Where big cats roam once more: How one family's rewilding project returned lions and cheetahs to a corner of South Africa's Great Karoo

In the Great Karoo, a vast semi-arid expanse in South Africa, lions and cheetahs once roamed. But then came farms and fences and guns. By the 1840s lions were gone; then by the 1870s, cheetahs too.

Where big cats roam once more: How one family's rewilding project returned lions and cheetahs to a corner of South Africa's Great Karoo
In the Great Karoo, a vast semi-arid expanse in South Africa, lions and cheetahs once roamed. But then came farms and fences and guns. By the 1840s lions were gone; then by the 1870s, cheetahs too.