Inge Kotze joined Singita Lodges as General Manager - Conservation
Singita, a conservation and ecotourism brand with 15 luxury lodges and camps across four countries in Africa, has appointed Inge Kotze as General Manager - Conservation.
Inge replaces Neil Midlane, former GM Conservation Projects and Mark Witney, Singita's former CEO Conservation in the role.
The conservation team is responsible for Singita's biodiversity and sustainability initiatives, as well as its community partnership programmes.
Inge joins Singita from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) where she was Senior Manager of Conservation Integration for South Africa's Environmental Programmes. In her 10 years with WWF, Inge held various positions, including developing and leading the WWF Sustainable Agriculture Programme, as well as coordinating an innovative land stewardship partnership between the wine industry and the conservation sector known as the Biodiversity & Wine Initiative.
Trained as a Geographer, Inge spent her the first ten years of her career working as a researcher for the CSIR's Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services group, focusing on sound land use, natural resource management - including invasive alien plant management, freshwater conservation planning and cumulative effects assessments.
Inge is based at Singita offices in Cape Town.
