We believe conservation-led development is the way to optimise world-class natural resources, creating opportunities for the current generation without compromising the needs and rights of future generations. We design land-use plans that allocate rights optimally for the ecosystem and ensure their effective implementation. We secure and hold the land rights, raise public and private sector capital and mobilise specialist technical and institutional resources to unlock the full commercial, ecological and social value of an ecosystem. The philosophy and guiding model for our approach has evolved and been refined over the past 30 years. Through a series of investment and development projects executed across Africa, we have proven our founding thesis that underutilised land and natural resources in Africa, consolidated and packaged with defined use rights, can produce attractive returns while restoring ecological integrity.