South African game reserves forced to cull animals as Covid halts tourism

Tourist lodges run out of cash to feed and care for the animals on their land and thousands of villagers lose their jobs

Impala run through the thorn bush, ibis fly above the lake and lightning forks over the horizon as a storm rolls in from the Drakensberg mountains.

The visitors driven across the 10,000 or more hectares of the Nambiti game reserve in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province see what they think is an unchanged, and unchanging natural landscape.