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Our Conservation Efforts & Community Development Initiatives

We recognise and embrace the important role our lodges and hotels play in the conservation of their environment. Every effort is made to use responsible management techniques that protect and enhance the environment for future generations. We also strongly believe in supporting and uplifting the local communities within, or nearby, which our properties are situated. For more information regarding any of the initiatives mentioned below, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our friendly team. We look forward to cultivating new and improved relationships with our surrounding local communities.

KINGS CAMP

Timbavati Traverse

TIMBAVATI PRIVATE NATURE RESERVE

The Timbavati Private Nature Reserve finally hosted the much anticipated 45km Timbavati Traverse ultramarathon in September 2021. All proceeds of the event went towards the protection of rhinos. Grant Murphy, head guide at Kings Camp ran 92km to raise funds for conservation. Murphy is a passionate runner and he used this chance to raise much-needed funds to support the Timbavati canine anti-poaching unit and Umoya Khulula Wildlife Centre.

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KINGS CAMP

Rotary & Kings Camp Community Service Partnership

TIMBAVATI PRIVATE NATURE RESERVE

Thanks to the partnership between Rotary Club of Polokwane and Kings Camp over the past 19 years many deserving communities and charities have benefitted including: environmental education centres, a school for the blind, boreholes, pumps and potable water to rural schools, solar power to homes in disadvantaged rural areas, wheelchairs donation, orphanage support, cyclone disaster relief, rhino poaching initiatives and more.

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KINGS CAMP

Timbavati Foundation

TIMBAVATI PRIVATE NATURE RESERVE

Started almost 20 years ago by the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve (TPNR) and the de Villiers family, landowners in the TPNR. The Foundation is steeped in the spirit of Ubuntu and works extensively to uplift the lives of communities neighbouring the TPNR via a series of ongoing outreach programmes based on 4 pillars: education, conservation & environmental awareness, community upliftment & social care and healthcare.

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MADIKWE HILLS

Lesedi Day Care Centre

MADIKWE GAME RESERVE

Forming a joint mission with Madikwe Game Reserve to promote economic and social upliftment, Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge has taken on a community uplifting project involving Lesedi Day Care Centre in Rietpan, a rural village an hour and 45 minutes away and home to some of the staff employed at the lodge. The Lesedi Day Care Centre has a passionate owner, Regina Senna, who will thrive with financial support as she has already proven herself as a determined woman focused on the welfare of children. The aim of this project is to assist and support Regina to run her business independently through sustainable income.

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TUNINGI SAFARI LODGE

Supingstad Primary School

MADIKWE GAME RESERVE

Tuningi has adopted a local pre-school as well as the Grade R class in the Supingstad Primary School as our community project. They utilise donations from guests according to needs as they occur, having donated new tables and chairs colouring books, memory sticks, water bottles, items of clothing and much more.

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LEOPARD HILLS

Good Work Foundation

SABI SAND GAME RESERVE

Leopard Hills partnered with the Good Work Foundation (GWF) to launch a digital learning campus in the nearby rural village of Dumphries. The GWF is an NGO focussed on digital learning opportunities for young adults and scholars living in rural communities.

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