Kariega News

Hi there folks

Some good news on the Rhino front. One of our baby rhino's that was orphaned in February (as a result of poaching) has befriended the recently orphaned Shamwari baby rhino. A great picture was published in the newspaper recently....

It would seem like all the elephants are conspiring to have their babies at the same time and now we have 5 new baby elephants, look out trees! Soon you will feel their presence. It has also been confirmed that the lioness had 3 new cubbies here...

Some exciting additions to the Kariega family - we have 2 new giraffe babies, one at Main and the other at River lodge. No pictures available yet, but will be coming soon. No news on the lion cubs yet.

Our bird-hide near reception offers amazing...

Spring is in the air and baby animals are showing up all over the place. As you all know we had a new buffalo baby arriving last month and here is the promised pic!

Hey there folks! Well the animals have been busy, enjoying the green grass and the bountiful water. The most exciting news this month is that we finally have our first buffalo babies, one on Kariega East and one near Riverlodge!! Pictures will be...

Thanks to all this lovely rain we’ve been getting all the rivers are flowing again and all the dams are full, we even have a few new dams.

How wonderful to see everything so green and lush again. There are even two new waterfalls!

Of course...

Hey there folks, I hope you enjoyed this month of coolness and lots of rain.

May was a good month for caracals sightings again. One of our rangers – Terry – had two sightings of caracal on one drive, how lucky can one guy get?! Thank you for...

Well folks can you believe it is the end of April and we are well on our way to what seems to be a cold, windy and wet winter.

This beautiful wild flower was spotted all over the reserve in March, and has now been identified as Cyrtanthus...

Another month gone and autumn is on its way!

We have another beautiful baby giraffe, born 23 March 2011. This photo was taken a day later, still wobbly and staying very close to mom.

A flower growing in clumps in front of reception and all across...

Here we are the end of another month already!

No new babies on the reserve this month, but here are some pics of the little ones who are not so little anymore!

For those not lucky enough to have seen our buffalo lately, they are getting big...