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Due to the lockdown of South Africa for three weeks from the 25th of March and previous boundary closure of the country, LEO Africa will be closed to volunte...

WIN A CHANCE TO RECEIVE A DISCOUNT AND BE FEATURED IN OUR 2020 CALENDAR! 📸 How? By entering our LEO Africa photo contest! 📸 All previous or current LEO Afr...

"I want to start by giving a special thank you to Sabrina, without her this experience would not be possible. Thank you for everything and the thousand sugge...

Once a week, our volunteer Marzia Sirchia will talk about her time here at LEO Africa! For her last week, she decided to split the post in two parts... Enjoy...

Once a week, our volunteer Marzia Sirchia will talk about her time at LEO Africa! Follow this feed to an insight on our work and to experience life in the bu...

Once a week, for the next four weeks, our volunteer Marzia Sirchia will talk about her time at LEO Africa! Follow this feed to get an insight on our work and...

For the next four weeks, our volunteer Marza Sirchia will talk about her time at LEO Africa! Follow this feed to get an insight on our work and to experience...

Leonard Brandhorst , from The Netherlands, spent 3 weeks at LEO Africa. Check out what he has to say about his time here! "Spend some time with LEO Africa an...

A couple of mornings ago, while busy tracking our female cheetah with cubs, we heard on the radio that a group of lions was walking towards a river crossing ...

On a daily basis, we need to check the female cheetah and her cubs to make sure they are doing well. Sometimes we are lucky (when they are out in the open), ...

It was a cold winter morning in june when we headed out for drive. Very soon we found fresh lion tracks walking down the road, they crossed the river and wen...

LEO Africa’s main focus is on wildlife monitoring, conservation and educating our volunteers and others on sustainable living. Our aim is to reduce the amoun...

This story starts a few months earlier, when a female cheetah was released in the reserve. We were waiting for the moment when she would meet our resident co...

Eva is spending two weeks at LEO Africa. After the first week, she tells us about her experience with us... enjoy her wonderful photos too! “LEO Africa is a ...

Everybody knows cheetahs are fast but how fast? Do you know where the word cheetah comes from? Or their average age in the wild? Or how successful their hunt...

Fundraising updates! The 10 new camera traps arrived on Tuesday 30th October 2018 thanks to "postman" volunteer Pat Coe! We can’t wait to start placing them ...

LEO is a great place to come if you are a lover of birds. Within the Park you can find almost 400 different species! The bee-eater family is a group of beaut...

My name is Walter, I live in Vienna and I’m 75 years old turning 76 in December. You may think life has not much to offer any more? This is my story: I’ve be...

The unexpected happened in front of our eyes on the way back home. The sighting of a lifetime, the dream of many. One of those moments that can’t be retold b...

Elephant: A Keystone Species Elephants are the largest animals on land and play a crucial role in the balance of the African ecosystem due to their dispropor...