ShamWarI.com Is the homepage of the Game Reserve with photo gallery
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Welcome to Shamwari Game Reserve in the heart of the malaria free Eastern Cape South Africa.
Description
In 1990 Adrian Gardiner, a successful businessman from Port Elizabeth, decided to buy a small farm to use as a weekend getaway for his family. The piece of land he bought consisted of only 1 200 hectares, but boasted a number of antelope including bushbuck, kudu and duiker. By this time drought had ravaged the countryside and farmers were experiencing financial difficulties, which resulted in land coming onto the market at very reasonable prices. Soon his small piece of land had grown to 7 000 hectares.
Adrian started reading C J Skead’s authoritatively researched historical accounts of the Eastern Cape, as well as journals and historical diaries of the 1820 Settlers. He was amazed to see this part of the Eastern Cape being described as one of the richest wildlife zones in Africa. Early hunters and pioneers such as Sparrman and Cornwallis Harris first documented the legendary “Big Five” in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Well-documented reports dating back to the 18th century indicate a time when vast herds of Cape buffalo and zebra, black wildebeest, black rhino, leopard and prides of Cape lion freely roamed the hills and valleys.
However, by 1853 the Settlers had wiped out most of the game and cleared vast areas of forest and thicket to create pastures for cattle, goats and sheep. By the turn of the century the land had been degraded and the soil depleted of its nutrition, through overgrazing and overstocking.
Contact
- Lake Pleasant Hotel (Pty) Ltd
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- Tokai Western Cape
- ZA 7945
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- +27 21 713 2230
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