Selous Game Reserve

Once part of a single reserve covering over 50,000 km² — among the largest protected wildlife areas ever established in Africa — Selous was divided in 2019, when its northern, river-fed heartland along the Rufiji became the separate Nyerere National Park. What remains under the Selous name is the reserve’s vast southern and western miombo woodland, a rolling, lightly watered wilderness that forms the northern anchor of the Selous–Niassa Wildlife Corridor, the single most important cross-border artery for elephants moving between Tanzania and Mozambique. It is named for Frederick Courteney Selous, the British explorer and naturalist buried here where he fell in 1917, and today the reserve is managed almost entirely as licensed hunting concessions, with only a handful of blocks continuing to offer the walking safaris and mobile tented camps that once made Selous famous among purists. At Tutoke we work only with the non-consumptive concessions, positioning small walking-safari camps along the dry sand rivers where wildlife concentrates in the cooler months.