Earlier this year, Singita, along with the Albert Einstein Foundation, the European Space Agency and the Mpumalanga Department of Education, co-sponsored Africa’s first The Next Einstein competition. Designed to challenge young people to come up with innovative, practical solutions to critical issues that they identify in their communities, the contest saw learners from 19 primary schools...
Driving through the Newington Gate out of the Sabi Sand Wildtuin, home to three Singita lodges, you’ll soon pass a long, tin-roofed building, in and around which is a hive of activity. This is the Madilika Craft Centre; a co-operative formed by a group of talented women from the local communities that provides permanent employment for 20...
Singita Sabi Sand in South Africa is a pristine stretch of protected land in one of the most biologically rich areas on the continent. The high density of diverse flora and fauna makes the region a prime location for game viewing, as is evident in Singita field guide Ian Mey‘s recollection of a recent morning...
Singita Sabi Sand is, without a doubt, one of the world’s premier game-viewing destinations. High densities of wildlife existing in a state of natural balance, supported by healthy land and plant life, make for a pristine animal habitat and a spectacular safari destination. However, this was not always the case. In fact, when Singita began...
Singita Sabi Sand, a concession within the larger Sabi Sand Wildtuin in South Africa, is home to one of the world’s best-protected leopard populations. An astonishing 9,000 sightings of 142 individual leopards were recorded in the Sabi Sand region last year, making the area an obvious choice for important big cat research that allows conservation...
Singita’s lodges and camps might be set in some of the wildest and most unspoiled landscapes on earth, but they don’t exist in isolation. The communities on the outskirts of each reserve, as well as the people who live in and work on each property, play an important role in helping us to meet our...
Honey-coloured mornings and dark orange sunsets, cool evenings, and clear skies filled with stars – this is the start of winter at Singita Sabi Sand. Purchased by the Bailes family 90 years ago, this stretch of pristine wilderness adjacent to the Kruger National Park was transformed into a wildlife reserve in 1948 and became home...
A good school, a lunchbox full of nutritious food and a quiet home in which to complete homework are things many of us take for granted about growing up. For plenty of children in the rural communities of South Africa however, access to quality education can be more of a challenge. In an attempt to...
The arrival of the monthly wildlife reports from Singita’s five reserves and concessions in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania is always a highlight for us city slickers. Reading about the seasonal changes in the landscape, an exciting game drive that ended in lion kill, the spotting of a rare and unusual species, and all manner...
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...
