Tour de Hawange Update

Tour de Hawange Update

Update 10th May  Preparations for the Tour de Hwange are going well. The riders are ready after weeks of hard training and are now very excited to participate in the event. The group of riders call themselves the “Trotting Porkers” as in the beginning they took up...
Tour de Hwange 2018

Tour de Hwange 2018

For many years, Friends of Hwange Trust has been working to provide water for wildlife in Hwange National Park. This amazing conservation haven has no surface water in the dry winter months from April to November, so water must be pumped from underground sources to...

Painted Dog Rescue – February 2018

Early last week a snared painted dog was spotted by some guides at the Kashawe Wilderness Camp in Sinamatella. The dog was a member of an un-collared pack of 18 dogs that had been moving around that area. Because painted dogs are notoriously difficult to track down...

Recent Hwange Visit

How lovely it was to see the park looking so lush on a recent trip to Hwange. Some early widespread rain has clothed the veld in glorious shades of green. Delicate new Mopane leaves, waxy and glistening, range in colour from pale yellow and orange to deep russet red,...

Darting Hat Trick

With the continuing deterioration of the socio-economic situation in the country, we have seen an increase of snaring for bushmeat in and around the boundaries of Hwange National Park. Animals caught in snares are doomed to a terrible, slow, agonizing death. The...