Mabula Pro Safaris is the brain child of Christo Gomes, whose love of hunting he inherited from his father, Henry. Christo shot his first Kudu when he was 8 years old, and now 32 years later, he runs a highly successful hunting outfit with a fine hunting success rate, excellent trophy quality, and many satisfied clients.

Seventy percent of Mabula Pro Safaris' clients return for more hunting, some as many as four
times over. This indicates how satisfied they were with their experience,

While Christo Gomes is dedicated and skilled hunter, he has an abiding love of nature and all it's wild creatures. Christo is living proof of the fact that hunters today are among the world's best conservationists; for he has enormous respect for the environment, and is deeply committed to wildlife and habitat conservation, ethical hunting traditions & practices as an affirmation of the ecology, and hunting safety.
 

Africa - a majestic continent, filled with unspoiled beauty, and mystical silence.  A prehistoric continent, thought to be the cradle of mankind, and yet still seemingly untouched by human hand.  For it is in Africa that the animals still carry within them the ancient mysteries of a forgotten age,  as they roam free upon an untouched world still at the dawn of time.

Think of Africa .... and you think of its elephant, its lion, buffalo, sable antelope, kudu and nyala.

A recent game capture was organised to manage population sizes and ensure a varied gene pool.

Africa is changing,... inevitably.  It's wilderness areas have shrunk, and its wild animals are mostly kept in game reserves now.  Hunting is strictly controlled. Yet, due to conservation efforts increasing game number, it is still possible to experience big game hunting in Africa, to experience the heart-stopping thrill of coming face-to-face with a lion, a rhinoceros, a magnificent kudu, and many other exquisitely beautiful animals. 

There is no question but that hunting in South Africa has a vital role to play in areas such as conservation, ecology, and of course, economics.

However, recognizing that the value of big game hunting and plainsgame hunting goes some way beyond mere money, Christo Gomes of Mabula Pro Safaris converted his large domestic cattle ranches into game ranches, thereby making a substantial contribution to conserving and utilizing Africa's variety of wild game species. And so, where once there was no game  there is now only game.

this Eland was found abandoned and hand raised by Stella Gomes (definitely not destined to become a trophy)

Red Hartebeest captured, for relocation to introduce new gene pools.

Wildlife and game management makes many demands on the owner of a game ranch. One of the primary objectives of the rancher is to build his stock through judicious breeding, constantly improving genetic selection and bloodlines, buying new stock and therefore new gene pools, building data bases and keeping a close watch on sustainability and other ecological factors.

In this way he is breeding better animals, and improving the quality of the game available to hunters coming from all over the world in search of the ultimate trophy.

At the same time, however, he needs to be aware that the quantity and quality need to be kept in balance; for it is that very scarcity of the finest animals that makes the hunt for the perfect animal so alluring, so tantalizing and so challenging.  The hours and days spent searching for, tracking and hunting the elusive animal, before the final moment of the kill need to be fuelled by the knowledge that such an animal is rare indeed.

Summer time - arrival of the new offspring

Kudu Cow

For the hunter, the kill is simply the logical and fitting end to an adventure in which he pits his skills against that of the animal. The true hunter doesn't simply want to kill beautiful animals.  His is a spiritual quest, as much a search for self-knowledge as it is a search for a trophy.

The trophy animals available at Mabula Pro Safaris, are only old solitary mature males, which means that the harvesting of these trophies does not adversely affect the breeding population. Needless to say, the trophy animals are of excellent quality.

When you kill a beast say to him in your heart:
             "By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I to shall be consumed.
             "For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me in to a mightier hand.
             "Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven."

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran