Kavango is a beautiful, strategic and fast-paced board game that has captured the hearts of over 3,000 kickstarter backers. With simultaneous turns, satisfying tableau-building and tough decisions, Kavango's gameplay has been praised by board game reviewers.
Created by Matt and Zara, while working on conservation in Botswana, Kavango is deeply thematic and is thoughtfully designed to be a modern and realistic view of conservation in southern Africa. With 160 beautifully unique species cards, 45 research cards, 10 conservation experts and 5 landscape boards, there is huge variability to reflect the incredible biodiversity of Kavango.
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Travel to the vast wildernesses of Southern Africa and step into the role of a Conservation Expert. Embark on a re-wilding journey as you transform your own unique landscape into a thriving nature reserve. Over three fast-paced rounds of card drafting, you will build a flourishing ecosystem. As you grow your nature reserve, you must complete research tasks to earn money to invest in protection and provide a haven for vulnerable and endangered animals. As the game progresses, your choices become harder and your strategy more complex as you aim to build the highest scoring nature reserve.
1-5 Players | 40-60 mins | 10yrs+
The Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area is the world’s largest cross-border conservation area. It connects five countries and supports a range of ecosystems, which are represented in our landscape player boards.
There is huge biodiversity in Kavango and the
region is home to crucial populations of iconic animals, including the largest number of elephants in Africa. Across the landscape, you can witness a range of natural wonders from the largest terrestrial migration of zebra to the thundering Victoria Falls waterfall and national park.
We're Matt and Zara, co-creators of Kavango. Matt is the designer and illustrator and Zara is our very own Conservation Expert. After we got married in Scotland in 2019 we moved to Botswana when Zara secured a job working on combatting the illegal wildlife trade.
For us, Kavango is so much more than a board game. It's a modern and realistic view of conservation in southern Africa, based on our lived experience, and love for the region and everyone we've met along the way.
Our time in Botswana has shown us first hand the commitment and innovation to conservation across southern Africa. Kavango is based on the incredible real life success stories we've been so fortunate to see and engage with. Through Kavango we wanted to channel that success and ignite the conservationist in you all.
We believe that an optimistic narrative can inspire and motivate people into creating a better world. We hope playing the game will inspire you to protect wildlife and biodiversity wherever you are.
To find out more about our story, listen to us featuring exclusively on the fantastic Meeple2Meeple Podcast with the wonderful Gareth and PJ!
Become a Conservation Expert and build a thriving Nature Reserve
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