Schwarz Afrika Safaris

23/04/2025

29/10/2024

PACHYDERM PERSPECTIVES

The enormity of an elephant certainly can make a fly camp tent look miniscule! But the vast tracts of wildlands that safari hunting programs protect to enable elephants to exist and travel through are hugely important.

Photo Credit: APHA President Paul Stones of

18/08/2024

It's a very special place where you will arise in the pre-dawn darkness to prepare for the day's hunt.

A place that will feel most welcome and refreshing at the end of an exciting and interesting day afield, no two ever the same.

A place where you will lie awake at times, listening to the night sounds, a bit in grateful disbelief that YES! You ARE in wild Africa!

A place that will be forever ingrained in your heart and soul, beckoning you back time and time again.

This place is embodied in the hunting camps that our APHA members are keen to host you in whilst guiding you on your hunt with their decades of experience as passionate professionals. Spectacular settings where the events lived each day become the indelible memories of a lifetime.

Photo Credit: APHA President Paul Stones of , afield in Mozambique's Niassa Reserve.

30/06/2024

SAFARI VIEWS

Whether on foot with the trackers, using the heightened vantage point from a top the car, or glassing from a ridgetop afar, excellent focus on the true hunting experience can be best obtained by booking your hunts with respected APHA members.

Photo Credit: APHA Secretary Graham Jones of

26/05/2024

The third Friday in May is recognized as Endangered Species Day, and this year its theme is "Celebrate Saving Species ".

A salute, therefore, is in order to our APHA members who engage in essential African rhino conservation efforts by maintaining their privately-owned rhinos, both the white (pictured here) and black species. And/or by supporting those landowners who do.

A 2022 scientific paper by 't Sas-Rolfes et al, published in the journal Conservation Letters states that case studies of African rhinos, "suggest that appropriately managed and regulated legal hunting (with trophy exports) can reinforce (rather than compromise) species and habitat conservation". It further states that the removal of a small number of specific males can enhance population demographics and genetic diversity, encourage range expansions, and direct the flow of socioeconomic benefits to locally relevant levels, thereby providing a source of finances necessary for rhino security and positive incentives for communities and private landowners to support more conservation efforts in general.

The current IUCN status of the black rhino is Critically Endangered. The white rhino, as a species is listed as Near Threatened. The northern subspecies of the white rhino, however, became extinct in the wild in 2018, in Kenya, a country that banned safari hunting in 1977.

Photo Credit: Hank's Voice, on location in Namibia, with APHA members Gysbert and Danene Van der Westhuyzen, of

17/05/2024

A claim that is sometimes made is that a common goal shared by both hunters and anti-hunters is that we both want more wildlife. But that shouldn't universally be true.

What we should all agree on is that we want to sustain healthy wildlife populations, in accordance with the habitat resources we have available for them. In which case, less wildlife of some species can result in so much more of others. Yet still be robust and biodiverse.

Photo Credit: Hank's Voice, photographed in Botswana, on location with APHA Member Johan Calitz.

09/05/2024

The sun's passage overhead marks two notable events each day on every hunt. Sunrise begins a new day afield, full of promise and anticipation of what the day might bring, an eagerness to experience what might await with every new step traveled. Sunset begins an earnest time of reflection, recapping the indelible memories made that day, strategizing for the next day's hunt, and savoring the camaraderie of the entire hunting experience, fully present in the here and now, on safari.

Photo Credit: APHA President Paul Stones,

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