PEACE PARKS FOUNDATION / annual review 2017 Reconnecting Africa’s wild spaces to create a future for man in harmony with nature. PEACE PARKS FOUNDING PATRONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CLUB 21 MEMBERS HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands †1 December 2004 Mr JP Rupert (Chairman) Chairman: Mr Johann Rupert Dr Nelson Mandela †5 December 2013 Mr JA Chissano (Vice-Chairman) Absa Bank Dr Anton Rupert †18 January 2006 Mr W Myburgh (Chief Executive Officer) Cartier Ms CC Rupert Chrysler Corporation Fund HONORARY PATRONS Mr TA Boardman COmON Foundation President Hage Geingob (Namibia) Mr NN de Villiers (member only) Daimler His Majesty King Letsie III (Lesotho) Mr A Hoffmann (Switzerland) De Beers His Majesty King Mswati III (The Kingdom of eSwatini) Prof. A Leiman Deutsche Bank President João Lourenço (Angola) Ms LM Lynch Donald Gordon Foundation President Peter Mutharika (Malawi) Mr M Msimang Dr HL Hoffmann †21 July 2016 President Filipe Nyusi (Mozambique) Mr HL Pohamba (Namibia) Dutch Postcode Lottery Dr FE Raimondo Edmond de Rothschild Foundations EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mr DF Strietman (The Netherlands) Esri Mr JP Rupert (Chairman) Drs JHW Loudon (The Netherlands) Exxaro Mr W Myburgh (Chief Executive Officer) Mr P van der Poel Fondation Hoffmann Mr T Boardman Mr H Wessels HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands †1 December 2004 Drs JHW Loudon (The Netherlands) Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta (Zambia) Mrs HCM Coetzee Ms CC Rupert Mr Paul Fentener van Vlissingen †21 August 2006 Mr DF Strietman (The Netherlands) Mr Neville and Mrs Pamela Isdell Mr P van der Poel MAVA Fondation pour la Nature Mr H Wessels Philips Remgro ADVISORY COMMITTEE Richemont Mr Stanley Damane • Director, Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture, Lesotho Rupert Family Foundations Mr Patrick Matanda • Principal Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Malawi Ms Pierrette Schlettwein Mr Brighton Kumchedwa • Director, National Parks and Wildlife, Malawi Swedish Postcode Foundation Ms Skumsa Mancotywa • Chief Director, Biodiversity and Conservation, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa Swedish Postcode Lottery Dr Themba Mhlongo • Deputy Executive Secretary, Regional Integration, SADC Secretariat The Rufford Foundation Mr Fundisile Mketeni • Chief Executive Officer, South African National Parks, South Africa Turner Foundation Mr Colgar Sikopo • Director, Directorate of Regional Services and Parks Management, Namibia Total Mr Emmanuel Dlamini • Principal Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Affairs, The Kingdom of eSwatini Vodafone Group Foundation Dr Cliff Dlamini • Chief Executive Officer, The Kingdom of eSwatini National Trust Commission, The Kingdom of eSwatini WWF Netherlands Club 21 consists of individuals or companies that support peace through conservation in the 21st century and that have contributed $1 million or more to the capital fund and work of Peace Parks Foundation. See p. 55 for details. 4 Contents CHAPTER 1 : MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE CEO 2 CHAPTER 2 : TRANSFRONTIER CONSERVATION AREAS Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area 6 Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area 14 Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area 20 Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area 24 Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park 29 Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area 32 CHAPTER 3 : SUPPORT PROGRAMMES TFCA Veterinary Wildlife Programme 34 Combatting Wildlife Crime 36 CHAPTER 4 : training SA College for Tourism 44 Southern African Wildlife College 48 FUNDING 50 PEACE PARKS FOUNDATION STAFF 60 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT 64 SUMMARY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 66 PEACE PARKS FOUNDATION / annual review 2017 Reconnecting Africa’s wild spaces to create a future for man in harmony with nature. 1 PEACE PARKS FOUNDATION / annual review 2017 Message from the Chairman and the CEO Over the years, Peace Parks Foundation has evolved and grown according to the priorities and needs identified in the relationship between the conservation of large landscapes and the livelihood requirements of people living within these landscapes. 2 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE CEO We understand that parks and protected areas in Africa only To assist the management of these more vulnerable resources, such as forests, can in many areas, even very have a future if people living in these areas not only benefit protected areas, Peace Parks Foundation has developed a marginal areas, generate revenues that enable their self- directly, but also have ownership of these unique and co-management partnership approach with governments or sustainability. Peace Parks Foundation has partnered with precious resources. At the same time, unless every sector – in the case of communal land – with communities. To date, many organisations, such as Conservation International, of society takes responsibility and invests in the future of a over four million hectares of protected areas have received BioCarbon Partners, Panthera, Wilderness Foundation green economy where we put back at least as much as we such support at an operational level, and discussions are Africa and WWF, and clear examples now exist that prove take, the end result for the future of our planet is uncertain. ongoing to expand this type of partnership assistance to that there is an essential place for business in conservation a number of new parks, community conservancies and Peace Parks Foundation has been instrumental in facilitating and in community development. A business approach community-managed forests. Our vision, within the next what is now arguably Africa’s largest terrestrial conservation can have a profound and lasting positive impact on the ten years, is to provide management support through a movement through the formal creation of peace parks in preservation of healthy ecosystems in harmony with people. business approach that will lead to the protection and southern Africa. These span 100 million hectares, equivalent improved management of more than ten million hectares. to the size of Spain and France. All the protected areas currently supported by Peace Parks The next step on our journey is to ensure that all the core Over the next decade, Peace Parks Foundation are essential core areas that already are or can protected areas in this expansive landscape are functional be linked through corridors that sustain movement patterns Foundation will aim to bring business to and successful. This means that biodiversity and unique and migration routes for large mammals, such as elephant wildlife are protected through conservation at scale, that nature, through partnerships, and at scale. and buffalo, as well as carnivores, such as lion and wild dog. community development is supported and seen as integral We invite you to join us in realising our These corridors often reach across international boundaries. to the future of all protected areas and lastly, and of critical In addition, with the impact of climate change now being vision of rewilding ten million hectares importance, that commercial development opportunities clearly understood, ecological connectivity becomes of key conservation areas, forests and are maximised to continue generating resources to protect essential and is no longer a ‘nice to have’. and conserve. Many parks and reserves are well-managed community conservancies, capable of and stable, yet those in the more marginal areas that are The key to achieving this vision is to follow a business sustainably supporting the livelihoods less attractive or inaccessible are at considerable risk. These approach to development and present a case that the of one million people. This may seem are also the parks where the most permanent changes in conservation and protection of natural resources need land use have taken place, and where environmental crimes not be a bottomless pit but an asset to be nurtured. This ambitious, yet we have learned that where such as commercial wildlife poaching and illegal logging must be done in co-existence with the people living there is a will, there is a way; and the will, have escalated. in the landscape. Conservation of wildlife and other eventually, becomes the way. 3 PEACE PARKS FOUNDATION / annual review 2017 2017 at a glance Commitment Growing Great Limpopo Conservation Conservation The Greater Libombos Conservancy became the first Combatting wildlife crime Rewilding privately owned area to be included as part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area and Mozambique As wildlife crime poses a serious threat to natural resources The rewilding of protected areas is one of Peace Parks the first country to add land to this peace park. and the communities they support, anti-poaching efforts Foundation’s most ambitious projects with several successful in various parks continue to strengthen. Practical, on- translocations completed. A total of 3 249 animals were safely Community development the-ground solutions such as improved mobility for moved to Maputo Special Reserve, Simalaha Community Improved livelihoods rangers, training for field security staff, and more effective Conservancy, Ngonye Falls, Sioma Ngwezi, Nyika and Zinave collaboration between teams working across borders in National Parks. A number of community livelihood projects yielded good transfrontier conservation areas have made it much harder results in 2017. These include conservation agriculture for poachers to operate. Technology interventions, such as Commercial development initiatives that focus on promoting improved food security enhanced surveillance in parks, further