Dinokeng Game Reserve
Overview
Reserve with elephants, rhinos, leopards, buffalo & lions, offering lodges & self-drive safaris.
WELCOME TO DINOKENG GAME RESERVE
Welcome to Dinokeng Game Reserve, the only Big 5 reserve in Gauteng. Just 40 minutes from Pretoria and malaria-free, our reserve offers an extraordinary adventure close to the city. Get ready to embrace the untamed beauty and embark on a journey you’ll never forget.
Dinokeng Game Reserve has recently celebrated its first decade of conservation success. Located within a large metropolis, Dinokeng Game Reserve is poised to become a model for future conservation efforts, showcasing how people and wild animals can live in harmony. Our name, meaning “a place of rivers,” comes from the languages of the baTswana and baPedi people who traditionally inhabited this area.
At Dinokeng Game Reserve, we believe that if we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. Join us in preserving this beautiful reserve for future generations. Become a part of our conservation efforts today!
REHABILITATION & CONSERVATION
A key focus of Dinokeng Game Reserve’s conservation strategy revolves around restoring degraded land returning to former glory – rehabilitation & conservation.
The future of conservation requires a two-pronged strategy, the fight for open ecosystems and pristine wilderness areas, and the development of new buffer models where people and nature grow together in harmony. The Dinokeng Game Reserve – as the only residential Big5 game reserve worldwide within the boundaries of a metro – has the unique opportunity to develop itself into such a model for future conservation.
Conservation in such an environment comes with a number of challenges, which can be turned into successful projects. These range from the eradication of alien plants, management of veld and game – yes, although we adhere to the concept of free roaming and self fending, management interventions are necessary amongst other to avoid in-breeding, especially in smaller reserves – to the protection of endangered species.
Developing a new model means being in uncharted waters. While we are enthusiastic with our vision, we are realistic too. We are well aware that there might be setbacks and that we are not immune to wrong decisions. But we believe in open discussion that allow for lessons to be learnt
We invite you to follow and support our endeavour.
