Landmark Foundation

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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.

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.

CORE ORGANISATIONAL OBJECTIVE

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.

Landmark Foundation is a conservation Non-Governmental Organisation based in South Africa that implements practical, economically sound, and ecologically viable land use management approaches that ensure sustainable conservation goals at a large scale. Our implementation focus is on top trophic species conservation efforts with a special interest in leopard conservation, landscape conservation and rewilding, ecological restoration, ecological governance and human-wildlife coexistence in production landscapes.

Our focus areas include work on top trophic species conservation efforts with a special interest in leopard conservation, landscape conservation and rewilding, ecological restoration, ecological governance and human-wildlife coexistence in production landscapes.

Note: I would like to see a banner running across this page with these seven aspects each having an appropriate image across which the following is listed (see Dropbox doc):

70 leopards rescues from human-wildlife conflict situations
Internationally recognised peer-review science published with ongoing research.
Thousands of children reached through environmental education efforts
Farmer extension services are provided across three provinces – Eastern, Western and Northern Cape Provinces of South Africa. Including human-wildlife conflict mitigation and compensation systems.
More than 200 000ha directly converted to wildlife-friendly practices.
Ground-breaking governance enforcement advocacy work and constitutional litigation to ensure ecological governance is undertaken.
Development of an innovative payment for ecosystem services through an ethical brand, Fair Game Wildlife Friendly Products.

‘A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.’ Aldo Leopold