Cango Chronicles - Page 7

6 years ago, Venus a female cheetah from Cango Wildlife Ranch, made headlines as one of few animals in the world to under-go eye surgery for bilateral cataracts. Donations came from the world over to help save her deteriorating eyes from only seeing darkness. Doctor Anthony Goodhead (Cape Town) removed the cataracts and large amount of scar tissue from Venus’ corneas. Venus’ surgery was a massive success and transformed her from a scared and nervous animal to a healthy and confident cat, who thrived in her environment at last.

An exotic seabird found in the semi-desert

We are excited to announce a new outlet on our premises!

The Roaring Ostrich offers a wide variety of ostrich products, acclaimed for their health benefits. From famous South African droëwors, to biltong and chews, and even more to our delight, a wide variety of healthy ostrich pet snacks from the Yips & Yaps range!

Due to popular demand we have decided to include our visitors in our Nile Crocodile's daily feeding and enrichment requirements!

It truly is the season to be jolly. Summer has brought with it, new hope, new energy and most-excitedly, new life! We’ve welcomed fluffy cheetah cubs, a flawless baby brown-lemur, Egyptian geese and a baby Flying Fox to the Cango Wildlife Ranch family!

Vultures, though often depicted as mean or dangerous, are actually exactly the opposite. Romantics at heart, they pair for life, and unknown to most public, they are natures hygiene life-line. They play an extraordinary role in keeping deadly diseases like botulism, cholera and anthrax at bay, not only for animals in the wild, but this limits the spread of disease for communities the world over. Southern Africa is home to nine irreplaceable vulture species, of which two are endangered, 6 are critically endangered and one is already extinct.

"The 2 day campaign of living with his vulture brothers, is aimed to raise awareness on living in symbiosis with these sorely misunderstood scavengers. Delano will be proving that the negative stigma is far from the truth and that sharing our planet is much easier than most would like to believe. Without vultures… pests would raid, disease would spread, our waters would become contaminated and the whole ecosystem would be compromised."

Cango Wildlife Ranch was a finalist in the 2018 Sanlam Entrepreneur of the year Awards!

The Entrepreneur of the year Competition is sponsored by South African Power-house Sanlam and Business/Partners. The aim is to honour, benefit and inspire the backbone of the South African economy – our countries’ SME entrepreneurs. The competition elevates and celebrates their unique excellence in entrepreneurship, serving and being an inspiration to others as well as succeeding in the ominous Business World.

A perfect gift for the sweetest animal at our facility. Speckles,our Spotted-Necked Otter, turns 10 on the 30th of September and we're doing all we can to make it memorable!

"Speckles has been due for a home upgrade for some time, and we are ecstatic to say that we now have the space to give it to her! Sadly, we still have a way to go in gathering funds to complete the whole move. This would be the perfect 10th birthday gift for her bright spirit."
Carmen Ellis, Cheetah Preservation Foundation manager.

A little goes a LONG way.

"We wouldn't have been nearly as far as we were in the world without the help we receive from animal-loving and kind-hearted entities like them."