SANParks released a statement earlier confirming that a ranger did shoot and kill a lion after it entered a rest camp in the Kruger National Park. A concerned visitor posted on the SANParks Facebook group asking why she had heard gunshots at two in the morning, the visitor suspected that it was a poaching accident. …
We are excited to add another post to our Lion of Kruger segment and today’s post we have a lion enthusiast, Thorben Seik, as our guest to discuss the four Shishangeni males. The post and information was provided by Thorben. So on this post, Thorben wanted to lay the focus on a coalition that is …
We decided to do an updated version of this post since our last post is out-dated and it definitely needed an update because lions don’t tend to stay in the same place. While everyone will have their opinion on their best roads for spotting lions we are sharing the roads we’ve had the best luck …
Kurt Schultz, owner of Kurt Safari, had a once in a lifetime sighting on Saturday the 1st of Feb 2020 in the Kruger National Park, when he saw a baboon ‘adopt’ a lion cub. He told Latest Sightings the story: “I had a meeting at Skukuza, one of the camps, for Kurt Safari on Saturday, …
Yesterday marked a new beginning for 12 tigers and 5 lions, as they start their new life at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa. The big cats were rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from Guatemala, where they suffered their whole life by being confined to small cages. The rescue mission known as Operation …
We bring you a new installment in our Lions of Kruger segment, we focus on the “Young” Jock Males on today’s post. The young Jock lions get their name from the Jock pride and not from the Jock male lions. The young Jock males were born at the end of 2014, and they were fathered …
On today’s post we narrow down all the highlights from our December 2019 trip Mbiri and Rockfig Lions We stayed at Tamboti during our first few days, and the morning drives were pretty quiet most morning, but one of the mornings when we had lost all hope we found two lions sleeping in the road …
Well welcome back and happy 2020, we have just come back from a blissful three week in the Kruger National Park and we are definitely feeling recharged and inspired. We are excited for all the new content which we have planned for the upcoming weeks. We just want to reminisce on all our favorite sightings …
We are so thrilled today because we have Mark Roxburgh from Kiwis Abroad as a guest on the blog today, Mark and his wife Lindy visited the Kruger National Park for SEVEN months in 2018 and he is here to shed some light on their experience. In 2018 we started noticing the #kiwis_abroad hashtag on …
We are excited to have a guest on the blog for today’s post, Leigh-Ann Aingworth, she was recently at the Kruger and she is here to share an incredible sighting from her trip. Leigh-Ann is a part-time photographer, wildlife being her passion. She is from Durban and since Kruger is around 700km away she makes …
