Shamwari Game Reserve is located 75 km outside
Gqeberha,
Eastern Cape
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South Africa
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An essential focus is the management, development and rehabilitation of an ecosystem that has been returned to a more natural condition after many years of agricultural farming.
It is part of the
Indalo Protected Environment.
Wildlife
Animals that roam around this game reserve include the
Big five game,
hippopotamus
The hippopotamus (''Hippopotamus amphibius;'' ; : hippopotamuses), often shortened to hippo (: hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Sahar ...
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South African giraffe,
Cape mountain zebra,
Southeast African cheetah
The Southeast African cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus jubatus'') is the nominate subspecies, nominate cheetah subspecies native to East Africa, East and Southern Africa. The Southern African cheetah lives mainly in the Kalahari Basin, lowland areas a ...
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wildebeest and
hyena
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Awards and honours
In 2005 the reserve was awarded the
Global Nature Fund Award for Best Conservation Practice.
In popular culture
It was the subject of the 2018
Netflix
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reality TV series ''Shamwari Untamed''.
Shamwari Untamed
Netflix
The British TV series of Safari School was filmed here. The Animal Planet series titled "Shamwari: A wild life" was also filmed at the game reserve. The show highlighted what goes on behind the scenes at the reserve.
Partner organisations
The Born Free Foundation jointly funds a sanctuary at Shamwari that gives lifetime care to several lions and leopards that have been discovered in poor conditions in circuses or zoos around the world. They have two centres on the reserve, one in the north and one in the south.
References
External links
Shamwari's Website
Born Free Foundation
Protected areas of the Eastern Cape
Nature reserves in South Africa
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