Located in the vast expanse of South Africa’s Great Karoo, Samara Karoo Reserve is a model of conservation and environmental restoration. Samara’s story is a distinctive one, a passionate rewilding project that began back in 1997. Samara’s founders, Sarah and Mark Tompkins, were inspired by tales of a long-lost Karoo, a wilderness in which millions of springbok once grazed, the now-extinct quagga roamed, and black-maned lions reigned supreme. Over a five-year period, the couple purchased 11 farms, totalling 27,000 hectares, with the aim of returning the land to its natural state and reintroducing the wildlife that had disappeared as a result of centuries of farming and hunting.

Through habitat restoration and animal reintroductions, supported by ecotourism, they have successfully reintroduced the first cheetah, black rhino, elephant, and lions to have inhabited these lands in over a century, and have become

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