South Africa
South Africa is the most southern country in Africa. Covering 1.2 million square kilometers (463,000 square miles). Around 10% of the country is protected for wildlife, and this is a very famous place to go on safari. Indeed, the Kruger national park – South Africas largest reserve (and part of the greater Limpopo Transfrontier park) is the place where I did by field guide training, and this is a place that is well worth visiting.
It is one of the best destinations for African safari – both the Kruger national park and the next door sabi sands private reserve are some of the best known in the world.
However, this is not all that teh country is best known for. There is beautiful cities, stunning coastlines, and pretty much every habitat has fascinating wildlife.
We already have a number of destinations listed, but hope to expand rapidly over the next few years.
South Africa is already a well known tourism destination, never the less, there are still plenty of places which you can visit and get off the beaten track. While these can be found in the public parks (and I prefer to find these in public) these can often be easier to find in the private reserves that litter the country.
Links to areas to visit will appear below.
3 of the 20 Cheetah translocated from South Africa to India have died in recent weeks, does this confirm doubters?
- Tim
- May 22, 2023
Translocating Cheetah from South Africa to India : update
- Tim
- June 29, 2022
Bees killed 63 endangered penguins in south Africa
- Tim
- February 26, 2022
Shell has started to use seismic tests around South Africa looking for Oil
- Tim
- December 8, 2021
South African cheetah to be introduced into India
- Tim
- November 17, 2021
Cheetah population in South Africa has almost doubled in 9 years-how?
- Tim
- October 15, 2020
Where have South Africa’s great white sharks disappeared to?
- Tim
- July 15, 2020
Rhino poaching Falls for the fifth consecutive year in South Africa
- Tim
- February 14, 2020
The rise of rhino poaching within South Africa
- Tim
- April 2, 2018
Black Mamba (South Africa)
- Tim
- March 11, 2018
In modern day Africa Bonobos live south of the Congo river, and Chimpanzees live to the north – has that always been so?
- Tim
- March 12, 2021
Southern African countries Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola and Namibia are calling for an end to the ban on ivory sales
- Tim
- July 20, 2019
African wild dogs live at low densities naturally, what happens if climate change makes survival harder?
- Tim
- July 13, 2022
One of the four remaining viable west African Lion habitat has been badly treated but perhaps it is now on the mend.
- Tim
- May 22, 2022
The Asiatic cheetah species is not closely related to the African one as previously thought
- Tim
- January 29, 2022
The website was hacked! nothing lost, and wildlife tourism to Africa can return
- Tim
- October 7, 2021
Why are so many African countries on the government’s Covid red list
- Tim
- September 13, 2021
Will climate change kill the forests of Africa?
- Tim
- July 20, 2021
A place where the African Lion lives alone
- Tim
- March 16, 2021