Situated on a 600 hectare private game reserve, the Kalahari Raptor Centre's function is to care for injured and orphaned birds of prey and small mammals. The centre was established by Beverley Pervan and Chris Mercer, and is now run by Mike and Sue Finlay and their son Jason.

Birds which cannot be released are cared for in spacious aviaries which are built over the canopy of the camelthorn trees so that the resident eagles can sit in the tree-tops and look out to the Kuruman hills across the Kalahari plains. Residents include Martial, Black, Snake and Tawny eagles, Spotted and Giant Eagle Owls, and an ever-growing number of smaller birds of prey, such as falcons, buzzards and goshawks.
    
The vultures have their own open camp which doubles as a restaurant for wild vultures who drop in from the heavens to share carcasses with the disabled residents. Vultures for release are able to leave naturally with the wild visitors.

The Kalahari Raptor Centre runs an out-reach programme for schools and the education centre illustrates the five major threats to the birds of prey and features a model power line built by the electricity utility Eskom to demonstrate how their power lines are made bird-friendly. The Centre is a popular tourist facility, especially for people who are visiting the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and who wish to see the Kalahari's birds of prey and small mammals at close quarters first so that they can identify and understand them better when they see them in the wild.