The Landmark Foundation has been integrally involved in the development of the Institute and the re-aforestation efforts linked with this important project. The project seeks to plant back large tracks of indigenous forests, starting in the Garden Route, and through the emerging carbon trade to facilitate mitigation to climate change. Climate change is the greatest threat our generation will deal with.
The Landmark Foundation believes the best and most sustainable way we can deal with this threat is through the restoration of Africa’s Carbon lung – its forests -, which has been decimated by colonial activity in Africa for the last 500 years. In addition the project present the most sustainable and equitable manner to provide opportunities for local economic development. In a way that colonialism created a carbon export economy by destroying our forests, this project seeks to create a carbon import economy, through carbon trading, that will bring resources and enterprise to communities previously excluded from natural resources, and in so doing, restoring our magnificent indigenous forests.
The Landmark Foundation is a strategic partner of the Baartman-Biko Institute. |
