by Nick-Kapama | Aug 8, 2019 | Featured Articles, Game Drive, Giraffe, Kapama River Lodge, Nature, Wild encounters
Coming across two male giraffe in a clearing, on a game drive with my guests from River Lodge,started off to be quite relaxed or seen as a normal sighting of two “long necks”. As we approached, we discovered that there was more to this meeting than we thought. These...
by Nick-Kapama | Jun 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Giraffe, Nature, ranger, Wild encounters
Giraffes were thought to be a common plains game, an iconic animal in Africa that was abundant throughout its range. Today, Giraffes are considered vulnerable on the IUCN Red List (estimated population of +-100 000 individuals) with some subspecies listed as...
by Nick-Kapama | Apr 26, 2019 | Big 5, Birds of prey, Buffalo, Competitions, Elephant, Featured Articles, General, Giraffe, Leopard, Lion, Lion cubs, ranger, Rhino, Staff, Wild encounters, Zebra
Kapama Private Game Reserve is now in its 4th consecutive year of holding a Ranger Photography Competition. Each and every year we invite and encourage our rangers and staff to unleash their creativity, explore the natural environment around them, express their...
by Nick-Kapama | Feb 6, 2019 | Big 5, Buffalo Camp, Environment, Featured Articles, Giraffe, Wild encounters
We were on our way back to Buffalo Camp for a scrumptious breakfast after some hard work from my tracker Foster trying to track down a female Leopard. Unfortunately, the elusive Leopard was true to her name and we had no luck in finding her. We did however end up...
by Nick-Kapama | Dec 11, 2018 | Birds of prey, Featured Articles, General, Giraffe, Jackal, Kapama River Lodge, Seasons, Vulture
As a ranger, one of the things that I love about the bushveld is that that you never know what nature has in store for you on any given day. It might be a lilac breasted roller that you spot with its beautiful rainbow of colours brightening up a tree it’s...
by Nick-Kapama | Jul 24, 2018 | Antelope, Big 5, Featured Articles, General, Giraffe, Impala, Leopard, Nyala
An afternoon on Kapama is always full of excitement, even more so when you set to go out on Safari and aim to see one or two of the Big Five. During one of the afternoon game drives, we set off from River Lodge, with tracker Noel, along with six guests, from South...
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