Pafuri Camp bags an Imvelo Award
03. Jun, 2009
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The seventh annual Imvelo Responsible Tourism Awards once again recognised the work done by Safari & Adventure Co. in the field of responsible and sustainable tourism. In the category ‘Best Practise: Economic Impact‘, Pafuri Camp was the independent winner with acknowledgement given to its employment equity, training and skills transfer and meaningful revenue sharing agreement with its partners in the Makuleke Community.
The Imvelo Awards, southern Africa’s premier responsible tourism awards, recognise and encourage best practise in ecotourism in the southern Africa. Pafuri Camp has set new standards for community engagement and involvement in joint venture ecotourism in South and southern Africa. Enormous strides have been made in training and skills development since its opening and revenues to the community continue to grow as the business develops. It is a project of which Safari & Adventure Co. is justly proud.
Walking trails
Safari & Adventure Co. is excited to announce the addition of the Pafuri Walking Trail to the existing Pafuri camp offering. This 3-night 4day trail will allow guests an opportunity to explore what is perhaps the best area for walking in the entire Kruger National Park, an area blessed not only with exceptional biodiversity but also spectacular scenery, seasonally high densities of many large mammal species, a feeling of wilderness, and a sense of history.
Each night, the overnight camp will be situated in a different location and guests will hike from one camp to the next, allowing them the opportunity to experience the true remoteness of this diverse concession.
Pafuri Elephant Collaring
One of the most hotly debated conservation topics in South Africa revolves around the management of the elephant population in the Kruger National Park. Simply put, the country’s top scientists have decided that there simply is not enough hard data to make critical decisions. To this end, Pafuri Camp initiated a satellite collaring exercise of elephants in the Makuleke Concession of northern Kruger, home to a high dry season density of elephants. This project will go a long way towards helping understand the seasonal movements of elephants, their impact on various vegetation types and their relationship to water sources.
To date one bull elephant has been collared with a sophisticated satellite collar. A further 11 elephants will be collared during the course of 2009. The preliminary findings have been fascinating. Shortly after being collared the young bull, Mapimbi, walked 77km (in a straight distance) over a period of 2 days. He then spent three months in the Shingwedzi area before heading 36km north in a straight line in one day and now appears to be returning to his 2008 dry season haunts.
A group of 8 guests will be able to experience a capturing and collaring operation of two separate elephants over a 3 night stay at Pafuri Camp.
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