Kendra Vellante is a member of the team that represents Singita in the United States, and recently travelled from New York to Tanzania to visit Singita Serengeti and enjoy a glimpse of Green Season. Her whirlwind trip included stops at all six of Singita’s lodges in the area, many action-packed game drives and a touching...
Leon van Wyk is a veteran field guide at Singita Sabi Sand, and has 25 years of experience tracking and observing animals in the wild. In his time, he has had to dispel more than one wildlife myth for visitors to Africa, and although they have not arisen without good reason, reality is often different...
Spanning nearly 450,000 acres of endless savannah in Tanzania, Singita Serengeti offers visitors a front seat to the Great Migration as well as countless other wildlife experiences all year around. With a landscape that combines grassy plains with riverine forests and thorny scrubland, the area is home to a huge variety and number of big...
Habitat loss. Climate change. Human conflict. There are many reasons why elephants, arguably the continent’s most iconic animals, are disappearing from African landscapes, but the biggest threat to this vulnerable species is humans; specifically those that hunt them illegally to trade in their ivory. The rapid decline in their numbers prompted philanthropist Paul G. Allen’s...
As game rangers, conservationsists and animal lovers, it can be extremely difficult to see the landscape and wildlife suffering during a drought. The current, severe lack of rain in the Kruger National Park area has caused a knock-on effect with food supplies, making it extremely difficult for grazers to find grass on which to feed....
Leopard sightings aren’t exactly rare in Singita’s 33,000-acre corner of the Kruger National Park; just last month, field guide Brian Rode recorded 35 separate sightings in his Wildlife Report! Although usually an elusive species, the leopards and other wildlife in this area are habituated to the game vehicles and don’t perceive a threat, so their natural...
