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ECOTOURISM AT PHINDA, SOUTH AFRICA
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Phinda Private Game Reserve is committed to CC Africa’s core principle – Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the People. Phinda is our flagship lodge regarding conservation and community empowerment,
and continues to provide a global benchmark for ecotourism.
- Winner of the Imvelo Responsible Tourism Award 2002
- British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Award (southern region winner) 1997
- In 1991, Phinda undertook the biggest game relocation in a private reserve
in the world at the time
- 14 000 hectares (34 000 acres) of degraded farmland restored to pristine
wilderness
CC Africa's focus:
Community equity, income generation, education and health care are a primary concern.
In consultation with community organisations such as the
Africa
Foundation – originally founded by CC Africa, now a not-for-profit
rural development organisation – Phinda has initiated many successful
community empowerment projects in the Mduku, Nibela and Mnqobokazi communities
surrounding the Reserve.
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PHINDA COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENTS
- Building of 46 classrooms, 19 pre-schools, 3 libraries and 1 science laboratory
- Providing over 150 000 books and educational aids
- Granting USD57 000 worth of bursaries
- Organising 30 CLEF (Community Leaders Education Fund) scholarships worth
USD130 000
- Two Siya Kwamukela students (sponsored by Moët & Chandon) are
at Phinda in their second year of internship
- Implementing Edu-peg – a practical self-corrective early learning
tool – at various primary schools
- Ongoing conservation lessons
- Founding Mduku Clinic and adjacent six-bed pre-natal facility
- An HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention programme
- Distributing 233 Hippo Water Rollers in local communities
- Installing guttering and water tanks at Nontshwiliza Primary School
- Implementing various income generation and small business development projects
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Our guests play a critical role in helping CC Africa realise our dream and vision : to create a model in wise land
management, integrating international travellers and rural people to their mutual benefit, and demonstrating that wildlife
can be preserved on a sustainable basis by all.
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Positive Health Programme:
CC Africa strongly believes in its people and was recently listed as one of three finalists in the Investor in People category of the 2005 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. The October 2005 edition of Africa Geographic featured an article on AIDS and conversation, and highlighted the activities and
programmes that various African companies are implementing in order to increase AIDS awareness and, in doing so, empower the communities taking
care of some of the world's richest wilderness regions.
"Probably the most attractive program ... is that of CC Africa... CC Africa launched a Positive Health program in 2003 and in April and May last year ran two seven-day courses.... Their approach focuses on home-based care, gardens, counseling techniques and gender issues.... The health of the
habitat is critical to the health of the individuals in it.... The conservation industry is uniquely positioned to take the treatment of
HIV/AIDS in radically new directions.... Benefits [of the program] include acquiring 'hard skills' such as maintaining clean water, producing food, and home-based methods of dealing with illnesses that are not life threatening.... It takes only the will of ecologically minded people to make
sure that the wild places are not lost."
Africa Geographic, October 2005
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