Landmark Foundation

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Landmark Foundation has not yet seen this page. It describes the organisation only through what it has said or done, and through what others named here have said about it. The Forum has not approached Landmark Foundation about anything. Until Landmark Foundation has approved the text, it may change. Questions for Landmark Foundation:

1. Is this description of the Landmark Foundation and its work near the valley correct? What would you like to change?
2. Does the Foundation run leopard cameras in the Greyton Nature Reserve and the Genadendal mountains? What have they recorded?
3. Is the account of a leopard collared in 2014 and later shot near the Rooihoogte pass correct?
4. Should readers reach you through the moderators, or through a public contact?

The Landmark Foundation is a conservation organisation that works with stock farmers on wildlife-friendly land management [MS]. It says it catches and collars leopards blamed for livestock losses before releasing them, and pays farmers compensation linked to collared leopards [MS]. The people putting forward The Overberg Leopard Corridor say it runs leopard cameras in the Greyton Nature Reserve and the Genadendal mountains [MS].

What the letters in square brackets mean

Facts on this page are followed by a tag that shows where they come from.

• [IC] Independently Corroborated. Confirmed by an official record, such as a government notice or a court or council record, or by at least two sources that do not depend on each other.
• [MS] Mission-Sourced. Comes from the organisation’s own website or statements, from the statements of a group it works with, or from the Forum’s own records. It has not been checked against sources that do not depend on them.
• [TBV] To Be Verified. Seems likely, but nobody has confirmed it from a reliable source yet.

At a glance

Kind	Non-profit
Based in	Not yet known
Website	landmark.foundation
Role	Leopard conservation with stock farmers [MS]
Link to the valley	Reported. Cameras in the valley’s mountains, not yet confirmed by the Foundation
Contact with the Forum	Not approached

What it does

The Foundation’s work focuses on reducing conflict between leopards and livestock farming, so that farmers do not kill leopards [MS].

How its work reaches the valley

• Cameras. The leopard corridor idea reports the Foundation’s cameras in the Greyton Nature Reserve and the Genadendal mountains [MS].
• A collared leopard. A landowner has written that a male leopard collared by the Foundation in 2014 was later caught in a trap and shot by a farmer near the Rooihoogte pass [TBV].

Where it touches this site

• The Overberg Leopard Corridor and Ridge to River to Table, ideas not yet agreed, which name the Foundation among organisations whose views are needed. It has not been asked.

What is still open

• Whether the Foundation’s cameras in the valley’s mountains are still running, and what they have recorded.
• Whether the account of the 2014 leopard is correct.

Have your say

If you know more about Landmark Foundation’s work in the valley, contact the moderators via How to Submit.

Related

• Organisations Outside the Valley
• Cape Leopard Trust

References

• Landmark Foundation. Leopards. Its work with farmers and its compensation scheme.
• Simonskloof Retreat. Posts on the Landmark Foundation. A landowner’s account (November 2014) of a collared leopard later trapped and shot near the Rooihoogte pass.