Ithala Game Reserve is situated in 290 km2 of rugged, mountainous thornveld, about 400 km north of Durban, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

The reserve consequently encompasses a great variation of terrain, from densely vegetated river valleys and lowveld to sourveld, high-lying grassland plateaus, mountain ridges and cliff faces.

Grazers include impala, red hartebeest, tsessebe, blue wildebeest, eland and reedbuck.

With the exception of reedbuck, these species have been observed to produce young seasonally around November to December in Ithala, when ample green forage is available.

[1] The browsers include duiker, bushbuck, nyala, kudu, giraffe and zebra, which deliver their young at any time of the year.