Selinda Concession

The private Selinda Concession borders the Chobe and Okavango and covers a large region, which includes a large area of the Selinda spillway, a channel linking the Linyanti marshlands with the Okavango and now running once more.

Wildlife

Lion, hyena and numerous species of ungulates are found here on a permanent basis. From May or June onwards, game numbers rise as animals move in search of the permanent water sources of the lagoon and Kwando-Linyanti.

The dry open grassland of Selinda make viewing Wild Dog a great experience here and Selinda is one of the best places in Botswana for viewing the much sought after Wild Dog. This region of Botswana is also ideally suited for Cheetah.

Wildebeest and zebra arrive in numbers around May, with large herds of elephant and buffalo arriving a month or two later and remaining until the end of the yea.

About the Linyanti Concession

Linyanti Wildlife Reserve is a private game reserve on the western border of Botswana’s Chobe National Park, protecting the area around the Linyanti River, which includes a forested interior and the Savuti Channel.

Linyanti is a large game reserve in an area very rich in wildlife - Botswana at its wildest and most remote. Linyanti is an enormous reserve within a park, teeming in wildlife, covering an area of 125,000 hectares.

There are only a handful of luxury safari camps in Linyanti and all are accessed by flight, which creates an unrivalled atmosphere of remoteness and seemingly unlimited expanse.

There are 3 main features of the Linyanti Concession:

1. The Linyanti River.
2. The woodlands of the interior.
3. The Savuti Channel (famous as a sporadic and unusual watercourse).

Eco System

Other aspects of the concession include floodplains, grasslands, exotic palm islands and scrub vegetation. Together with the 3 main features, the entire region harbours one of the densest, dry season concentrations of elephant in Botswana.

It has been estimated that Linyanti must have several thousand elephants roaming around at any one time, and it is not hard to understand in this day and age of conservation, this phenomenon has become one of the main attractions for travellers to northern Botswana.

Although the concession lies within the greater Chobe National Park, it has a distinctly different eco-system. The Swamp has formed in the corner where the permanently- flowing Linyanti River takes a 90° turn, forming channels, lagoons and a lush area of reed beds, providing permanent water to the region.

The lush and attractive vegetation at Linyanti includes jackal berry, leadwood, sausage trees and other hard woods.