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Africa. There’s nowhere like it on the planet for wildlife, wild lands and rich traditions that endure.

Join Rwanda’s Gorilla Naming Ceremony

Editor | Kate Webster
September 23, 2020

Every year Rwanda celebrates their newborn baby gorillas by honouring them at a Gorilla Naming Ceremony called Kwita Izina. This year to coincide with #WorldGorillaDay, 24 September 2020, the event is going virtual so everyone around the world can join in to watch this amazing ceremony. The challenges of the current global situation with the…

Wild Again For 20: 2 men’s journey to help 20 rhinos

On 3 August 2020, two men will set off to traverse some 32,000 hectares of South African bushland for 20 days to raise awareness and donations to relocate 20…

Editor | Kate Webster
August 2, 2020

South Africa safari guides launch Photos for Food

One of the leading economic casualties of the COVID-19 outbreak is tourism, and the impacts in Africa from a decimated tourism industry is having ripple effects into rural communities…

Editor | Kate Webster
June 2, 2020

Rwanda’s Magashi camp is getting conservation right

Newly opened Wilderness Safaris’ Magashi Camp, is strongly rooted in a core purpose: To help contribute towards the conservation and sustainable operation of Rwanda’s last protected savannah ecosystem, and…

Editor | Kate Webster
February 1, 2020

Conservation helps mountain gorillas surpass 1000

Conservation efforts to save the endangered mountain gorillas are paying off, with the latest census counting over 1,000 gorillas. This is an increase from the previously counted 800.

The count…

Editor | Kate Webster
December 18, 2019

Trekking Rwanda’s rare mountain gorillas

Gorilla trekking is definitely one of a few dramatic
wildlife experiences you can have and there is no place better to do this than
Rwanda.

It is a rare experience that…

Editor | Kate Webster
November 16, 2019

Trekking Rwanda’s wilderness

Rwanda is known as the ‘land of a thousand hills’, and with that tittle comes a lot of trekking options.

While the gorilla trekking is the biggest draw card for…

Editor | Kate Webster
November 1, 2019

Black rhino relocated to Tanzania

In an ambitious effort to save the species from extinction, nine critically endangered black rhino have been relocated from South Africa to Singita Grumeti earlier this month.

This groundbreaking…

Editor | Kate Webster
September 19, 2019

Rhino conservation in South Africa

It wasn’t my first time in South Africa, nor on a game safari. I have been lucky enough to spend many hours in the bush, tracking wildlife and admiring…

WildOnes
September 3, 2019

Singita opens in Rwanda supporting gorilla conservation

Singita has officially opened Singita Kwitonda Lodge and
Kataza House in Rwanda, working to further conserve the rare mountain gorillas.

Singita has operated iconic ecotourism lodges and camps in
Africa for the…

Editor | Kate Webster
August 11, 2019