The Maputo Special Reserve is a 77 400 hectare area in which you'll find hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, a wide variety of birdlife, zebra, antelope, buck, and if you are lucky you'll spot the elephants.
Maputo Special Reserve was proclaimed a protected area in 1932 with the primary aim of safeguarding coastal elephants. Several years of civil war and severe droughts nearly eradicated all wildlife here. The combined efforts of the governments of Mozambique, the Kingdom of eSwatini and South Africa, as well as conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Peace Parks Foundation and the World Bank, have seen the reserve’s animal populations revitalised.
Species reintroduced over the past eight years include warthog, kudu, nyala and giraffe, as well as a variety of plains game such as impala, waterbuck, blue wildebeest and…
