What's It Like Being A Shareholder?

Limpopo-Lipadi shareholders and their friends create and enjoy their own wildlife adventures - an experience which goes so much further than the usual tourist safari allowing you to enjoy your passion for nature the way you like it. It is your game reserve and so there are no inflexible game drive schedules or programs that you have to stick to. You decide when and where you want to go. This freedom creates an unrivalled sense of adventure and exploration that the great African pioneers must have experienced in the hey day of "Darkest Africa".

Shareholders are encouraged to become a knowledgeable field guide in their own game reserve. Upon completion of a reserve orientation, first aid and 4x4 driving course, you can qualify as a guide to your friends. This entitles you to self-drive a land cruiser without a ranger if you wish, whilst exploring the many facets of the reserve on your own.

So you may choose to...

• drive your own guests or drive with a game ranger
• go tracking with the anti-poaching team on foot
• go walking in the bush with a ranger to enjoy a new dimension to game viewing or birding 
• picnic in the bush or sleep out in a hide on your own
• go island hopping, rock running, or hiking in the dry Limpopo riverbed during winter
• explore the gushing potholes, swim in the pools or fish in the Limpopo during summer
• visit archaeologically rich sites on the reserve
• go jogging, mountain biking or hiking up the mountain
• enjoy wildlife photography, landscape painting or star gazing
• ask the rangers to teach you to identify the most common trees on Limpopo-Lipadi, or some of the tracks of animals, birds or lizards
• braai with other shareholders at the central facility or any of our equipped picnic spots along the river
• read a book next to the swimming pool or in the comfort of your luxurious riverside lodge
• or simply bask in the peace and tranquility of the African bush!

The extent of your involvement in the conservation projects at Limpopo-Lipadi is your choice. During any visit you can check with the reserve General Manager to see what activities you could participate in. It might be game counting at water holes, game capturing when animals are moved or sold, new game introductions, wild dog inoculations, plains clearing, infrastructure development activities or social responsibility programs with the local villages through Motse  - the choice is yours, whether you participate for 2 days, 2 weeks or 2 months. Why not read about what some of our shareholders have experienced on the reserve in the news blog?

But your involvement doesn't have to end when you return home. We operate a number of shareholder projects that you can take part in wherever you are, whether you want to help edit the GPS data that make up our reserve maps, contribute to online content generation through the news blog or Facebook page, share photos and videos through the website, expand our bird species lists based on your sightings, discuss a variety of topics with other shareholders in the online forum, or even try and generate identification tools for our leopard population. These are just some of the ongoing projects and activities available to our shareholders and another part of what makes Limpopo-Lipadi unique, in fact the possibilities are as endless as the imagination of our shareholders!

If all of this excites and inspires you then we would very much like to talk further. Explore further online to find out more or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .