Aru’s Fair Chase Hunting Philosophy

Apr 6, 2017 | Hunting

Aru Game Lodges treasures the principle of fair chase and utilizes this principle throughout our hunting practices. The fair chase principle holds that hunting should be the lawful and ethical way of pursuing an animal without the hunter gaining any unfair advantage...

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....

Professional Hunter Spotlight: Danene van der Westhuyzen

Jul 16, 2015 | Features, Hunting

Danene van der Westhuyzen, who was mentored by her father, began hunting at an early age. Eventually her passion for hunting and a desire to bring about changes in the industry motivated her to discontinue her optometry practice, and become a professional hunter....

Hunting and fishing in Namibia

Jan 30, 2015 | Features, Hunting

Go hunting and fishing in Namibia all in one day. Take a look at this interesting article Shoot a buck? Check. Topple a brace of birds? Check. Land a fish? Check. All in one day? Check. How a Canuck hunter took on a Scottish hunting and fishing challenge—in Africa...

Wings over Kalahari

Dec 11, 2014 | Hunting

Morning at the water hole. We hear them long before we see them. To a beginning it is difficult to hear exactly where the soft, intermittent chucking sound comes from. But after a little while I pick up a group of dots against the azure sky high over the greyish green...

YWH walk & stalk springbok culling trip to ARU Game Lodges in Namibia: True African hunting from a different perspective

Dec 11, 2014 | Hunting

For most hunters, hunting in Africa means: big game and trophy hunting. But what if you like to stalk antelopes, but are not interested in collecting antlers and/or trophies? Or what if you love the almost therapeutic impact of walking through the Western Kalahari,...