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Wildlife Conservation

Contributing to the Conservation of Kruger’s Black Rhinos

According to statistics released by the national Department of Environmental Affairs last month, 1,028 rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2017. Although this represents a very small decline compared to the previous year, it is no reason to celebrate; poachers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their methods and expanding their operations across borders to other...

Singita: Celebrating 25 Years of Conservation

25 years ago, on a piece of family-owned land in South Africa’s Sabi Sand Game Reserve, a boutique safari lodge opened on the banks of the Sand River, setting the pace for a new brand of luxury safari experiences. Singita Ebony Lodge would become the first of 12 environmentally sensitive properties dotted across Africa, forming...

Singita Grumeti’s Latest Weapon in the War on Poaching

Protecting the western corridor of the Serengeti from the threat of illegal hunting is a critical part of the Singita Grumeti Fund‘s role as custodian of this fragile ecosystem. Having worked to overcome the erstwhile neglect of this region and the subsequent environmental crisis, the now flourishing landscape and its abundant wildlife population remain at...

Boots on the Ground: How 120 Singita Game Scouts Protect 350,000 Acres of the Serengeti

The Serengeti is a vast wilderness; a large and fragile ecosystem that suffered the ravages of uncontrolled hunting and rampant poaching for many years. The establishment of much-needed conservation initiatives and non-profit organisations like the Singita Grumeti Fund (SGF) has had an enormous impact on the biodiversity of the region in recent times. Where 20...

Protecting & Preserving the Wildlife at Singita Pamushana

Singita Pamushana Lodge overlooks a lake in the remote reaches of the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve in southeastern Zimbabwe; a virtually untouched wilderness that comprises 38 different habitats and ecological zones in 130,000 acres of protected land. This extraordinary piece of Africa is a thriving wildlife area and home to one of the highest concentrations of...

How the Singita Grumeti Fund Quadrupled Plains Game Numbers in the Western Serengeti in Under 15 Years

It’s easy to imagine the Serengeti as a series of enormous, grassy plains traversed by millions of wildebeest, gazelles, zebras and buffalos on the renowned annual migratory route. Popular culture would have most people believe that the region has always been teeming with game, when in fact, the Western Corridor of the Serengeti was in...

Protecting Wildlife & Wilderness for Future Generations

To preserve and protect large areas of African wilderness for future generations. It sounds like a simple enough idea, but Singita’s 100 year purpose is an enduring one based on two decades of total commitment to conservation that has had an enormous effect on the areas of African wilderness under our care. It is an idea that drives every...

Conscious Conservation: Our Highlights & Goals

Singita’s enduring purpose is simple, but also critically important to the safekeeping of Africa’s most precious wilderness areas: conserve and protect the miraculous places of which we are custodians. With a million acres of land under our care, it is a mammoth task to bring together wildlife conservation, eco-friendly tourism, and community support, but one...

The Alarming Results of the Great Elephant Census

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...

Giants Club Summit: Protecting Africa’s Elephants

On 29 and 30 April 2016, some of the world’s biggest voices will come together for the first time to speak up for one of its biggest inhabitants. The inaugural Giants Club Summit is set to take place in Kenya and will bring together African heads of state, global celebrities, corporate leaders, philanthropists and conservationists to address elephant poaching on the continent and discuss long-term solutions to this problem.

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