About
Landmark Foundation
· Mission Statement ·
Founded in 2004, the Landmark Foundation strives to build the conservation economy so that Southern Africa’s rich natural landscapes are conserved.
The Landmark Foundation recognises that the intact natural landscapes of Southern Africa face major threats, mainly from irresponsible human activities.
These landscapes are now amongst our most treasured landmarks.
The threats to these places are the result of land uses that have degraded the aesthetic value of the areas and the biodiversity patterns and processes contained in them, and in most cases for short-term financial gain.
What is required is a landmark change of thinking and behaviour, whereby biodiversity and landscape conservation provide investment returns and benefits to people, which in turn creates incentives for its conservation.
The Landmark Foundation strives to build a conservation economy so that these landscapes can effectively be conserved. As an organisation, we will adhere to the highest ethical standards and will not compromise our integrity to our cause for the sake of allegiances and expediency. We will conduct our affairs without fear or favour.
Current Projects
LEOPARD & BIODIVERSITY
Landmark Foundation promotes the mainstreaming of biodiversity by practical, economical, and ecological viable land use management approaches that ensure sustainable conservation goals at a large scale. We promote evidence-led, ethics-driven tools that create effective conservation custodianship so that Southern African landscapes can effectively be conserved.
BIODIVERSITY GOVERNANCE
The Landmark Foundation is a registered NGO, registered with the Grahamstown (Makhanda) High Court as a Charitable Trust (IT 656/2004), the Department of Social Development as a Not-for-Profit Organisation (039 – 416 – NPO), and as a tax-exempt charitable entity with South African Revenue Services (930023926 – 18A Exemption). The NGO is audited annually and is governed by a Board of Trustees according to the highest corporate governance standards.
REWILDING
Landmark Foundation promotes the mainstreaming of biodiversity by practical, economical, and ecologically viable land use management approaches that ensure sustainable conservation goals at a large scale. We promote evidence-led, ethics-driven tools that create effective conservation custodianship so that Southern African landscapes can effectively be conserved.
HISTORICAL
The Landmark Foundation, established in 2004, is dedicated to the conservation of Southern Africa’s natural landscapes in the face of escalating threats from unsustainable, exploitative human activities.
THE TEAM
Dr Bool Smuts is the Director of the Landmark Foundation.
Dr Jeannine McManus is the Research Director,
Dr. Lauriane Faraut is the Conflict Manager,
Ms Monica Vaccaro is the Education Coordinator.
Mr Johan van Schalkwyk is the Financial Manager.
Several volunteers are involved, and project-based staff are employed when required.
All other services and service providers are appointed on a project-by-project basis.
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The beauty, the dangers and the successes.
CONTACT
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