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Eco Living (EL): How did Mantis come to be on the sustainable tourism path?
Paul Gardiner (PG): The business was born out of a passion for conservation rather than being a business that decided to go down the sustainable tourism route. The founder of Mantis, Adrian Gardiner (my father), has been passionate about wildlife since he was a child and, in the 1980s, he had a vision to restore and rewild a large area of degraded farmland in the Eastern Cape.
The first big game arrived in 1990 and, over the next decade, elephant, rhino, antelope, giraffe and more arrived. Today, the land is a thriving
