Faanya Lydia (Arch) Rose (born July 9, 1938) is a British-American businesswoman, conservationist, philanthropist, and explorer.

[2][3] At founding in 1904, the membership of the Explorer Club was "limited absolutely to men who [had] been in the open and the wild places of the earth.

[6] She is Jewish, of Eastern European descent, her family emigrating from the Pale of Settlement in the first half of the twentieth century for South Africa.

Her father left Berdychiv, Ukraine, with his family as a boy for Berlin, and when Nazism became ascendant in Germany, immigrated to Johannesburg.

He served less than his full term before dying at age 46 on Air Rhodesia Flight 827, a casualty of the Rhodesian Bush War.

He named Donald Goldin to oversee construction and manage day-to-day operations; Faanya was a contributing partner.

Long aware of the challenges to African wildlife and the wild spaces of the continent, the Goldins adopted aggressive conservation practices to quell rampant poaching and the over-hunting of game which was decimating the big herds.

In their care the farm matured to help boost the leopard population in the country and of Faanya personally planting acres of bougainvillea to retain the topsoil.

[15][8] In 1994, she joined British expedition leader Colonel John Blashford-Snell of the Scientific Exploration Society (SES) on the "Great Elephant Quest" to investigate rumors that giant mammoths thought to be extinct were raiding Nepalese hunting grounds.