Position
An association of privately owned reserves on Kruger’s western boundary: Timbavati at 53,396 hectares, Klaserie at 60,080, Umbabat at 18,000 and Balule at 55,000 — 1,800 square kilometres between them. In June 1993 the fences with the Kruger National Park were removed. Most of the constituent land had been marginal agriculture or hunting farms before.
The scale of the thing
Taken with Sabi Sand, MalaMala, Thornybush and the community-owned reserves of Manyeleti, Letaba Ranch and Makuya, the Greater Kruger is a managed conservation landscape almost the size of Rwanda, in which **more than four thousand private individuals hold some stake**. There is no comparable arrangement in luxury hospitality anywhere: the product sold by the lodges is the direct output of four thousand people agreeing not to fence.
Candour
Figures are from the reserves and from conservation press. An association is an agreement, not a title: it depends on continued consent from thousands of owners with different interests, some of whom hunt and some of whom do not. That fragility is the honest characteristic of the form and is recorded rather than smoothed.
Holdings
What the register records this entity as holding, and in what capacity.