&Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve was seeded in a vision that flew in the face of convention: responsible tourism as a catalyst of positive change. A testimony to all that is possible when nature is given a chance. This legacy lives in new founder populations of cheetah and rhino across Africa, and the deep partnerships that revive conservation history. Every day.
What lies beneath
A place of restoration and return.
Worlds of wonder.
From the canopies of rare sand forest to the reaches of the Lebombo Mountains; from grass savannas where cheetah hunt, to river-fed waterways and floodplains. To the north, where zebra and buffalo gather, lion are never more than a breath away, while towers of giraffe browse among the thornveld.
Shaped in partnership.
What began decades ago with &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve has grown through collaboration into the Munywana Conservancy: a protected sanctuary shaped by private and community landowners. Within this story of restoration, ancestral land was returned to partner communities, who in turn became stakeholders in securing its future.
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Many threads. One vision.
Every track, sighting and seasonal shift has something to teach us. Across the conservancy, research brings together field observations, new understanding and local knowledge. What is learned here helps shape the decisions that keep this place of the rare in balance.
Quiet evidence.
Behind this place of return, lies another world of stories shaped by years of research, monitoring, collaboration and measured outcomes. Our Phinda Regional Impact Review brings these layers together. The victories and the challenges. For those who wish to delve deeper.
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The true weight of a rhino.
The true weight of a rhino lies in what follows its return: a 35-year legacy of renewal, across three continents.
Keeping it wild.
Places like this just stay with you.
&Beyond‘s partnership with Wild Impact turns our collective commitment for the places and communities we touch into lasting change.
Through Wild Impact, you are invited to join us in this shared endeavour. To protect a landscape that cannot be replaced.
The stories within.
Looking to the future
Cameras capture unseen moments, revealing patterns of animal movement and shaping ways for people and wildlife to live together.
Phinda-the return
They say that difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. Nothing could be closer to the truth for Phinda Private Game Reserve.
30 rhino for 30 years
A journey of renewal. What started as a founder population in 1991 enabled the reintroduction of white rhino to Akagera National Park, Rwanda.
Pangolin Reintroduction
A pioneering collaboration started in 2019, bringing the Temminck’s ground pangolin back to a region where they had been absent for decades.
Race against time
The fastest mammal on earth is vulnerable, but the reserve’s genetically-strong and predator-savvy cheetah hold promise for their future.