Although a haven for animals since its inception 21 years ago, it is since October 2015, when Sanbona Wildlife Reserve, in the Klein Karoo near Montagu and Barrydale, was bought by the non-profit CALEO Foundation, that the focus has changed.
The white lions of Sanbona were a talking point in earlier years and, during the reserve's later ownership by Dubai World, there was a greater focus on providing the Big 5 experience. Today a better term than nature reserve might be ‘nature preserve’ as they protect what was originally there. For example,
