The impact of Singita’s community partnership projects is integral to the company’s 100-year conservation purpose to preserve and protect large areas of African wilderness for future generations. It isn’t enough to support the people who live in and around our lodges with token contributions to small business or education; as Singita’s founder Luke Bailes puts it: “[community partnership]...
Maintaining the integrity of each Singita reserve and the ecosystems that exist within it is one of the main priorities for our hands-on conservation teams. It’s a challenging task, that includes managing issues like human-wildlife conflict, alien plant control and habitat restoration, but is also often influenced by uncontrollable external factors, such as drought. Towards...
Founded in 1898, Kruger is one of the oldest national parks in the world and at over 4.8 million acres, it’s also one of the largest. Singita was granted a 33,000-acre concession of the park in 2001 and permitted to construct lodges and private roads in this unexplored part of the park, which was done...
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...
We love sharing the stories of the people who call Singita home as much as we love to share thrilling wildlife encounters and conservation successes.
Investing time, commitment, energy and expertise to support local communities is critical to Singita’s success, as you will have read in our recent blog post about the latest graduating class from the Singita School of Cooking (SSC). Projects like this provide exciting opportunities to people from nearby villages that otherwise would not exist, and encourage them to thrive, both socially and economically.
An important part of the Singita experience is finding connection; with nature, with people, with yourself. The natural beauty that surrounds each lodge and its warm, accommodating staff make the first two easy, and the third could be as simple as spending a few hours at the Singita spa.
The competition for attention between siblings is something many people will be familiar with, but imagine having 20 of them to contend with! This is the norm for the unusually large lion prides that roam Singita Kruger National Park; family groups that can reach up to 40 members.
