through your lens
For most of the last century, black leopards in Africa were treated as rumour, with the first clear scientific camera-trap confirmation in more than 100 years coming from Laikipia in 2019. Laikipia – Giza’s home range around Ol Gaboli – is now recognised as holding the largest known population of black leopards anywhere in Africa, with a small number of individuals identified. Of these, Giza is the most regularly sighted.
Her name means “darkness” in Swahili, and she has become an icon for this landscape: living proof that Laikipia is one of the only places left where a creature once thought almost mythical still moves freely through the night.






