Our Story
Chris Roche
Kara cultural festival, Lale’s Camp
Wild Expeditions is a pioneering collective of owner-run safari camps and expeditions operating in remote parts of Africa since the late 1990s.
We are from many countries, backgrounds and experiences but we all share a passionate belief in a few important things.
Firstly, ecotourism, as a central pivot of the wildlife economy, is a critically important driver of African conservation;
Secondly, rural people (often neighbours or owners of conservation areas) are a vital part of modern conservation;
Thirdly, the planet, its ecosystem services and its biodiversity are a shared natural heritage and an understanding of, and connection with, nature is necessary for the future of the human race.
How we started
The Wild Expeditions collective are Zimbabwean, Ethiopian, Malagasy, South African, Batswana and even English and German and all began cutting our ecotourism teeth independently from the mid-1990s. We fell into the industry one way or another (basically driven by a passion for the environment and a desire to share it and our respective cultures with visitors) in a variety of countries and roles … guides, camp managers, accountants, ecologists. Over nearly 30 years we worked all over Africa – east, west, southern, the Indian Ocean islands – and helped build other people’s companies before branching out on our own to start independent camps and companies that allowed us to do things our way in the places we wanted to do them.
Over the years the founders came across each other in remote parts of Ethiopia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Botswana, industry events and elsewhere, and in 2020 we took the plunge and decided that our visions had too much in common for us not to collaborate. And so Wild Expeditions Africa was born.
Explore with us
We love talking to past and future guests and helping plan trips of a lifetime, but we don’t take direct bookings.
Instead, we work with a wide network of specialist tour operators all around the world in order that our guests can liaise with someone in their own jurisdiction, time zone, culture and language to craft the perfect African expedition for them.
Contact us - We’d be happy to help design a trip and recommend a tour operator that is right for you.
