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The Green Trust, a partnership with Nedbank

The Green Trust, co-founded by Nedbank and WWF-SA in 1990, is a mutually beneficial partnership between Nedbank and WWF-SA, which supports nature conservation projects through community-based programmes.

Since inception, the Nedbank Green Affinity programme has helped raise nearly R100 million for the funding of more than 150 major conservation projects funded by The Green Trust.

The Green Trust has a strong community-based conservation focus, ensuring that natural resources are sustained for the benefit of people. It is involved in the conservation of species and ecosystem diversity, climate change programmes, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and the promotion of actions aimed at reducing to a minimum pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.

The Trust is constituted with both a Board of Trustees as well as a Management Committee. The Trustees carry the fiduciary responsibility for the Trust but they have delegated most of their other duties to the Management Committee. Management and administration of the Trust is undertaken by WWF South Africa under the supervision of the Management Committee. The Management Committee also acts as a project approval mechanism.

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Latest news

Dr Roelie Kloppers from the Wildlands Conservation Trust reaches an agreement with communities who wanted to invade the Somkhanda Nature Reserve

Support from the Green Trust enables community conservation in KwaZulu-Natal

Ongoing support from The Green Trust has enabled the Wildlands Conservation Trust to secure new areas for Black Rhino and Wild Dog conservation and prevent the loss of a 16,000ha community conservation estate in KwaZulu-Natal.

Posted on 15 June 2010 | Read more

Anne Mearns played a critical role in saving the bullfrog and its habitat

Green Trust Trustee not afraid to get her hands dirty

Saving the bullfrog, greening communities and establishing conservancies might seem like a lot of work to some, but for Green Trust trustee, Ann Mearns, it is all in a days work.

Posted on 15 June 2010 | Read more

The cranes now wear a monitor to determine their whereabouts.

Latest domestic pet: The Blue Crane

Illegal trading of Blue Cranes is on the increase. The Green Trust funded Blue Crane Conservation Project has been working in partnership with land owners to prevent this vulnerable species from being removed from the wild and being held in captivity.

Posted on 15 June 2010 | Read more

Abalimi Bezekhaya has been operating since 1982 and has greened many communities across the Cape Flats

Former Green Trust funded initiative wins gold

In 1992 The Green Trust started funding Abalimi Bezekhaya, an initiative aimed at empowering locals living on the Cape Flats to create and maintain permanent organic food gardens. This small community project has since expanded into a well organised association that not only provides a constant supply of fresh vegetables to communities, but its produce is also sold at select markets.

Posted on 15 June 2010 | Read more

Potato pivots in the Western Cape

Living Farms - moving sustainable farming from theory to practice

South Africans are dependent on its landscapes for food, but with farmers under increasing pressure to provide for a growing population, some have resorted to unsustainable farming practices. The Green Trust funded GreenChoice initiative has developed South Africa’s first sustainable farming reference aimed at assisting farmers to produce good food and maintain our living lands.

Posted on 20 May 2010 | Read more