Press and Media

Nambiti for Media

Nambiti Private Game Reserve is a compelling media destination: community-owned, malaria-free, and carrying the Big 5 across 23,000 acres of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Ten independent lodges offer a range of styles. The reserve is within reach of Drakensberg mountain scenery and some of the most significant Anglo-Zulu War battlefield landscapes in the world.

Press visit requests, photography permits, and editorial enquiries are managed through the reserve’s communications team.

LOCAL TOURISTS LIFT KZN’S PRIVATE GAME RESERVE

Support from domestic tourists has been key to the recovery of private game reserves in KwaZulu-Natal. The Covid-19 pandemic has seen the number of foreign tourists plummet, forcing many businesses in the sector to reach out to local residents.

SOMKHANDA COMMUNITY GAME RESERVE WELCOMES A NEW HERD OF ELEPHANT

Somkhanda Community Game Reserve, owned by the Emvokweni Community Trust and co-managed with the Wildlands Conservation Trust, welcomed a herd of eleven elephants donated by Nambiti Game Reserve – another milestone for the reserve since its 2011 declaration as a protected area.

MAKING KZN ROAR - ROB LE SUEUR'S NAMBITI PRIVATE GAME RESERVE HAS A LOT OF SOUL

As a child, all Rob le Sueur wanted to do when he grew up was start his own Big Five game reserve. So he did.

NAMBITI FOCUSES ON ORIBI CONSERVATION

Nambiti Private Game Reserve donated four critically endangered oribi to Gelukwater Reserve outside Babanango, KwaZulu-Natal, to help ensure the species’ survival.

ENDANGERED BUCK SAVED FROM GAME RESERVE

Four endangered antelope were caught and relocated from a private game reserve in the Ladysmith area, KwaZulu-Natal, to offer them a better chance of survival at another reserve.

I COULDN'T FIND CHARLIE BUT …

A recollection of hearing that UK television presenter, action man and friend to Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, was visiting South Africa.

NAMBITI PRIVATE GAME RESERVE'S RHINOS DEHORNED

Business media coverage of Nambiti Private Game Reserve’s decision to dehorn its resident rhino population in KwaZulu-Natal as a proactive measure against poaching.

KZN RESERVE DEHORNS RHINOS FOR PROTECTION

City Press coverage of two rhino dehorned at Nambiti private game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal as a protective measure against poachers, with reserve management describing the decision as a difficult but necessary one.

RHINOS DEHORNED TO PREVENT POACHING

IOL reported that two rhino were dehorned at Nambiti private game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal to protect them against poachers, in a decision reserve staff called bittersweet but necessary.

RESERVE DEHORNS RHINO

News24’s coverage of the Nambiti private game reserve dehorning, undertaken in KwaZulu-Natal to protect resident rhino from poachers.

SOME DESPERATE ACTION AGAINST RHINO POACHING

Nambiti Private Game Reserve dehorned its entire resident rhino population as part of a wider anti-poaching strategy in KwaZulu-Natal.

PRIVATE GAME RESERVE DEHORNS RHINOS

Tourism industry coverage of the rhino dehorning programme undertaken at Nambiti Private Game Reserve to safeguard the species from poachers in the region.

RESERVE DEHORNS RHINO

Sowetan Live’s national coverage of the rhino dehorning carried out at Nambiti Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal to protect the animals from poachers.

PRIVATE GAME RESERVE PASSES THE BUCK

The Mercury’s print edition on the relocation of endangered antelope from a private game reserve near Ladysmith to a new reserve offering better long-term survival prospects.

RESERVE TO DEHORN TWO OF ITS RHINOS

The Witness’s original report on Nambiti’s decision to dehorn two more rhino, with reserve management describing the move as a difficult but necessary step to protect the animals from poachers.

KZN GAME RESERVE DEHORNS RHINO AS PROTECTION AGAINST POACHERS

TimesLive’s coverage of the dehorning procedure carried out at Nambiti Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal to protect its rhino population from poaching.

NAMBITI PRIVATE GAME RESERVE TO DEHORN TWO MORE RHINOS

Nambiti Private Game Reserve, situated in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands roughly 25km east of Ladysmith and 2.5 hours from Durban, announced plans to dehorn two additional rhino as part of its ongoing anti-poaching efforts.