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Using camera traps, GPS collars, drones and AI, conservation student Daniel Sacker is spending his year at Tswalu discovering how technology is quietly reshaping fieldwork, from tracking wild dogs to identifying brown hyena from thousands of images.

CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 10 - At Tswalu, conservation is regenerative as well as sustainable. Beyond protecting what is already here, natural processes have been restored and wildlife reintroduced, rebuilding the ecological resilience of the reserve.

Photojournalist Marcus Westberg has returned to Tswalu every year since 2021. He talks through the details that mark a Tswalu photograph, and the frame he almost missed.

Tswalu is more than a protected landscape. Through the Tswalu Foundation, it functions as a living laboratory, hosting multiple active research projects that build, over time, into a connected body of evidence about how the southern Kalahari works and how...

CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 9 – Elusive species are notoriously difficult to spot. Exceptional rainfall has made them harder – they thrive but are hidden in dense vegetation. Camera traps reveal populations of bat-eared foxes, Cape foxes, polecats, genets, jackals and...

Tucked into a private valley below the Korannaberg, Tarkuni has always felt set apart. Not just from the rest of Tswalu's vast wilderness, but from the world beyond it. The homestead has recently been refurbished, and the result is a...

At Tswalu, every guest has access to a private guide, a private vehicle, and 118,000 hectares of the southern Kalahari that feels, by design, exclusively theirs. Exclusive-use accommodation takes it further still, extending that privacy from the vehicle into camp,...

CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 8 – Biodiversity starts with the grass. After a record rainfall season, Tswalu's first vegetation research workshop brought together the scientists who know why – and what to watch for next.

CONSERVATION JOURNAL ISSUE 7 - The Korannaberg is the ecological backbone of Tswalu. This month, we explore four of the valleys that cut through the mountain range, wildlife corridors accessible to guides and their guests, and what plentiful rain has...