There is a different kind of silence in a private game reserve in the Eastern Cape.
It settles early in the morning. Before vehicles move. Before the day begins to announce itself.
This journal is where we place the stories that grow out of that silence.
Not guides. Not itineraries. Not marketing.
Just moments from the land – conservation work, wildlife returns, seasons shifting, elephants walking home.
Bellevue Forest Reserve is part of the greater Addo landscape. What happens here matters. Slowly. Over time.
We write it down.
Travel · Africa It’s the end of March, and I’m in Europe. And like so many others, I’m dreaming of being somewhere so much warmer. Sitting bundled up in layers...
A truly Good News conservation story It’s been six months since joyous news was welcomed by the conservation and tourism communities of the successful translocation of a formerly captive elephant...
By Staff Reporter A remarkable journey of resilience, loyalty, and conservation is unfolding in Southern Africa with the story of Tswale, a bull elephant whose life has become a symbol...
It’s a new dawn for Tswale the elephant as he finally embraces the full freedom of life in the wild. Tswale, a middle-aged bull who has spent more than two...
From its origins to becoming a prime eco-tourism and wildlife conservation hub in Greater Addo, here’s the story of Bellevue Forest Game Reserve. Bellevue Forest Game Reserve, in the Greater...
Some stories take years.
The return of elephants. The release of lions. The slow rebuilding of habitat after drought. None of it happens in a single headline.
This space holds those stories as they are – steady, imperfect, ongoing.
Newborn calves finding their footing.
Dust lifting in late light.
Giraffe moving through acacia without urgency.
The journal exists for these small, real moments – the kind that shape a safari long before a camera is raised.
