Our Stories

At Tswalu, every guest has access to a private guide, a private vehicle, and 120,000 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,...

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.

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 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...

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.

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.

CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 6 – Late rains have kept the southern Kalahari green well into March. New lion cubs, flowering black thorns and landmark giraffe research make this a month worth documenting.

Few places on earth swing as dramatically between extremes as the Kalahari. Tswalu's semi-arid climate is one of its defining characteristics – and knowing what to pack makes all the difference.

There are places on Tswalu where the rock holds memory. Not the kind that can be read like a text or decoded like a map, but something older and less certain, a presence that asks to be felt rather than...