A Christmas Letter

Dec 16, 2025 | Features, Hunting

https://youtu.be/91Ar1G8hyE8 From a quiet hotel room in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where I write these words on our off day from CITES CoP20, I find myself confronted by an overwhelming silence. No bird song greets the morning. No wind strokes my hair. No rustle of life...

Happy Holidays From ARU!

Dec 21, 2021 | Features

Dear friends of ARU, It’s the time of year where we are spending some quality time filled with love and laughter with our nearest, and it is also a time to reflect on the small part we play in the world as we know it. ARU and the ARU family takes our role seriously....

Rites of Passage on the Sands of Africa

Jun 26, 2020 | Features, Hunting

Rites of Passage on the Sands of Africa by Aram von Benedikt  My young son was the hunter, his small hands wrapped capably around the stock of my Nosler rifle, having left his own at the truck. Dust rose from underfoot, and the scent of the thornveld bit at our...

Trying to Unravel the Secrets of the Namibian Leopard

Nov 30, 2017 | Features

In bright sunlight the leopard slowly and quietly stalks up to a waterhole. He calmly sits down and watches the surrounding bush, alert and ready, his ears catching even the softest of sounds. When he spots a hartebeest approaching, the big cat slowly bends down...

We are more than just hunters

Apr 18, 2016 | Features, Hunting

At Aru Game Lodges, we believe we are more than just hunters. There has been an obvious tension between hunters and anti-hunters for some time now with both interest groups claiming that their intention and methods are the best to protect nature and its wildlife....

Aru takes the lead in stamping out Elephant and Rhino poaching

Jul 27, 2015 | Features

“Illegal poaching in Africa continues to be a big problem for the continent. Recent statistics indicate that nearly 35,000 African elephant a year fall to the poachers’ slaughter. That is one animal every 15 minutes, 96 elephant per day”. To bring scale to...