Hungry Ross Pride Lionesses Make ANOTHER Kill

Lioness guards her kill

The Klaserie Private Nature reserve is alive with lion activity. From the Trilogy lions mating, to the hungry Ross lionesses and the possibility of lion cubs; it’s all systems go at Africa on Foot and nThambo Tree Camp. The two breakaway Ross pride females are fearless hunters. This week they stalked and preyed on yet […]

Lion cubs in the making! Trilogy and Ross Pride Unite.

Trilogy male mating with Ross lioness

Well this is exciting! Not only have we seen evidence of one of the Ross lionesses with suckle marks on her belly, we have also caught the second Ross lioness mating with one of the Trilogy boys. It is thrilling enough to know that there is potentially a couple of bundles of joy being well hidden somewhere […]

The Week in Pictures: A Photography Round Up

An elephant disappears into the bush as guests look on in the Klaserie

Goings on at the camp are as exciting as ever and it seems that every major predator has come out to play. During our #livebushfeed edition on Wednesday, we were getting live reports from the rangers at Africa on Foot that the Trilogy Lions – a mean coalition of 3 males – was stalking and hunting buffalo. The […]

The Day of the Elephants

Watching a breeding herd of elephants cross the dam

The Klaserie Private Nature Reserve is teeming with wildlife activity at the moment. The change of season is upon us and with it brings a host of new activity. At the moment we are seeing a prolific number of breeding herds of elephant.  Affectionately known as jumbos, elephants always display remarkable behaviour.  There is never […]

Week in Pics: Lions of the Klaserie

Trilogy male licks his paw - could be a wound from feasting on his buffalo kill

* Warning: Graphic Images from Lion Kill This week has been a busy week of wildlife sightings. The camps have been rife with big cat activity, predator kills and the presence of cubs.  It was not possible to capture all the activity on camera due to poor visibility – but we did our best and […]

Trilogy Lions Kill a Buffalo

Trilogy male at a buffalo kill

The big boys of the Klaserie have done it again – after being seen yesterday on game drive with full bellies and looking very lazy, it turns out The Trilogy used the hours of darkness to make yet another kill early this morning. This coalition of 3 big male lions has been hanging around old Ross […]

Recap of our #Livebushfeed REAL time Safari

Live Bush Feed

Last night we launched our first installment of our real time safari idea; and it was a roaring success. Every Wednesday, on the evening game drive, our rangers head out into the African bush and report wildlife sightings to the office based team. Sightings and images go live instantly, creating an atmosphere of a virtual […]

Video Footage from Our Kruger Camera Trap

Video Footage from Our Kruger Camera Trap

We’ve  always been curious about how wildlife behaves without the presence of our game vehicles, so we set up a camera trap on our traverse in the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve. We are amazed at the action we caught on camera. Three out of the big five – not bad going ! The herd of […]

Elephant visitors at nThambo Tree Camp

Watching elephants from nThambo Tree Camp

The Klaserie Private Nature Reserve shares unfenced borders with the grand Kruger National Park allowing the unprecedented population of animals to wander through the reserve as they please. Famous lion prides, and leopard territories characterise the area around nThambo Tree Camp in the Klaserie, while enormous herds of elephants endlessly amble through the mopane woodlands. […]