Allan Savory | I Ordered 40,000 Elephants Killed. I Was Wrong. Here's What I Learned.

Allan Savory made one of the biggest mistakes in the history of conservation — he recommended killing 40,000 elephants to stop land degradation. The land got worse. This talk is about what he learned from that error, and how it led to a discovery that could reverse desertification on a global scale. Allan Savory is a Zimbabwean wildlife biologist, farmer, and game ranger who developed Holistic Planned Grazing — a farming practice that uses livestock to regenerate degraded land and reverse desertification. His 2013 TED Talk has been viewed over 9 million times. He is the co-founder of the Savory Institute. He has spent 70 years working on one problem: why do humans keep destroying the land that sustains them? The answer he found is both simple and uncomfortable. It isn't livestock. It isn't fossil fuels. It's the way every human institution — from families to governments — develops policy. And the solution involves putting the animals back. ———————————— CHAPTERS ———————————— 0:00 "More dangerous than all the wars ever fought" — the scale of the crisis 3:00 A stranger in an airport and the insight that unlocked everything 7:00 National parks, biodiversity loss, and a problem nobody could solve 12:00 The blunder: 40,000 elephants and the lesson it forced 17:00 The revelation: it's not the number of animals — it's their behaviour 20:00 Holistic Planned Grazing: how the solution was built 23:00 Two years, 2,000 scientists, and one hour of criticism every day 26:00 "We're heading for the iceberg. What are you going to do?" ———————————— MORE DO LECTURES TALKS ———————————— Chief Arvol Looking Horse | Why Our Relationship With the Earth Must Change →    • Видео   Guy Watson | What Growing Food Teaches You About Living →    • Видео   Maggie Doyne | How a 19-Year-Old Built a School in Nepal →    • Maggie Doyne | How a 19-Year-Old Built a S...   ———————————— Sign up to the Do Lectures newsletter — a weekly curation of wonder and optimism: https://www.thedolectures.com/newsletter All talks: https://thedolectures.com Do Radio: https://thedolectures.com/do-radio