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TED Talks: John Kasaona

John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers

Watch John Kasaona on the main stage at TED 2010 in Long Beach, CA. John is from WWF's key partner in Namibia, the IRDNC, and beautifully paints a picture of how Namibia evolved into one of the world's shining examples of community-based natural resource management.

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Hello TEDsters. Welcome to WWF's TED-NAMIBIA web portal. I hope you had a chance to speak with John Kasaona at TED. We've created this site specifically for the TED community as a way to link you to our work in Namibia. We need your interest, your ideas, your resources. Please sign up so we can stay in touch.

If you have specific inquiries or ideas you would like to act on, please be in touch with Darron Collins at darron.collins@wwfus.org.

 

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John Kasaona

John Kasaona is the deputy director for Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) and the chairperson of NACSO, the umbrella CBNRM organization for all NGOs in Namibia. He was born and raised on one of Namibia’s conservancies, Sesfontein, and that experience influenced his choice of conservation as his life's work.

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WWF’s Namibia program

Learn more about what  WWF is doing in Namibia

Videos

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  • Interview with Chris Weaver, Director, WWF Namibia

  • People, Plants, and Perfume

  • Interview with Garth Owen-Smith, Co-Director, IRDNC

  • Desert Elephants in Damaraland

 

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