserve, you may spot their shining eyes bouncing around in your torch beam, or they may wake you up in the early hours of the morning to their ear-splitting shrieks: the elusive and incredibly cute bush baby. Bush babies, also called...

After the Big Five check out the Small Five

On the list of wildlife spotters is always the ‘Big Five’ (rhino, lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo). But did you know, there’s a complimentary ‘Small Five’? They are the leopard tortoise, rhino beetle, elephant shrew, ant lion and buffalo weaver. Clearly, the...

Black-backed jackal: monogamous, social and smart

Jackals have somehow never really made the safari A-list. Derided in Kipling’s Jungle Book as ‘dish-lickers’, they seldom get the attention they deserve. Yet in many areas, also at Limpopo-Lipadi, these are the most abundant of the mammalian carnivores and the closer...

Small Five’s star performer: the dung beetle

Many of us may have made it through what could possibly be the worst year of our lives—2020. In keeping with this theme, it may well be appropriate to pay tribute to the lives of the Small Five’s star performer, the dung beetle. They spend their entire lives rolling...

Remembering Limpopo-Lipadi

Shareholder and artist, Alison Nicholls takes us down memory lane to one of her fond memories of Limpopo-Lipadi: “When I think of Limpopo-Lipadi, I think of a beautiful September morning when I sat in a hide with a friend for a couple of hours. In addition to...