Property 0626: Shares in Private Game Reserve Tuli Block Botswana
Introduction
This is an opportunity for investors to aquire a shareholding in an exclusive private Game Reserve, situated in the famous Tuli block of Botswana – The land of the giants!
Hassle free investment; Established accomodation and Game viewing vehicles ready for your use.
There are presently two shares available at a price R3 Million per share.
Location
The Private Game Reserve extends over some 11,000 hectares of privately owned land, situated in the core of a prime wildlife area in the Eastern corner of Botswana, and bordered by two of the great rivers of Africa, the Limpopo and the Shashe rivers.
Together with other private Game Reserves such as Mashatu, this Reserve forms part of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve (Notugre) a recognized wildlife conservancy together spanning over some 75,000 hectares.
At just over 500km from Johannesburg the Reserve is easily accessed by both road and by air.
Accommodation and Use
There are four lodges available for shareholder use.
• Three of the Four lodges operate on an exclusive basis and each shareholder has the right to a total of Four Six day slots at the exclusive lodges each year.
• The Fourth lodge has more beds and so operates in the guise of a conventional lodge; Each Shareholders is allocated a total of 120 bednights in this Loge per year.
Each lodge is unique in style and location, providing shareholders with a variety of destinations and experiences. All the accom
modation at the exclusive use lodges is on a self-catering basis. If required, a fully catered service is available at the larger river lodge.
Each lodge has one vehicle and ranger available for shareholders use, the larger lodge, has 2 vehicles. The maximum number of vehicles that may traverse the Reserve at any one time is 7.
History and Regional developments
The Northern Tuli Game Reserve is a wildlife conservation area protected as a wilderness of savannah, riverine forests, marshland, open plains and sandstone cliffs. It is not only a unique wilderness area with an abundance of African wildlife, but also has a rich archaeological history.
The region was inhabited by Stone Age man, as the forerunner to a series of civilisations including the Mapungubwe culture of the 12th and 13th centuries, In the 1940’s an international game reserve was planned, the conservation status of the region has gone from strength to strength and the concept of establishing a Trans Frontier Conservation Area (“TFCA") was first mooted in the mid 1990's.
In 2009, the Greater Mapungubwe Trans Frontier Conservation Area ("TFCA") was announced by the Ministers of Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Ecology and Wildlife of the Area
The Northern Tuli Game Reserve is on the eastern edge of the Kalahari ecosystem and at the same time forms the western boundary of the bushveld system. As a result of the diverse range of vegetation and soil types in the Reserve. The resultant abundance and variety of game is comparable to any other wildlife region in Africa.
The Reserve supports a considerable range and quantity of mammal, reptile and insect species and is well known for what is believed to be the largest concentration of free roaming elephants on private land in Africa.
The wildlife include lion, cheetah, leopard, hyena, bat eared fox, jackal, porcupine, aardvark, civet, genet and other members of the cat family. There is wide variety of antelope species including waterbuck, kudu, eland, impala, steenbuck, duiker, bushbuck, as well as large concentrations of wildebeest and zebra. Other animals include bushpig, warthog, ostrich, and giraffe. The variety of ecosystems make for a bird watchers' paradise. In excess of 350 bird species may be seen. |
