The Camdeboo Conservancy is a direct neighbour to the Camdeboo National Park surrounding Graaff-Reinet. The Conservancy makes up a large section of the park’s buffer zone to the south-west and therefore is a partner in ensuring the park is safeguarded as an ecosystem. The majority of the farmers in the Conservancy are signed up members of the Great Karoo Wilderness. 

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 difference?  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.