Our Stories
Find inspiration and learn more about Tswalu through our stories, written by members of our community as well as guest contributors. Browse by category to read all about our luxury safari camps, what to do and see on the reserve, how your stay positively impacts our sustainability journey, and much more.
Research at Tswalu – a living laboratory
Tswalu is more than a protected landscape. Through the Tswalu Foundation, it functions as a living laboratory, hosting multiple active research projects that build, over time, into a connected body of evidence about how the southern Kalahari works and how...
Elusive Species are present but often proving invisible
CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 9 – Elusive species are notoriously difficult to spot. Exceptional rainfall has made them harder – they thrive but are hidden in dense vegetation. Camera traps reveal populations of bat-eared foxes, Cape foxes, polecats, genets, jackals and...
Tarkuni, reimagined
Tucked into a private valley below the Korannaberg, Tarkuni has always felt set apart. Not just from the rest of Tswalu's vast wilderness, but from the world beyond it. The homestead has recently been refurbished, and the result is a...
Your private Kalahari
At Tswalu, every guest has access to a private guide, a private vehicle, and 118,000 hectares of the southern Kalahari that feels, by design, exclusively theirs. Exclusive-use accommodation takes it further still, extending that privacy from the vehicle into camp,...
Biodiversity starts with the grass
CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 8 – Biodiversity starts with the grass. After a record rainfall season, Tswalu's first vegetation research workshop brought together the scientists who know why – and what to watch for next.
Understanding the significance of the Korannaberg and its valleys
CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 7 - The Korannaberg is the ecological backbone of Tswalu. This month, we explore four of the valleys that cut through the mountain range, wildlife corridors accessible to guides and their guests, and what plentiful rain has...
African wild dog conservation
African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are among Africa's most misunderstood carnivores – and South Africa's most endangered. Fewer than 6,000 remain in the wild globally, and the pressure on the species within southern Africa's fragmented, frequently fenced conservation landscape is...
Conserving the southern giraffe
Tswalu's southern giraffe population has increased 10-fold since 1999. New research from the Giraffe Conservation Foundation reveals why privately protected land is central to the species' recovery – and how Tswalu's data contributes to that story.
Photographing meerkats at Tswalu
In December 2025, National Geographic published Why Alpha Females Reign Supreme in Meerkat World, photographed by Thomas Peschak. We sat down with him to find out what it took to bring this story to life.
