As environmental consciousness rises around the world, more travellers are actively looking to support businesses who are doing their part to conserve the environment and uplift communities. And with poaching now at epidemic proportions, they want assurances that a percentage of what they pay for a safari is being put back into conservation. Charle...

Namibia was the first country in the continent to incorporate conservation into its constitution and today, over 43% of the country's surface area is under conservation management. It has the largest quotient in the world of free-roaming animals including the rare black rhino, lion and zebra. Namibia offers travellers opportunities to participate i...

Zambia, in southern Africa, is a landlocked country of rugged terrain and diverse wildlife, with many parks and safari areas. On its border with Zimbabwe is famed Victoria Falls – indigenously called Mosi-oa-Tunya, or "Smoke That Thunders" – plunging a misty 108m into narrow Batoka Gorge. Spanning the Zambezi River just below the falls is Victoria ...

The Makgadikgadi Pan, a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up tens of thousands of years ago. Safari operator Desert & Del...

How Many Elephants is spearheading the launch of World Female Ranger Day (23 June 2021), a global awareness day that will celebrate and support female anti-poaching rangers. The day will spotlight Africa in its first year. This is the first time that female wildlife rangers will be recognised collectively on a global interactive and fundraising-foc...

Great Plains is a leading tourism conservation organisation of sixteen safari properties in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe. Founded by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, safari experiences are built around 'bespoke, caring, meaningful and considerate values'. Key to its operation is the Great Plains Foundation, which is conserving and expanding natural habi...