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MADIBA DAY | 67 minutes of Kindness

"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation." Nelson Mandela

We often meet great people, but yesterday we had the privilege of meeting a real-life adventurer, with a flair for nothing else but freedom.

Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the 1976 student uprisings to pay tribute to hundreds of youth who were brutally killed. The theme this year, “Live the Legacy: Towards a socio-economically empowered youth”.

This year we hosted more than 250 youth at our facility on a complimentary basis. We decided to focus on children, schools and projects that cater to those with special needs. We are very proud to be a fully wheelchair accessible facility and are striving to improve our tours to cater towards more varied abilities.

Calling all Teens!

To celebrate this years' Youth Day, we've launched a competition specially for our teens. An amazing 3-day behind-the-scenes visit to our 6 main departments!

The goal is to allow 6 lucky winners time to see, ask and learn about a multitude of career options, to help better equip them for their futures.

Follow the instructions below to submit your entry!

Just recently, The Cheetah Preservation Foundation (CPF), a division of the Cango Wildlife Ranch, was represented in a local Dryland Events Management cycling event where we proudly raced against extinction. The cheetah is the world's fastest land animal and they are dangerously close to extinction. Approximately 6,900 of the big cats remain in the wild. The cheetah’s future is uncertain due to a variety of threats, of which the biggest is habitat loss.

We will be joining forces with Dryland Events Management again this year, and our Operations Director, Hugo du Plessis will be taking part in the 36ONE event from 20 – 22 April 2018.

It’s been a little while since the squeaks of new-borns have had the Cango staff, especially animal-keepers, buzzing! Although the Zoological team had their suspicions that Macy, a 2 year old Slender Tailed Meerkat, might be ‘expecting’ …no one and nothing could prepare the team for the heart-melting, knee-rattling and jaw-dropping level of cuteness that was about to be experienced.

Cango Wildlife Ranch is a multi-accredited zoological facility and we uphold a high animal care standard.
With this we also have the important responsibility of educating the general public on every animal we house.

We always strive to set the bar of animal care as high as can possibly be attained - this is a formal practice which has been moulded for the past 30 years and is validated by various accreditations and practice regulations.

That being said... We have now taken our animal care standards to a whole new level as we are making our commitment public...

International Cheetah Day has become an occasion for all people around the world to celebrate this unique feline icon of speed and grace.

Cango Wildlife Ranch has gratefully accepted not 1 but 2 prestigious awards from PAAZA (Pan-African Association of Zoos & Aquaria)!