The look on our team’s faces this week as guests stepped across the threshold into the reopened Zarafa could have been bottled! The guests' smiles (from behind masks) of the...
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Do many whispers make a racket? A single bell frog starting up alone, ‘tink, tink’, in the crisp night stands out as a lone voice but is often just the...
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At 8 am today there was an earth shift in Botswana. Some will not have noticed it but many did, and it has huge significance to the tourism industry in...
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I first heard the roar of a lion when I was about six. It was the same day I first saw elephants. I was too young to spell 'fear', so...
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Through collaboration we strive. On Sunday 22nd November a Community Football Tournament took place at the Maun Sports Complex in Botswana, organised by Great Plains Conservation and Sankoyo Bushbucks Football…
At Great Plains we also understand that thriving conservation programs are only possible when communities living alongside the wildlife and protected areas are afforded opportunities to learn, interact, and benefit…
Our latest initiative on how we can minimise our impact on the environment Great Plains Conservation is passionate about doing their part for the planet. We have numerous projects and…
Our guides are not just guides, they are wildlife conservationists At Great Plains Conservation, our safari guides are not just guides, they are passionate conservationists. These men and women chose…
African wild dogs were once found across Africa, but today they exist in mere pockets of endangered packs. In areas such as the Selinda and Okavango in Botswana and Maasai…
The power of collaborative conservation On seeing rhinos for the first time in their lives, last year, the Chiefs of six remote villages from the Okavango Community Trust couldn’t believe…
Pack now. Explore later. While we wait to head out into the world and wild again, our boots are laced, our linen shirts are buttoned and our explorer hats are…
In the animal world, mothers come in every shape and size… Some are as big as African elephants and some are as small as an elephant shrew. Some hiss and…
A childhood initiation into the African wild… A long time ago, humans were on a great voyage, crossing countries and continents and ever-changing habitats: deserts, jungles, snowy peaks, savannahs, rivers……
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, Great Plains Conservation continues to protect wildernesses, enforce focused anti-poaching measures and assist vulnerable communities. Because now more than ever, it is important to unite…
“Homo nosce te Ipsum (Man know thyself),” Dereck Joubert often quotes… It’s a reminder for us to look within and get to know ourselves more intimately, to live according to…
“Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee Alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of…
Last week, I wrote about our dramatic journey while filming Okavango, and being based at Duba Plains Camp in Botswana. Those who downloaded a copy of Chapter 1 will not…
Last week I wrote, and declared, no more use of ‘the C word.’ So I’ll stick to that. But for many of us now Conservation is everything. For the first time…
At Great Plains Conservation we love to surprise you. In a good way! A bush dinner, a hand made gift, small things to make your safari a momentous experience. I…
Becoming a More Conscious Traveller… Travelling is how we build our understanding of and compassion for the world. Our desire is to protect it. It’s what enables us to feel…
