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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...

CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 5 – Late summer rain, lion cubs still in hiding, a birding big day, and the launch of a PhD study asking an important question in pangolin conservation.

A decade of dedicated pangolin research at Tswalu has built one of the most sustained bodies of knowledge on Temminck's pangolin in Africa, guiding the release of rehabilitated pangolins back into the wild.

New research reveals how Tswalu's mass-flowering vlei lily survives the unpredictability of the Kalahari: by relying equally on day- and night-time pollinators. When one pollinator group fails, another maintains the system – a survival strategy guests can witness firsthand during...