The Great Karoo Wilderness is a Gazetted National Protected Environment that shows conservation and farming can thrive together. Located around and in between Camdeboo National Park (Graaff-Reinet) and Mountain Zebra National Park (Cradock) — both managed by South African National Parks (SANParks) — this landscape is protected not through exclusion, but through collaboration with farming families and landowners.

What makes this different? Conservation here happens through real farmers, working together, not through restriction. With expansion toward nearly 1 million hectares, the Great Karoo Wilderness is one of South Africa’s largest privately managed protected environments. It empowers landowners with practical, landscape- and species-based projects that strengthen natural rangeland management and support farming with biodiversity.