We came across the Mma Dinare pride, eight young lions, four females and four males, all roughly the same age, on an early morning drive, in deep sleep in the long grass.
Nine young lions greet the morning together. At first, they slept in a tangled heap. Slowly, the sleeping pride began to stir, enjoying morning by the waters.
Krakatoa, the alpha female leader of the Marine Pack, waits anxiously for pack members to return from morning hunt to feed 15 hungry newborn pups in the den.
Journey into the heart of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Experience the raw wilderness of Khwai, Moremi, and Mme Dinare through close encounters with lions, leopards, and wild dogs.
In February 2026 an extraordinary conservation operation unfolded in southern Zimbabwe. Before African wild dogs could return to Matusadona National Park after decades of local extinction, veterinarians, pilots, conservationists and wildlife specialists worked quietly behind the scenes to prepare the endangered predators for one of the most ambitious wildlife translocations undertaken in southern Africa in recent years.
Not all encounters on safari are measured in size. Between the lions and elephants, there is another world – quieter, fleeting, and often missed.
Okavango Delta, Nxai Pan and the Central Kalahari Wild Life.
Conservation is not measured in quotas, but in whether scenes like this are allowed to persist — across generations.
No predator embodies community quite like this. And yet, for generations, painted dogs were denied the very thing they needed most: respect.
Birds of Southern Africa’s wetlands and open skies are alive with movement, colour and the quiet rituals.