“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.”
~ EMILY DICKINSON ~
In April of 2001 Tara and I flew from London to Seattle to present Zuka to the Family Trust. Prior to landing on the other side of the world, we had dedicated four months to this proposal. Now, standing outside the board rooms doors in a suite of offices in…
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The leopard is a species that was never reintroduced into the Munywana Conservancy. It was widespread across Zululand and like the spotted Hyena, managed to survive the onslaught of habitat loss, decimation of food source and indiscriminate hunting, both legal and illicit for trophies and their skins. Leopard were shot…
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In April 2004 the fences separating Zuka Private Game Reserve and Phinda Private Game Reserve started to come down, adding an additional 3,300 hectares of land to the Munywana Conservancy. Zuka Private Game Reserve is constantly motivated by a desire to expand green frontiers and see new uninterrupted horizons with…
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Another triumph in 2004 was the introduction of Black Rhino in to the newly formed Munywana Conservancy. The Black Rhino Range Expansion Project (BRREP) was created in 2003 to protect this endangered species which had neared extinction in the 1990s. The Black Rhino Range Expansion Project is a partnership between the…
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From the start in 1990 our core values, Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife and Care of the People resonated in everything that was undertaken within the Munyawana Conservancy. 2007 was no exception and saw the restitution of over 9000 hectares of land within the conservancy returned to…
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Zuka Private Game Reserve shared its southern and western boundaries with a property called Sutton, an area of 2,099 hectares. The Sutton property was finally incorporated into Zuka Private Game Reserve in 2008, extending our footprint to excess of 5,500 hectares. Consequently this meant the Mun-Ya-Wana Conservency could count over…
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Art for Africa 2009 was a groundbreaking charity auction, held at Sotheby’s London, organized by Zuka’s founder Jessica Getty and South African artist Beezy Bailey. This event, with an unfamiliar formula at the time whereby leading contemporary artists generously donated works to be auctioned with all proceeds going to two…
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