HilLand Associates soon thereafter became a well established consultancy in the Garden Route of South Africa, and the leaders in environmental impact assessments HilLand Associates began in the beginning of 1992, with humble beginnings, assisting privatge landowners with environmental amelioration and rehabilitation We have also expanded our computer aided mapping capabilities, GIS, 3D modelling and visual assessment abilities As pragmatists we understand, and are critically aware of, the economies associated with land ownership, and our experience makes us aware of the relationship between land ownership, additional land rights and successful environmental development
Through reaching an integral balance between a pragmatic approach to conservation / environmentalism and an attempt at achieving sustained development, coupled with the preservation, perpetuation and restoration of biological diversity, environmental integrity can be achieved.