Simba 4x4 Tours and Safaris

04/05/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WYwewPAmo

On the 25th of April 2023 Mark Montgomery was attacked by a 3.5m crocodile while leading a group of trailists on Leg 5 of The Kruger Trail.It happened a mere...

11/01/2023

This rescue was amazing. This looks like it could have been Zimbabwe, Kenya or even Zambia. Unfortunately it was sent to me with no information

10/01/2023

Typical Kalahari dunes with parallel dunes with "passages" or valleys between them one dune after the next for miles on end

Good Morning South Africa!
This photo by landscape photographer, Solly Levi, entitled ‘Kalahari Streets’ was one of the most popular pics we featured in 2022.

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There is beauty everywhere.

10/01/2023

Good Morning South Africa!
This photo by landscape photographer, Solly Levi, entitled ‘Kalahari Streets’ was one of the most popular pics we featured in 2022.

www.MountainPassesSouthAfrica.co.za
There is beauty everywhere.

10/01/2023

Is this scene not absolutely stunning?

Good Morning South Africa!
This photo by landscape photographer, Solly Levi, entitled ‘Kalahari Streets’ was one of the most popular pics we featured in 2022.

www.MountainPassesSouthAfrica.co.za
There is beauty everywhere.

24/11/2022

So sad to see an old giant go......

One of Tsavo’s iconic and majestic Super Tuskers named Lugard, had recently died of old age, accelerated by the severe drought!

Lugard’s 3-day old carcass was observed from the air by Tsavo Trust’s Conservation Officer & Pilot, Joseph Kimaile on 21st November 2022 within Tsavo West National Park during a routine reconnaissance flight. An immediate ground response was initiated by KWS and Tsavo Trust to verify the situation.

The joint team confirmed the carcass was indeed that of the famous Super Tusker called Lugard and that the cause of death was natural. Both tusks were intact and recovered.

RIP Lugard!

📷 Joseph Kimaile / James Lewin / Nick Haller / Richard Moller

19/10/2022

How much and how fast can an elephant drink? Ain't those tusks just AMAZING??

Original videographer and location unknown

17/08/2022

Scarey...

14/08/2022

Isn't nature just wonderful? And then you get fools who go and kill these beautiful animals....

10/08/2022

Make your own conclusions after watching this:

In the face of a growing insistence that the African elephant is ‘endangered’ and that it is ‘facing extinction’, this documentary is designed to give you an...

29/07/2022

P.I.P. Anton, you were a conservation hero to the end.
Deepest condolences to his family, friends, co-workers, and employers. From the management and customers of Simba 4x4 Tours and Safaris.

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/wildlife-warrior-and-game-ranger-anton-mzimba-shot-dead-20220727

Game ranger Anton Mzimba, who fought poaching efforts over the years to keep wildlife safe, was shot and killed this week.

03/06/2022

Amazing!!

14/05/2022

Some good news amid all the gloom!!

The Bazaruto Archipelago National Park has recorded 4 319 turtle hatchlings and 72 nests, the highest recorded in its 20 year monitoring.

14/05/2022

What is happening here is so sad....

In May 2019, the South African Police Service initiated an undercover operation called 'Operation Crassula' to uncover illegal plant poaching.

14/05/2022

Great work by the authorities!!

Two succulent poachers were arrested in the Richtersveld Transfrontier Park while trying to steal the endangered halfmens succulents.

14/05/2022

About time,. this should have happened years ago. It is a pity they did not get an effective 50 years instead, they deserved it.....

Two brothers, Gideon and Nicholaas van Deventer have been sentenced to 10 and 15 years after both pleaded guilty to rhino poaching

13/05/2022

What a disaster!

How could Botswana allow this? Last I heard, President Masisi had issued a proclamation to ban all hunting in Botswana....

While hunters celebrate and conservationists mourn the killing of two of Botswana’s largest-tusked elephants, a biodiversity tragedy is waiting in the wings.

12/05/2022

What an incredible sighting this was. In the end they won....

06/02/2022

Lovely setting where this happened. One is used to seeing this happening in the bushveld or in the Kalahari.
I bet you that that brown hyena got the fright of its life.....

A young playful lioness spotted a brown hyena foraging in the distance and went into hunt mode. It looks grim for the brown hyena, but stay tuned for the ending when this lion gives the hyena the fright of its life.

04/02/2022

Lucky boy....

It may be king of the jungle, but when it comes to the water, the lion has not got a chance against a crocodile.

15/01/2022

False sympathy will not help Namibia’s people or their elephants.....

Animal rights groups are deliberately targeting Namibia’s community-based conservation model because it derives part of its income from trophy hunting. This is despite the model being hailed internationally as one of Africa and the world’s major conservation success stories.

15/01/2022

Read these accounts of the vast numbers of springbuck that migrated across the Karoo in search of water and green grassy plains around 150 yesrs ago.

Death and destruction followed in the wake of cavalcades of trekbokke in the 19th century and earlier as millions of springbok followed their noses and instincts in search of water. Gourmands prize their fine meat today, but the legendary Springbok Migrations of the great plains of the Karoo are lar...

13/12/2021

A consolation, but the rhinos are dead nevertheless....

https://www.sapeople.com/2021/12/13/suspected-rhino-poachers-from-inverdoorn-massacre-arrested-headed-to-court/

The rhino poaching suspects in the devastating massacre last week of four rhino on a private game reserve – Inverdoorn – near Ceres in the Klein Karoo, have been arrested and will soon appear in court, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS). There was shock and outrage last week af...

13/12/2021

Good news for all visitors to South Africa for their various trips home. At the same time it is also good news for South African visiting outside the country!

South Africa’s Competition Commission has reached an agreement with two major laboratories Ampath and Lancet to reduce the COVID-19 PCR test cost from 850 to 500 rand (about 31 U.S. dollars). The Competition Commissioner Tembinkosi Bonakele announced this on Sunday at a press briefing.

10/12/2021

A look into the past - Dr Dean Allen

Wow, just look at those cars........

10/12/2021

This is so evil and so very sad.....

Four rhinos were found shot by last night on Inverdoorn Private Game Reserve about two and half hours from Cape Town.

04/11/2021

He tried his luck!!

26/10/2021

Amazing!
Stamina and endurance.....

https://www.iol.co.za/news/environment/follow-this-birds-great-migration-from-the-free-state-to-finland-in-42-days-4b37a3ad-30e6-4f1e-87cc-577b6826f006?fbclid=IwAR0a9JEKKEn0x1TVgewDodj-ZI-e_6icMN83jpTDhUh_JGacOaLhxau22PY

Researchers fitted a GPS tracking device onto a European honey buzzard and were quite surprised to find just how far the bird flew over its seasonal migrations.