The Karoo provides excellent cheetah habitat. Samara is widely-regarded as one of the best places in Africa to view cheetah in the wild, both from a vehicle and on foot.
Estimates suggest that fewer than 7,200 adult cheetahs remain worldwide. Samara’s success with cheetah conservation has seen in excess of 60 individuals living and being born on the reserve, with dozens translocated across sub-Saharan Africa to supplement populations in private protected areas and national parks.