Aquila Private Game Reserve is not yet another luxury game reserve and lodge - its primary purpose is to offer an educational experience to all who visit.

Over the years, Aquila has gone to massive efforts and expense to source and reintroduce wildlife into the Cape. We are especially proud of our reintroduction of lions and cubs that we saved from a doomed ‘canned lion’ fate. In another of our conservation efforts, we offer our visitors a complimentary educational introduction to our cheetahs, highlighting the plight of the free ranging cheetah and their critically diminishing numbers.

Central to conservation is education and to this end we regularly invite, free of charge, various under privileged schools to the reserve to experience this first hand.

Our efforts to uplift the nearby town of Touwsriver are ongoing. Winter soup kitchens, a sustainable recycling ‘food for litter’ campaign, fundraising events for blankets, pet food and veterinary service rallies and indeed employment are some of the ways we strengthen our ties with the town.

We are very proud to have been in the top 3 finalists of the prestigious FEDHASA responsible tourism Imvelo awards for the past 3 years.