KUZUKO TALES

Safari Dinner Adventure

Happy New Year to our Kuzuko family around the globe! It has become tradition at Kuzuko to ring in the New Year with a Safari dinner adventure, and oh boy did we have an experience! Starters were served as part of our sundowner game drive experience. This year...

Conservation in action

Conservation in action! This is the story about Sylvester, Fielies, Angel and Nika. These are the four special lions who make up the Sylvester pride. Each one had little hope of survival, but we now celebrate their survival, successful integration into nature and...

New Big Birding Day record

A flashback to another successful Big Birding Day held at Kuzuko Lodge It was a magical experience shared with our guests and visitors, and we are excited to announce the fact that we set a new BBD record for Kuzuko! On the 3rd of December 2022, we observed a total of...

Giving back to Middelwater Primary School

The festive season is a time to uplift those around you and give back, which is why our Christmas wish was to make a special memory for the bright young pupils at Middelwater Primary School From the whole Kuzuko Team, we wish you and your loved ones a very Merry...

Kuzuko Game Reserve digs deep with reforestation project

Published in The Herald on 21 December 2022. Original article can be found here. One of the largest reforestation projects in the world has got off, or rather into, the ground at the Kuzuko Private Game Reserve. SPEKBOOM SUCCESS: The project, will see more than...

Two male lions share a brotherly bonding moment

It is always a glorious moment when you can reconnect; whether it be reconnecting with loved ones on holiday, reconnecting with yourself while enjoying an experience, or observing a reconnection with nature Our Reserve Manager, Gerhard De Lange, had gone out looking...

Lionesses’ alarm calls caught the attention of males

Kuzuko magic caught on camera Taking you back to the other morning when Reserve Manager, Gerhard De Lange, came across Angel and Nika below the lodge. They had encountered a troop of baboon and their alarm calls caught the attention of our favourite males: Sylvester...

Akira’s story | Cheetah conservation at Kuzuko Lodge

Akira is the granddaughter of a famous cheetah called Sibella. Akira was born in April 2019, however shortly after her mother sustained a serious injury and rejected Akira. At the time, there was a cheetah family with similarly aged cubs at Kuzuko and our reserve...

Sighting of mother elephant with her brand new calf

Last month something very special happened at Kuzuko when we had a sighting of a mother elephant with her brand new calf. This heartwarming video shows the little one rushing to keep up and feeding with the herd. We consider ourselves very privileged to be able to...

Baby giraffe adopted by pre-school class

Recently, four-year-old Leo in the Giraffe Class at Golden Pond School decided he’d adopt a giraffe at Kuzuko Lodge for his class. This would be part of his show and tell. Well, show and tell has never been this exciting! Our General Manager agreed and asked the class...

Re-collaring Sylvester The Famous Karoo Lion | Conservation Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEUm5VUXMM

Land Rehabilitation

Over the last six months we have been trialling new methods of land rehabilitation in an area of severe erosion along the access road to the lodge. The best way to restore land varies from place to place and is specific to each ecosystem and vegetation type. Across...