AFRICA ANNUAL REVIEW INTRODUCTION

Wilderness Foundation Africa is a project based conservation organisation working to protect and sustain all life on earth for the benefit of current and future generations. Wilderness Foundation Africa (WFA) works to protect and sustain wildlife and wilderness through “We envisage a integrated conservation and education programmes. Whether it is direct action anti-poaching in the field, large landscape wilderness management, or developing rising young leaders from disadvantaged world that has sufficient communities for a career in conservation, Wilderness Foundation Africa has over 45 years of results. intact natural ecosystems OUR AREAS OF FOCUS: and wilderness areas that SPECIES SPACES PEOPLE are valued and effectively Our work is based on the values of: a passion for direct conservation action; respect for all living protected for the benefit things; a deep commitment to conservation education; and with operations that demonstrate integrity, transparency, sustainability, and innovation. of all species.”

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 CHAIRMANS REPORT

I am pleased to report that despite the ongoing and challenging equip vulnerable youth to be economically active and environmentally funding environment we find ourselves in, that we as Wilderness responsible citizens. Foundation Africa met our revenue target for the past financial year, Two years ago we as Wilderness Foundation Africa, along with our and were able to fully implement all the main components of our sister foundations the WILD Foundation USA; Wilderness Foundation operational plan. The CEO and his team continue to put efforts into United Kingdom and the Durban based Wilderness Leadership growing and diversifying our donor base and partnerships. School created Wilderness Foundation Global. This is a global A few program highlights over the past year are as follows: alliance of independent wilderness-focused organizations registered and based out of Cape Town, sharing, leveraging and implementing Together with our partner the University of Stellenbosch Business their capacities and expertise, yielding better, more strategic and School Executive Education (USB-ED), we now offer a specialized TODANI MOYO productive results for wilderness worldwide. Management Development programme with skills required in Chairperson contemporary protected area management not covered in formal I am pleased to announce that under the banner of Wilderness September 2018 qualifications. The programme is aimed at building capacity to Foundation Global and through WILD Foundation as the meet the future challenges of Protected Area and Conservation implementation partner, we received our political approval to host the Management in Africa. World Wilderness Congress (WILD 11) in China in October 2019, a few months ago. We are now gearing up to organize the metrics Rhino remains at the forefront of the Forever Wild Conservation and logistics of events leading up to the congress and then the grand Programme , with various on-the-ground activities to protect this iconic finale of WILD11 that will accelerate the process of taking to scale the species, and the further development and implementation of our essential role of wilderness in human health and well-being. highly successful rhino horn demand reduction campaign in Vietnam. In addition, it is worth noting that we continue to receive six Amarok As always, we are appreciative to our partners and long standing vehicles per annum from Volkswagen for rhino protection funders, all of whom enable us to do the work that we do for the future and anti-poaching initiatives which are deployed to rhino hotspot of all species on this planet. In closing, I would like to thank all my areas and state protected areas. fellow Trustees of the Board for their support over the past year as well as the CEO and the full staff compliment at WFA for the uplifting work Our Youth Development Programme has reached over 300 youth they do every day in making this world a better place. through our Siyazenzela and Umzi Wethu skills training and job readiness projects over this past year, as well as an additional one thousand youth having participated in our Pride and Imbewu experiential education projects. These holistic skills development and education interventions utilizes wilderness experiences in order to

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

The first part of the mission of Wilderness Foundation Africa reads that “we look at conserving wild lands and wilderness that uplifts the knowledge and lives of citizens and stimulates an environmental ethos among current and future leaders”.

This goal has become that much more urgent as it has now become accepted by the conservation community at large that we are in the midsts of a sixth mass extinction event, particularly when it comes to wildlife and invertebrates. Mass extinctions by definition involve a dramatic loss of biodiversity. We are one of more than thirteen million species that make up our planet. It is commonly accepted that by the year 2050 (32 years’ time), over 20% of the species that currently inhabit the earth could either be extinct or on the brink of DR ANDREW MUIR extinction. This is due in part to the perfect storm of population growth, CEO unsustainable resource utilisation and the human impact on climate Wilderness change. Regionally in Southern Africa we can see this first hand Foundation Africa through the numbers of wild lion; giraffe and rhino, a few in a long list of species that are in a decline.

Through our three key focus areas of Species, Spaces and People and in implementing our projects, we continue to play a small part that offers a glimmer of hope, that through collaboration and striving for that higher ideal of conservation, we can rise above these challenges and mitigate against these threats. As the second part of our mission statement states, we “envisage a world that has sufficient intact natural ecosystems and wilderness areas that are valued and effectively protected for the benefit of all”.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 Projects managed under the Species focus area of WFA are aimed SPECIES at the protection of iconic endangered species and fall under the Forever Wild Conservation Programme banner. All species projects in the 2017 / 2018 financial year were managed under the following initiatives:

FOREVER WILD RHINO PROTECTION INITIATIVE:

The Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative focuses on both Wilderness Foundation Africa’s Bat Hawk and BushCat on-the-ground support in South Africa and demand reduction aircraft operate as part of the Wildlife Operations Group’s Air activities in Vietnam in order to address the on-going rhino Support project. Flights are conducted over national parks and poaching crisis. provincial and organised private reserves who manage and protect rhino. Combined security and monitoring exercises In the 2017 / 2018 financial year WFA successfully deployed are flown with either a member of the anti-poaching unit or and managed a fleet of ten vehicles to support reserves rhino monitor in the plane or with the pilot in contact with the managing and protecting important rhino populations. ground teams. Flights in the last year were all mainly security The vehicles were also used for security and intelligence based, focussing on patrolling external roads, boundary personnel responsible for the protection of rhino and the fences and the monitoring of rhino and other species. prevention of wildlife crime across the country. The aircraft also assists with locating rhino to be darted from a helicopter as part of DNA collection procedures. Through Rhino Rescue Support, wildlife veterinarians were able to respond and treat injured rhino who survived poaching Through the Wildlife Operations Group, Wilderness incidents, including the removal of a bullet from one of the Foundation Africa was able to deploy a rhino security rhino which was submitted as part of the evidence chain. patrol vehicle whose function is to patrol the public roads around reserves managing rhino in the . June 2017 saw the full deployment of the cold scent K9 A total of 35 suspicious vehicles and activities was detected unit, consisting of a Bloodhound / Doberman cross dog and this information was acted upon to prevent possible and handler, who deploys in an appropriately fitted vehicle. poaching incidents. The aim of this unit is to assist all reserves in the Eastern Cape following a poaching incident. Since deployment, this Wilderness Foundation Africa continued to support the unit has responded to two rhino poaching crime scenes in collection of DNA samples from rhino in the Eastern Cape the Eastern Cape and was able to assist with detecting the to be included in the RhODIS national data system. A total poachers’ points of entry and exit from the reserves, as well of 32 DNA samples were collected in this financial year, as detecting evidence in the vicinity of the crime scenes. bringing the total collected to date to 182. The unit has also assisted with combined training with a national protected area’s K9 unit, sharing knowledge and Reducing the demand for rhino horn in user countries remains assisting with improving their capacity. a major focus for Wilderness Foundation Africa and during

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 this period the Wild Rhino Demand Reduction Campaign brought 11 Vietnamese youth to South Africa to take part in Over 300 hours a wilderness trail and wildlife crime information workshop. anti-poaching and These enthusiastic Wild Rhino Youth Ambassadors returned to monitoring hours flown Vietnam and collaborated with WFA to continue spreading the by WFA aircraft message to their peers and family to stop using rhino horn.

Deployed 10 vehicles for anti-poaching FOREVER WILD LEOPARD and monitoring CONSERVATION INITIATIVE:

Although leopards are not considered endangered in a global context, nationally they are considered to be threatened with extinction in the medium term. Habitat loss is the main factor 182 DNA sample procedures completed threatening the future survival of healthy leopard populations in to date South Africa. The Forever Wild Leopard Conservation Initiative therefore aims to work in partnership with organisations already involved in leopard conservation in South Africa.

In 2016 a three year Memorandum of Agreement was finalized and signed between Wilderness Foundation Africa and the Cape Leopard Trust in order to support their leopard 500 000 Vietnamese reached anti-snaring project in the Boland study area of the Western through Vietnam Demand Cape. The objectives of this project are: investigation into Reduction campaign illegal hunting with snares; production of material for directed awareness and education programmes; and the design and monitoring of appropriate interventions and advocate for their implementation. In the last 12 months WFA continued to support this project, which successfully completed two leopard conservation and anti-snare awareness days and conducted 347 rural residents surveyed surveys with 87 farmers and 260 farm workers to collect data by Forever Wild Leopard in order to determine the extent that illegal bush meat snaring Conservation Initiative project has on leopard conservation in the Boland study area.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 The Spaces focus areas is represented by the Protected Area Programme SPACES which conceptualizes, develops and raises funds for the implementation of projects that include those related to the following: • Establishment, development and management of new reserves • Corridor concept development and implementation • Management support for protected areas • Ecosystem Restoration

In the 2017 / 2018 financial year WFA maintained In the Northern Cape of South Africa, WFA is assisting management oversight of the 8 827 hectare Plains of the Northern Cape Province in implementing its Protected Camdeboo Private Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape of Area Expansion Strategy and securing land through the South Africa. The primary aim of the reserve is to conserve implementation of biodiversity stewardship and land 5 736 hectares conserved through and where necessary restore the natural landscape and purchase. The project is focussed on conserving the unique Stewardship agreements and 7 168 hectares purchased for its constituent habitats, species, ecological patterns and vegetation of the , a globally conservation in Namaqualand processes as well as recognising and protecting cultural recognised biodiversity hot spot. The past year has seen the heritage features. Ongoing general reserve management Stewardship component of the project advance the process activities include wildlife, ecosystem restoration as well of expansion from assessment to negotiation phase, with as fence, road and water point management. A focus this 2 properties (3 982ha) bordering year on the reserve has been soil erosion restoration sites (NNP) currently in negotiation to be declared as Protected specifically and game management by means of aerial Areas. An additional 4 properties (5 734ha) have agreed census and through wildlife observations from vehicles to create a new (and to be) declared joint Nature Reserve. 15 properties engaged for and game cameras. purchase or stewardship in Namaqualand in Phase 1 (signed up and purchased)

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 To date WFA have presented seven “Land Purchase interventions that took place. In the in this Applications” to project funder WWF for consideration, with financial year the was assisted with two properties (3 403ha) purchased and added to Namaqua the facilitation of their protected area expansion strategy National Park and Goegap Nature Reserve respectively. to enable conservation of Critically Endangered . The remaining 6 properties (18 576ha) are currently under This was achieved with the appointment of a surveyor to negotiation by the WWF Land Programme. WFA also assisted survey and draw Surveyor-General Diagrams for two SANParks with the legal background checks and biodiversity properties, which was required for the proclamation process, site assessment for a 930ha property which was successfully as well as appointing a valuator to value properties with submitted for purchase, and a biodiversity site assessment of high quality endangered vegetation. The valuation of these a 4 945ha property purchased for conservation protection properties were required for purchase negotiations. by Mainstream Renewable Power. Assistance was also provided to South African National Parks The project also provided technical assistance aimed through the appointment of an engineer in order to complete at landowners participating in the project’s Biodiversity an engineering research report to remove dam walls on the Stewardship Program. Technical Assistance activities newly acquired Roodeberg properties incorporated into pursued thus far include new fencing constructed around the Table Mountain National Park, which will allow for the the Karrasberge Nature Reserve properties, removal of 8km rehabilitation and return to the natural water course function internal fencing, perimeter fence serviced, gabion structures on the property. built, various ‘gully plugs’ constructed in preventing topsoil loss, gully sloping and ‘bio-jute’ installation, and also WFA also facilitated clearing of alien invasive vegetation purchased and issued Cuddeback Digital camera traps through the Klein Dassenberg Alien clearing project on / trail cameras to land owners to monitor and conserve the Groenfontyn Conservancy. This Conservancy houses indigenous game on their property. The rehabilitation and Critically Endangered Swartland Shale and fencing maintenance activities employed a team of 8 to 10 Atlantis Sand Fynbos remnants. In this financial year a total local unemployed workers for approximately one year. of 101ha was cleared, which included 69 ha of follow- up work and 32 ha of initial work. During the course of As part of the protected area management support service the project 23 local people were employed generating Wilderness Foundation Africa provided a number of 2 142 person days.

13 individual landowners 2 500m2 of gully erosion 33 local people employed in and 8 organisations control in the Namaqualand semi-skilled jobs associated developed grazing guidelines with land conservation for protected environments in Namaqualand

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 Wilderness Foundation Africa continues to offer a number of holistic PEOPLE skills development and education interventions that harness the healing power of nature, to equip vulnerable youth to be economically active and environmentally responsible citizens. General activities carried out by the Youth Development Programme are set against the four primary objectives:

WELLNESS disadvantaged primary and senior learners to a one-day, At the core of the Youth Development interventions are entry-level outdoor experience in the past year. carefully developed psychological wellness programmes which aim to provide specific support to the participants The Imbewu trails aim to provide previously disadvantaged as they complete the employability skills development or youth a quality experience of their natural and cultural vocational training aspects, depending on which project they heritage and activates black conservation mentors who are enrolled in. offer an educative mix of afro-centric and western concepts of conservation. It recognizes that by nurturing a sense During the period April 2017 to March 2018, the Siyazenzela of environmental awareness and conservation ethics, a courses saw 172 youth benefiting from the livelihoods proactive role in environmental initiatives can be encouraged. initiative. Most of the graduates found new vocational pathways and others had opportunities to study further. The Imbewu trails are run in partnership with South African National Parks, and continue to take place in two separate CONSERVATION sections of the Addo Elephant National Park. 29 Imbewu The positive impact on young people spending time in trails were conducted with a total number of 232 youth wilderness areas and a firm belief in the healing power experiencing the wilderness during 2017 / 2018. of nature for personal and social transformation motivates WFA to continue to integrate various levels of wilderness trail SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY activities into all the Youth Development projects. During the Umzi Wethu courses, all students are given the opportunity to become socially responsible and contribute The Pride and Imbewu trails play an important role in meaningfully to improve the communities they live in. For the introducing youth from disadvantaged communities period April 2017 to March 2018, social outreach included to wilderness trails and their natural environment. assisting with maintenance, storytelling, gardening at These trails provide opportunities for youth who have limited Isithembiso Babies Home and the Walmer Angels Project; a opportunities, to access relatively wild and untrammelled beach clean-up at SANCCOB and a day of peer mentoring natural spaces. with Grade 7 pupils at the Pendla Primary School in the New Brighton community of Port Elizabeth. The various Pride trails which have taken place in natural areas across South Africa have introduced 1 594 previously

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 A total number of 2 072 students were reached through YDP in 2017 / 2018

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS Through our Development Programme, youth are empowered to become financially independent and breadwinners for A total number of 64 117 their families with the Foundation offering skills training and youth were reached through trails (up to March 2018) opportunities to improve employability skills through the Umzi Wethu project.

In the last year, 20 students were awarded Basic Field Ranger Unarmed and Conservation General Assistant certificates as well as a First Aid level 1 certificate. 15 youth successfully completed an Assistant Housekeeping course and A total number of 1 192 19 youth successfully completed the Assistant Chef course. youth were reached through All these graduates were then linked to internships in their Siyazenzela and Siyazenzela Plus respective industries.

There were a total of 329 of Umzi Wethu graduates

There were a total of 368 of Umzi Wethu youth beneficiaries (graduated and in class/interns)

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 CASE STUDYCASE 1

IMBEWU WILDLIFE CRIME AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

The aim of the Wildlife Crime Awareness Campaign is to reach youth in and around the Addo Elephant National Park, educating them on wildlife crime, what the effects are on them as a community and what they can do to help reduce wildlife crime. A pilot campaign was run in early 2018 with Peer Educators who had been identified through the Imbewu trails conducted by WFA the previous year.

SELECTION OF WILDLIFE CRIME AWARENESS EDUCATORS After returning from the Imbewu trail, learners worked with their teachers and Wilderness Foundation Africa’s senior trail guide in order to reinforce the need for the upholding of conservation values within the school environment. This was done through presentations at the schools, allowing learners to share the knowledge of their experience on trail and through this inspire other learners to also take part.

The purpose of the activity is to allow learners to gain confidence and experience in public speaking by speaking in front of their peers, and to educate their peers on the importance of wildlife and wilderness awareness.

From the presentations conducted by the students at the different schools, eight youth who showed leadership skills and were able to relate the feedback confidently and clearly were selected as Wildlife Crime Awareness Peer Educators.

TRAINING OF THE EDUCATORS A training workshop was conducted over a two day period with the purpose of educating the Peer Educators on wildlife crime, particularly rhino poaching in South Africa, anti-poaching, team work ethics, presentation skills and public speaking.

The first day comprised of activities hosted at a private game reserve, where the Peer Educators were able to see rhinos and other wildlife in their natural habitat, as well as learning about rescued animals at the Born Free Foundation Education Centre, giving them a better understanding of the need for conservation in South Africa. Through an interactive presentation by the Shamwari Group Security Manager, the Peer

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 Educators learnt about the daily operations of anti-poaching units and what it takes to protect rhinos and other wildlife against poaching.

The second day of the workshop was concluded at the WFA’s Youth Development training centre, where peer educators developed an implementation plan and a presentation to be given to their peers at the identified schools.

SCHOOL VISITS The peer educators conducted the Wildlife Crime Awareness Campaign at the Samkelwe Senior Secondary School and Sandisulwazi Senior Secondary School in March 2018.

Samkelwe Senior Secondary School is the only high school in Kwa-Nomathamsanqa Township in Addo. The school is situated just outside the borders of Addo Elephant National Park, approximately 13km away from the main camp. Addo Elephant National Park is one of the main organisations that employs a large number of people from the Kwa-Nomathamsanqa Township.

Sandisulwazi Senior Secondary School in Kwa-Zenzele Township in the remote town of Paterson. Sandisulwazi Senior Secondary School is 9km away from Shamwari Game Reserve, 12km away from Amakhala Game Reserve and 14km away from Addo Elephant National Park. The school has 337 registered learners, most of whom come from farms around Paterson and Kwa-Zenzele Township. Many families in this area are dependent on the agriculture and hospitality industry.

The peer educators did a presentation based on everything they had learned, teaching the learners about rhinos, the different species of rhinos, their diet and natural habitats, rhino poaching in South Africa, rhino conservation as well as future solutions and innovations.

At the end of the presentation each learner was asked to leave a signature on a pledge poster as a promise to educate their family and friends about the rhino crisis in South Africa.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 CASE STUDYCASE 2

BIODIVERSITY STEWARDSHIP AND CORRIDORS

Biodiversity stewardship is an approach to securing land in biodiversity priority areas through entering into agreements with private and communal landowners. The objective of biodiversity stewardship is to conserve and manage biodiversity priority areas through voluntary agreements with landowners. These agreements can include formal protection, management and restoration of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The approach was initiated in 2003 with all nine provinces in South Africa at that stage having some form of biodiversity stewardship programme in development or operation. This relatively new protected area expansion tool has made significant progress to date, including influencing protected area legislation and tax legislation. But more significantly over 400 000ha of land important for biodiversity conservation has been declared as contract protected areas in almost all of the country’s provinces. Furthermore, over 500 000ha of additional contract protected areas are in the process of declaration.

A suite of different types of biodiversity stewardship agreements exist, ranging from non-binding agreements to long-term formally declared protected areas. Protected Environments are one form of formal Biodiversity Stewardship. They contribute towards meeting national protected area targets established in the National Protected Area Expansion Strategy (NPAES) and are one of four main categories of protected area defined in the Protected Areas Act. Protected Environments are suitable for declaration over multiple properties and are less restrictive in terms of land use than Nature Reserves. For example they can allow for livestock grazing to continue in line with a management plan developed for the specific Protected Environment. This allows for the achievement of conservation objectives while still enabling landowners and communities to maintain their livelihoods. Protected Environments can be managed by a conservation authority or by private or communal landowners or a combination of both. Protected Environments are the perfect tool to use when building Conservation Corridors in extensive landscapes.

A Conservation Corridor is an effective pattern of habitats linking existing protected areas to ensure ecological connectivity for species, communities and ecological processes. The increased connectivity and improved ecological functioning are seen as one of the means to mitigate for Climate Change.

Wilderness Foundation Africa through the Protected Area Programme is actively working to use the options provided by biodiversity stewardship including Protected Environments to increase the countries protected area estate. Examples include the Mountain Zebra/Camdeboo Protected Environment which forms part of a broader corridor initiative, the Indalo Protected Environment and a number of agreements being concluded in the Succulent Karoo / Namaqualand region of the Northern Cape.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 DONORS AND SPONSORS Anglo American Chairman's Fund MiX Telematics Avis Car Rental Mrs Minnaar ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Beare Foundation Olsen Animal Trust Caleo Foundation Peace Parks Foundation OF SUPPORT EMpower (Emerging Markets Foundation) Rooiberg Winery E’Zethu Development Trust SA Home Loans Goodyear South Africa SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund Graham and Rhona Beck Development Trust SpecSavers Grassridge Wind Farm Table Mountain Fund Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust (HHCT) Taiwan Forestry Bureau Happy Snappy The Haberdashers Company Joron Charitable Trust Tread Right Foundation Kouga Wind Farm Tusk Trust Mai Family Foundation Twinkletots Trading Manicomio Volkswagen Group South Africa Mantis/Accor Wiesenhof Coffees MediVet World Wildlife Fund -South Africa (WWF-SA) MTO Forestry

CONSERVATION PARTNERS Cape Leopard Trust Cape Nature Chipembere Rhino Foundation City of Cape Town Eastern Cape Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs, Eastern Cape Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency Indalo Private Game Reserve Association Northern Cape Department of Environment & Nature Conservation South African National Parks

UMZI WETHU PRACTICAL PLACEMENT PARTNERS Brioche Coffee Shop Mantis Collection Boost Juice Marine Hotel Bukela Game Reserve Micoffee Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality Four Cousins Restaurant PE Hotel Group Graham Hotel Protea Marine Hotel Ginger Restaurant Radisson Blu Hopewell Conservation Rhubarb and Lime Kariega Game Reserve South African National Parks Kouzouka Lodge / Legacy Hotel Group Shamwari Group / Dubai World Kuzuko Private Game Reserve

ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 FINANCIALS

Wilderness Foundation Africa (WFA) is a registered Public Benefit Organisation, a Non-Profit Organisation and a BBBEE Status level 4 contributor. The socio-economic development beneficiaries of WFA are all 100% black as defined by the BBBEE Act of 2003.

Below is a summary of the April 2016 to March 2017 financials, of which a full copy is available on request:

FINANCIAL ASSETS EQUITY AND LIABILITY

Income R 25 250 211 Cash and Cash equivalents R 13 340 692 Retained income R 19 125 168

Expenses R 24 726 751 Property, Plant equipment R 6 706 893 Pension Liability R 1 055 093

TOTAL R 523 460 Investments R 2 692 679 Non-Distributable Reserve R 1 913 659 TOTAL R 22 740 264 Sundry Creditors R 646 344

TOTAL R 22 740 264

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