SAWCT manage and operate three conservancies. These areas have very different challenges, but need to be protected either way.

SAWCT have their own rangers, anti-poaching teams, fence crews and community liaison officers where needed. These are an amazing group of people who operate without fear in some of the harshest environments, against the scourge of poaching, charcoal burning, overgrazing and encroachment.

To spend a day out in the field with them is entertaining, enriching and very satisfying.

It does not take long for the wildlife to understand that they are safe and protected in these areas, Mbulia being the most perfect example of this, when we first moved in to the area game was scarce and very timid, today you can sit at a waterhole and have elephant come in to drink all around you. In the Mara we have seen remarkable change in a very short time, the areas we have now leased, which are now free of people and cattle, the game fully took over in less than a month.

But this amazing resource must be protected at all costs, and our teams are ready and willing to do our part in it. Incase you wonder what the fuss is all about here are a few shocking statistics for you:

There are only 3 Northern White Rhino left on our planet, all 3 are past their natural breeding age, this fundamentally makes them extinct as we watch.

In the last 3 years Africa as a continent has lost 100,000 elephants to the mindless slaughter for ivory. This is 91 elephants every single day.

In the last 10 years, 100 Rangers have been killed in action protecting Africa’s wildlife.