Safari News from Botswana

Great news from Botswana has been the discovery of a new baby white rhino near Mombo camp. There are now thought to be three young calves in this Okavango region which is a great success for the reintroduction of rhino into Botswana where they had been hunted to extinction many years ago. Safari Club clients now have an excellent chance of seeing both white and the even rarer black rhino in the Mombo safari concession.

Safari Clubs clients visiting Mapula Lodge may be lucky enough to see some endangered wild dogs with their puppies, a small pack of five dogs have denned near Mapula Lodge and produced six puppies. The dogs can be regularly seen hunting and playing on Safari’s in this area. Safari Club still have some limited availability for this year at this excellent up market lodge which is located in a remote area in the Northern Okavango Delta .

Safari Club guests booked at Jacana and Jao camps are getting the first sightings of two very young leopard cubs which have been born to the resident female leopard in the Jao concession. As the cubs grow and become more confident excellent sightings will become a regular feature of safaris to Jao and Jacana.

Duba Plains is perhaps one of the best places in Botswana to witnesses lion and buffalo interaction. The Duba lions hunt buffalo on a daily basis and a safari with Safari Club to Duba Plains offers an excellent chance of witnessing a dramatic hunt.
Clients at Duba Plains recently witnessed the life and death spectacle of a large male buffalo defending a new born calf which had been abandoned by it’s mother shortly after birth. The lions had spotted the calf and made a grab for it not realising that the large male buffalo was resting, concealed in thick bush nearby. On hearing the calves distress calls, the male came to the rescue courageously defending the calf for three hours before the calf eventually succumbed and the brave male was forced to retreat.
Some comitment to a baby that was unlikely to have been his own!

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