Tswalu Kalahari Reserve

Tswalu Kalahari Reserve South Africa's largest private game reserve.
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Tswalu Kalahari Reserve
3 luxury safari camps supporting regenerative conservation | Privately guided safaris in South Africa’s last great wilderness, the southern Kalahari.

No itinerary. No time constraints. No negotiating when to head back. Just 120,000 hectares of Kalahari, surrounded by yo...
05/06/2026

No itinerary. No time constraints. No negotiating when to head back. Just 120,000 hectares of Kalahari, surrounded by your people, in the company of a private guide and tracker who know this landscape and what it can yield. We've written about what exclusive-use really means at Tswalu – and why it suits some trips better than others.

Read the full story: https://tswalu.com/your-private-kalahari/

Images by Marcus Westberg

Biodiversity starts with the grass. This May, Tswalu hosted its first vegetation research workshop, bringing together th...
02/06/2026

Biodiversity starts with the grass. This May, Tswalu hosted its first vegetation research workshop, bringing together the botanists, ecologists and monitoring specialists whose fieldwork over more than 10 years continues to shape how we manage 118,000 hectares of the southern Kalahari, the largest private reserve in South Africa. After a season of extraordinary rain, there is a lot to document.

Conservation Journal Issue 8 is now live: https://tswalu.com/biodiversity-starts-with-the-grass/

Images by Marcus Westberg

27/05/2026

You might miss it. A shape in the grass, a snout working the ground, and then, just like that, it's gone. Most aardvark sightings at Tswalu come down to luck and timing and nothing else. This is a vast reserve. The chances of being on this road, at this hour, as this particular animal crosses it, are slim.

Tswalu has been nominated in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards. Your vote helps protect the kind of wilderness where encounters like this one are still possible – unscheduled, unhurried, nature's reward.

Follow the link to vote: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/vote-readers-choice-awards

Reel by Ivan Ueckermann

For many guests, the purple roller is the bird that starts everything. Instantly recognisable, perched high where the li...
24/05/2026

For many guests, the purple roller is the bird that starts everything. Instantly recognisable, perched high where the light finds it – lilac, turquoise, cinnamon, white – it reads the ground below with patience before dropping fast on its prey. What it doesn't reveal is that birding is rarely this straightforward.

Images by Marcus Westberg

18/05/2026

PhD candidate Juri Filonzi is tracking an unexpected pattern at Tswalu: slender mongooses regularly use sociable weaver nests as sleeping sites, departing from their typical preference for burrows, dense vegetation or hollow trees.

Radio-tracking data collected since September 2025 is revealing how consistently this happens and whether it's driven by temperature regulation, predator avoidance or simply taking advantage of available shelter.

These detailed observations form part of Juri's broader research into how the slender mongoose and Cape grey mongoose – two closely related species that rarely coexist – share space at Tswalu. Understanding their sleeping site preferences, activity patterns and diet helps answer whether these species compete or whether they've found ways to partition resources and coexist long-term.

Field research is full of surprises. What starts as a question about competition can lead to discoveries about adaptive behaviour, microclimates and interspecies relationships.

Guests visiting Tswalu through late winter 2026 can spend time with Juri observing mongooses, learning about radio-telemetry and seeing how data collection builds toward answers.

Read more: https://tswalu.com/studying-mongoose-ecology-in-a-semi-arid-environment/



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The largest private reserve in South Africa spans 120,000 hectares of the southern Kalahari. No fences between you and t...
15/05/2026

The largest private reserve in South Africa spans 120,000 hectares of the southern Kalahari. No fences between you and the horizon. No other camps or lodges. No crowds.

When you vote for Tswalu in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards, you're not just recognising a safari experience. You're amplifying the case for conservation-led travel, and for protecting one of Africa's most remarkable wild spaces.

Voting is open now.

Follow the link: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/vote-readers-choice-awards

Images by Marcus Westberg

The Korannaberg's rocky terrain suits the brown hyena well. Largely nocturnal and naturally wary, this elusive animal mo...
13/05/2026

The Korannaberg's rocky terrain suits the brown hyena well.

Largely nocturnal and naturally wary, this elusive animal moves through this landscape on its own terms. Seen rarely, and always briefly.

Photographs like these, by Marcus Westberg, are the exception.

09/05/2026

At Tswalu, the Korannaberg is impossible to ignore.

This ancient quartzite range shapes rainfall, drives biodiversity, and creates a unique habitat for animals that favour the protection offered by rocky terrain – including klipspringer, Hartmann's mountain zebra and leopard.

Read more in the latest Conservation Journal: https://tswalu.com/understanding-the-significance-of-the-korannaberg-and-its-valleys/

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African wild dogs are no longer biologically independent. Without active management, coordinated translocations, and res...
07/05/2026

African wild dogs are no longer biologically independent.

Without active management, coordinated translocations, and reserves large enough to absorb a fast-breeding, wide-ranging pack, the species cannot sustain itself.

As South Africa's largest privately protected area, Tswalu has a critical role to play in that effort – and the story goes deeper than you might expect.

Read the full story: https://tswalu.com/african-wild-dog-conservation/

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The Korannaberg is a prominent quartzite mountain range running north to south through Tswalu – and it shapes everything...
04/05/2026

The Korannaberg is a prominent quartzite mountain range running north to south through Tswalu – and it shapes everything within the reserve.

Water seeps through ancient rock for months after the rains, sustaining vegetation and wildlife. April's Conservation Journal explores four of the valleys that cut through the mountain, the wildlife corridors they create, and what an exceptional rainfall season has brought to life within them.

Read the full story: https://tswalu.com/understanding-the-significance-of-the-korannaberg-and-its-valleys/

Images by Chris Joubert

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