These are believed to be the first wild lion cubs born in the Southern Cape for the last 150 years. The award winning, Western Cape Private Game Reserve has embarked on an ambitious conservation project to restore and rehabilitate the 11000-hectare fynbos reserve by populating it with indigenous game. The birth of the two lion cubs marks the success of the efforts implemented to encourage the self-sustaining wild lion pride of Gondwana.
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Many of Gondwanas’ guides have tried to catch a glimpse and get a photo of the new-borns for some time, but it was Gondwana’s senior field guide Forget Ndlovu who beat them to it and struck luck on the morning of 23 November when he found the pride on a zebra kill just above the den.
The cubs were in full view playing and harassing their mother and other members of the pride. This area has become affectionately known as “Pride Rock” where the pride, together with the cubs, tend to congregate for fresh air in the afternoon on display for all to see.
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Set amidst rolling hills and indigenous fynbos, Gondwana started six years ago with Mark and Wendy Rutherfoord''s dream of transforming cattle and sheep farms into an 11 000-hectare eco-safari destination. Only 4 hours from Cape Town along the Garden Route, and now restored to its natural beauty of open grasslands, undulating valleys and fynbos.