by Nick-Kapama | Feb 14, 2020 | Big 5, conservation, Environment, Featured Articles, Nature, Pangolin, Wild encounters, World Pangolin Day
World Pangolin Day – 15th February THE – WHAT, WHO, WHERE, WHY & HOW The 15th February is World Pangolin Day. Not too many of us are familiar with these shy and elusive animals so we would like to take this opportunity to give a bit more insight...
by Nick-Kapama | Aug 23, 2019 | Big 5, Featured Articles, Leopard, Lion, Nature, Pangolin, Wild encounters
The day started with the usual morning coffee and meeting my guests before our game drive at Southern Camp. I set out on drive hoping to see maybe some Lions or even the gentle giants of the bush veld. Not even 5 minutes from Kapama Southern Camp, we encounter one of...
by Nick-Kapama | Apr 2, 2019 | Buffalo Camp, endangered, Environment, Featured Articles, Game Drive, Nature, Pangolin, Special nature events, Wild encounters
Stopping for a sundowner drink in the middle of the bush can lead to unexpected visitors coming to join you. This is exactly what happened to me and a couple of guests not too long ago. We were in for the surprise of a lifetime. We left Buffalo Camp in the afternoon...
by Melissa Smit | Sep 16, 2016 | Aardvark, African rock python, Birds, Creepy Crawlies, Crocodile, General, Impala, Mongoose, Pangolin, Snakes, Vulture, Wild encounters
Kapama Game Reserve is renowned for the rich variety of animals which guests are able to view on an average game drive – and no wonder – as the reserve forms part of a region that has an extremely high biodiversity of animals great and small. This area, called the...
by Melissa Smit | Jun 3, 2016 | Pangolin, Wild encounters
A once-in-a-lifetime daytime pangolin sighting As a ranger, there are only a few animals that I have not yet seen. Unsurprisingly, they’re all quite rare or extremely shy, but during an early morning safari on Kapama Private Game Reserve, some Italian guests and I...
by Eugene | May 1, 2015 | Lion, Pangolin, Wild encounters
Just when you think it couldn’t get any better! Written by: Liesa Becker “So, Richard and I might have a little surprise for you”, I told my guests as Richard, my tracker, and I shared a hopeful smile. It was the last day of March and we had spent our afternoon drive...
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