Samara Game Reserve
Monkey Valley became the first farm that formed the nucleus of Samara Private Game Reserve and twelve years ago we happily became its owner. The dream ensued – amass enough land to have a self-sustaining eco-system that would carry game, the herds of antelope that used to inhabit this area and the predators to keep the balance that helps maintain these fragile eco-systems.
70 000 acres and twelve years later, Samara’s dream was born, pursued and continues to evolve in the Eastern Cape’s Great Karoo. The land was allowed to rest for many years and has now recovered from the effects of generations of agricultural exploitation. The haunting beauty of this landscape that first inspired Samara’s campaign of rejuvenation has been allowed to return.
Samara, land of serenity, has had as its aim, the realization of the land’s potential, not only as an area of outstanding natural diversity, but also as home to an ambitious program of game reintroduction. Herds of springbok, black wildebeest, zebra, oryx, eland and blesbok amongst others “pronk” and run again on the Plains of Camdeboo. Rhino and giraffe now meander across the veld. Nearly 125 years after it was last seen, the cheetah reigns again.
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