Bozeman Magazine

Margaret Jacobsohn and Garth Owen-Smith, internationally recognized conservationists, share their insights on ways to protect the world's last wild places - and how devolving rights to communities more than doubled land for wildlife in Namibia. Namibian conservationist Garth Owen-Smith pioneered community-based conservation in the early 1980s in response to massive commercial poaching, including rhino and elephant, in southern Africa. Dr. Margaret Jacobsohn is a Namibian writer, anthropologist and community-based conservation specialist. Jacobsohn and Owen-Smith will discuss what Namibia’s community-based initiatives have achieved and key principals that underlie these successes— including forging relationships, understanding the social geography, and direct involvement of the public, rights linked to responsibilities, benefiting from the practical application of indigenous wisdom. They believe community-based action can change the world. It has been behind every major social change - from women's rights to ending apartheid. Will it help save Greater Yellowstone, too? Presented by Mountain Journal and The Goldman Environmental Prize Sponsored by Hopa Mountain