Adventures With Elephants (Wild Life Interactions Limpopo)

About Us

We protect wildlife through education

As numbers of elephants have decreased by some 350% in the last 70 years and by 110 000 elephants in the last ten years (Great Elephant Census) due to poaching and habitat loss, we are honoured to have saved a few. We are even more thrilled to be able to connect you with Elephants through our unique interactions, so that you might see them for what they are, and therefore think a little bit more about their future, and indeed many other species, in an ever changing and modernising Africa.

Adventures with Elephants is a place of inspiration and joy. Our beautiful reserve in South Africa is home to many types of wildlife from zebra; giraffe and warthogs; to meerkats. Our biggest privilege is caring for our beautiful African elephants who were destined to be culled. Our latest additions, Zambezi and Bela, were born to mothers Shan and Mussina and are our 6th and 7th family members.

We offer close up and personal encounters with our elephants carried out with cheerfullness and respect for the welfare of both our majestic residents and you our guest. Here you will learn all about our continent's gentle giants, their intelligence, their bodies, their behaviour. You will leave humbled and moved, and a lifetime ambassador of holistic wildlife conservation.

Together with giraffe, wildebeest, red hartebeest, kudu, waterbuck, impala, eland, zebra, ostriches and warthogs, our elephants share 300 hectares of bushveld. They have access to 2 large dams and over 40 shrub and tree species can be found. In addition our elephant have access to a further 2000 hectares to free range feed. Adventures with Elephants is situated in the Waterberg district of the Limpopo Province in South Africa. The area is characterised by deciduous forest or bushveld and there are archeological finds dating to the Stone Age.

Keeping our elephants healthy, happy and stimulated is an absolute priority for us at AWE and we work continuously on building and keeping trust and rapport between us and our charges. When not interacting with the public the elephants are left to be elephants on our 300ha game reserve where they can free range feed, play, or bathe. Besides making sure they exercise regularly, and are well fed and watered, we use daily training and props like balls to keep them mentally agile and used to small things around their feet.

We supplement their diets with Bana grass, oats and lucerne, game pellets, fruit and vegetables during the year and conduct daily health checks. They sleep in large stables where they are monitored, protected and fed throughout the night.