Shamwari Conservation Experience
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About us
The Shamwari Conservation Experience welcomes participants from all walks of life. Volunteers, adventure-seeking travellers, gap-year students, adults taking work sabbaticals… Anyone with a passion for nature conservation! Shamwari Private Game Reserve is the embodiment of how a bold, ambitious conservation project has turned back the clock, restoring a piece of Africa’s natural heritage to what it once was. The malaria-free Eastern Cape was once one of the richest wildlife areas in southern Africa, but by the turn of the century little remained. Today the 250km2 reserve is lauded as a conservation success story and is a declared Protected Environment but when the project began the outcome was far from assured. Reversing nearly 300 years of human impact, took a great deal of patience, expertise, ingenuity, and investment. Each step required careful planning to ensure there was sufficient space, food, and water for the animals to thrive as well as manage the balance between predator and prey species.
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