The Greater Kruger
120 years of conservation history.
Three countries. Millions of animals.
The Timbavati Private Nature Reserve makes up part of several million hectares of African wilderness known as the Greater Kruger National Park. There are no fences. Wild animals roam freely. You’ll know what this means for people. And wildlife. Because you’ll see it. Smell it. Feel it breathing all around you.
Each connected reserve in the Greater Kruger has its unique history, geology, and habitats. The Timbavati is keystone in this vast system. Proclaimed in 1956, the reserve dropped its fences to become part of one pristine tract of protected wilderness. The Timbavati’s ecological contribution to this large, thriving, unfenced, protected space is immense. It is also socially and economically important for the whole of the Greater Kruger area, having developed a successful and sustainable wildlife-driven business model based on collaboration, co-management, conservation, and a deep, abiding commitment to community.
Timbavati Private Nature Reserve
The Timbavati Private Nature Reserve’s immediate neighbors include the Kruger National Park to the east, Umbabat to the north, and the Klaserie and Thornybush reserves to the west. While the reserve has been open to the Kruger for more than 30 years, more recently, fences between the Timbavati and its neighbor to the west were also dropped, which opened an additional 14,500 hectares for natural species migration.
Its thriving tourism economy promotes employment and industry within neighboring communities. The reserve also finances an outreach body, the Timbavati Foundation, that runs a series of programmes that help neighboring communities in areas such as boreholes, sustainable shaded vegetable farming as well as environmental awareness programmes for schoolchildren.
