Mashatu Game Reserve Wildlife - Botswana
Mashatu Game Reserve provides a refuge for the largest population of elephants on privately-owned land in the world. Known as the relic herds of Shashe, these elephants are living testimony to the great herds that once populated the vast Limpopo valley. Slaughtered for their ivory, elephants were exterminated in the area and remained locally extinct for almost sixty years. Gradually, from about 1947, a few refugee herds began returning to the sanctuary of the Tuli enclave. Today the population on Mashatu is estimated to number more than 700.
In the denser vegetation, leopard, lion, kudu, bushbuck, baboon and more may be found. After nightfall the experience continues with the aid of powerful spotlights - witness the life of creatures such as the civet, genet, porcupine and aardvark. And join the nocturnal carnivores of Tuli on the hunt.
