Kariega News

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...

Welcome to the New Year!

Some more wild orchids have been identified on the reserve, the Mystacidium capense was photographed on 2007-05-03 but was only identified this month - enjoy!

This (Eulophia clavicornis) little yellow beauty was...

Hallo, hallo!!
It is time for eating too much, having all those obscure relatives over and of course giving and receiving tons of gifts, hugs and kisses. Yes folks, it is Christmas time and all of Kariega is gearing up for the guests and...

Well here we are again – almost at the end of another year!

Summer is here and so are the storks, very busy delivering all the new babies to the animal parents out there.

The lioness has finally decided to bring out her three cubs and share them...