
PHOTO ESSAY 2022
HABITAT PROTECTION IN 2022

Seeing our re-wilded giraffe with babies gives us great hope for the future of biodiversity.

Leopards are the apex predators on Ukuwela. Our camera trap survey will inform us how many call our reserve home.

Spot the eyes! That’s two leopard cubs at Ukuwela this year.

We were honored to receive a grant from L’Occitane South Africa who came to help us restore the sand forest.

After years of drought the Msinene river that flows through our reserves is full again sustaining life for countless species.

Here’s Kevin at our Sand Forest nursery. This critically endangered pepper bark tree, along with 5000 other sand forest trees will be planted next year in an effort to restore and expand our existing Sand Forest.

This little one is the newest addition to the zebra herds on our reserves.

These boxes are the first stage in forming an extensive bee colony on our reserves. Ultimately the bees will act as a bio-barrier to elephants keeping them out of our fragile and endangered sand forest.

We love seeing the impala bachelor herds on Ukuwela practice rutting. Perhaps one day one of these will become the dominant male with his own group of females.

This little one, less than two weeks old, is the seventh giraffe to be born from the giraffe we began reintroducing at Ukuwela in 2017.

Reserve Manager, Kevin Jolliffe, standing in front of a 500+ year old Lebombo Wattle tree. Unfortunately most of these magnificent trees in southern Africa have been destroyed.

Late spring and summer is baby season at our reserve. The wet weather brings an abundance of grass for new mothers who will need to produce lots of milk for their young.

We came across a crocodile nest that we thought was long abandoned. To our surprise there were a couple of unhatched fertile eggs. The mother was able to build her nest in this location because we had recently cleared alien plants from the river bank.

These majestic antelopes are only found in a small corner of the African continent. We are proud to offer a few hundred a wild place to call home.

It’s impossible not to fall in love with bushbuck. Note their distinctive white circled bums :)

Bird banding continues with our Reserve Manager Kevin. Many of our volunteer groups get to experience the magic of bird banding and release.
















WILDLIFE SUPPORT IN 2022

It’s not often that a rhino gets a new digital horn. This horn pod contains gps for tracking.

Guest, Will Garrad, helps measure the re-wilded orphan’s horn.

We are proud to support the pangolin reintroduction program on two neighboring reserves by purchasing tracking tags.

Ambassador, Barbara Engel, helps feed an orphaned rhino.

We funded smart collars and other equipment for the K9 anti-poaching team at the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. This reserve continues to be hit hard by rhino poachers.

The animals supported at the rhino orphanage include a hippo!

We continue our support for two regional rhino orphanages by purchasing food, supporting security costs and more.







COMMUNITY SUPPORT IN 2022

Each month we buy and deliver food for school lunches at two community creches. For some children this may be the only cooked meal they receive each day.

We were thrilled to be invited to the 2022 graduation ceremony at the Thelelulwazi creche. Next step primary school!

We were delighted to be able to fund this new building.

They are standing in front of the the place that they had been cooking food.

The teachers were thrilled to finally cook in a real kitchen. They had previously cooked meals outside for 35 children using two iron pots on coals.

The teachers and children wave thanks for a great year!

Here’s our Project Manager, Tori Gray, leaving the creche after delivering their monthly school lunch supplies.







OUR RANGERS IN 2022

These hard working men keep our reserves safe by patrolling the fence lines day and night.

Our rangers had an exciting day moving a cheetah that arrived from our neighbor, Phinda. It needed to be safely returned.

We were able to fund 85 pairs of boots for rangers working in government parks in our region for World Ranger Day.

Here’s our rangers patrolling the corridor section of our reserve. This year brought lots of rain and a full flood plain.

Our wildlife rangers are the best deterrent we have to keep poachers out of our reserve.

Here’s Bheki, Musa, Siya and Sam.

Our wildlife rangers must continually look for wire snares illegally laid by poachers hoping to catch and kill our wildlife.







THE GREEN MAMBAS IN 2022

We are extremely proud to employ fourteen community women, and their driver, to restore habitat acre by acre at our reserve.

Senzeleni works hard to pull out the potato creeper strangling the floor of the endangered sand forest.

The critically endangered sand forest floor should look clear and open, littered only with fallen leaves. It took the Green Mambas 3 months to remove these vines.

Spending time with friends in nature is an added benefit of being a Green Mamba.


The Green Mamas look so smart in their custom t-shirts.

Wild Tomorrow Ambassador, Charles Chessler, gets a selfie with the Green Mambas.







A FEW OF OUR VOLUNTEERS IN 2022

Our partners at PA Rhino Conservation Advocates joined us in the field in July.

Here’s our very own Annic running for Wild Tomorrow’s 2022 marathon team. Our team of 14 runners raised over $60,000 for our conservation work.

Jeff Steen, Deputy State Game Warden for Pennsylvania’s wildlife, proudly running for Wild Tomorrow’s Team Elephant!

This was our first year as a Climate Ride charity partner. We love this organization, who organizes multiple bike rides across the world to benefit environmental charities like ours. Special thanks to Rod and Anne Rolett.

Our very own Board Member, Louis Buckworth, organized a trip for his friends to visit Ukuwela to take our Ukuwela Homestead project to the next phase. Watch this space for updates!

Here’s the family helping to trim the horns of recently released orphaned rhinos.

Our photographic volunteers had a life-changing trip this April using their cameras to help people and wildlife.

A group of young volunteers from Atlanta, led by Fledge Fiamingo of Son Safaris, rolled up their sleeves for a super impactful volunteer trip. Here they are half way through building a community veggie garden.







