Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve, is located approximately 30 km north-east of East London, and is situated within an area of 4500 hectares encompassing five different

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s in the Wild Coast region of

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's Eastern Cape province. It is home to four of the

Big Five game In Africa, the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, black rhinoceros, African bush elephant, and African buffalo. They are examples of charismatic megafauna, featuring prominently in popular culture, and are among the most famous of ...

; namely lion, buffalo, leopard and

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; as well as giraffe,

zebra Zebras (, ) (subgenus ''Hippotigris'') are African equines with distinctive black-and-white striped coats. There are three living species: the Grévy's zebra (''Equus grevyi''), plains zebra (''E. quagga''), and the mountain zebra (''E. zebr ...

, a variety of antelope, and many other smaller species.

History

Inkwenkwezi, which translates from

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to mean "under the stars", grew out of a dream of the

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-born Stanton brothers, Graham and Keith. Graham Stanton purchased the first of several properties in the

Chintsa Chintsa, alternatively rendered Cintsa, is a village in the Wild Coast region of the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. It is situated 38 km north-east from East London East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points ...

valley area which were eventually combined to form Inkwenkwezi, in 1983.

Species

* Inkwenkwezi is home to several lions most of which are extremely rare white lions. One of the tawny females carries 50% of the white

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and has had both brown and white litters.

External links

Global White Lion Protection Trust

Eastern Cape Provincial Government

Inkwenkwezi Website
{{Eastern Cape Provincial Parks Protected areas of the Eastern Cape

History

Species

See also

External links