Highlights of each of our natural reserves Our MORE Family Collection owns, manages and helps to conserve wilderness reserves covering 111 000ac (274 000ac) across Southern Africa, and brings guests here to share in its rich and diverse natural heritage. Each of our safari properties is entirely unique in terms of its wildlife and scenic beauty, and experienced in one itinerary they offer a best-of-the-best safari journey. LION SANDS GAME LION SANDS GAME VICTORIA FALLS RESERVE RESERVE MARATABA PRIVATE GAME RESERVE (VFPGR) (Sabi Sand Side) (Kruger Park Side) Private Game Reserve Private Concession Contractual National Park Private Game Reserve Land Agreement Lion Sands is the only private game reserve with a footprint in Marataba is a privately-managed section of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe – This is the only Location both Sabi Sand Game Reserve and Kruger National Park – the Marakele National Park – Limpopo, private reserve in the vicinity of Victoria Falls Mpumalanga, South Africa South Africa (just 10 minutes away) Size 6 400ha/15 800ac 6 000ha/14 800ac 23 000ha/56 800ac 4 000ha/9 900ac Malaria Risk Moderate Moderate None Moderate •Grassland and Savannah biomes, with a band of riverine forest • Savannah biome – including forest and Savannah biome – with diverse habitats along the banks of the Sabie and the Sand rivers – Lion Sands has grassland – with mountainous areas, rocky across mopane forest, teak and miombo more river frontage at 49km/30mi than any other reserve in hills, plains, the perennial Matlabas River, woodland, grasslands, sand dune ridges, and South Africa and a wetland along the perennial Masuwe and Nakavango •Lion Sands conserves part of a habitat that is home to the • Due to the Marakele's location in a rivers making for unique and especially Vegetation and highest and most diverse concentration of wildlife in the transition zone between the dry western scenic safaris Habitats southern hemisphere and wetter eastern regions of South Africa, the park has an impressive abundance and variety of fauna and flora, including rare yellowwood and cedar trees, as well as ancient cycads and ferns • Big Five (Lion Sands is especially renowned for the quality of • Big Five – with a healthy population of the • Big Five – including a healthy population of its leopard viewing – highest recorded density of leopards in critically-endangered black rhino the critically-endangered black rhino, with the South Africa) • Brown hyena reserve being a very successful, designated • Hippo • Cheetah rhino Intensive Protection Zone Wildlife: • Nile crocodile • Bat-eared fox Signature Species • Spotted hyena • The world’s largest colony of endangered • Antelope: eland and sable • Black rhino Cape vultures (±800 breeding pairs) • Leopard • Nile crocodile • Wild dog • General game (Eland, Kudu, Nyala, Impala, Springbok, Zebra, Wildebeest etc) LION SANDS GAME LION SANDS GAME VICTORIA FALLS RESERVE RESERVE MARATABA PRIVATE GAME RESERVE (VFPGR) (Sabi Sand Side) (Kruger Park Side) • African wild dog • Black rhino • Pangolin • Black rhino – VFPGR is the only reserve in • African wild cat • Brown Hyena • Aardwolf the region home to this species Wildlife: • African civet • Caracal • Bat-eared fox • Bat-eared fox • Pangolin Rare Species • Black rhino • Eland • Gemsbok • Aardwolf • Aardvark • Pangolin • Eland • Sable • Aardvark • Sharpe's grysbok • A buffalo herd, with ±200 individuals • 3 000 impala, with herds of 20 – 30 As yet, not established • Impala herds, 30 – 40 strong individuals Wildlife: • Elephant herds of 20 – 30 individuals • ±2 000 wildebeest, split into many smaller High-density • 2 packs of African wild dogs – one including 15 individuals herds of about 7 – 10 individuals Populations and Note: Exact numbers are difficult to establish as Lion Sands forms • ±1 500 zebra, split into many smaller herds Largest Breeding part of the greater Kruger National Park, stretching across nearly of about 5 – 10 individuals Herds 2 million hectares/5 million acres • 400 elephants, with herds of 5 – 20 individuals Wildlife: 500+ bird species ±400 bird species ±470 (unconfirmed) Bird Numbers • Southern ground hornbill (rare) • Raptors: booted eagle, peregrine falcon, • Trumpeter hornbill (distinguished from • African fish eagle (known as the 'Voice of Africa' for its cuckoo hawk other hornbills by its large grey casque) distinctive call) • Swallow-tailed bee-eater (distinguished • Dickinson's Kestrel (belonging to the falcon • Gorgeous bushshrike (one of the most beautiful birds on the from the other 3 species by its forked tail) family) Wildlife: continent) • Violet-eared Waxbill (beautiful and shy) • African skimmer (rely on the water for their Special Bird Species • Temminck's courser (noted for laying its survival but do not swim) dark-colored eggs in burnt bushes and • Collared palm thrush grass) • African emerald cuckoo • Blue crane Wildlife: December to February, with opportunities to view both resident September to March, with opportunities to November and March, with both resident and Birding Seasons and migrant species view both resident and migrant species migrant species in residence .