John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers

[ismerelda]

What an inspiring talk.... makes me wonder how they generated the 5.7 million dollars?? was it eco-tourism?? Tourism has it's own issues of pollution and cultural degradation, along with commercialization.

[McSnookerman]

great, start with a racist joke

[humanist7117]

Enlightened! Inspiring!

[Anantko]

Would anybody agree with me in saying he got his standing ovation because of his race or do you believe a white person with the same talk would get a standing ovation too?

[belliebum12]

@Anantko I wouldn't say because of his race, I would say he got a standing ovation because he is an example of an African person helping solve a major problem in his own homeland. A white person couldn't give the same talk, because white people are a very, very, very small minority in Namibia, and it would be very hard to believe that a white person was raised in the Savannah.

[Anantko]

@belliebum12 I think I would agree with @engelheim in saying a white man wouldn't be as inspirational allthough i think your right in saying a white person wouldn't be able to give this talk but still i don't exactly think you have a yes or no answer either do you?

[belliebum12]

@Anantko I would say no based on a combination of engelheim's answer and my own answer.

[Moirera]

@Anantko

You are mistaking skin colour with national identity... Also the merits of the accomplishments. It's a very poor country with a small population that is managing to do an amazing job in bringing species back from the edge of extinction... A lot of developed first world countries can't even manage that.

Although tbh what you're saying reeks of whitey insecurity.

[Anantko]

@Moirera Yes you are right in saying he does manage to do something which many developed nations have failed to achieve but my point is saying had he not been from Namibia or had he not been black, then I don't believe he would have had the audience so engaged or interrested.

and I don't see how you can sense "white insecurity" as never do I say his achievements arn't big and i can admit i've not managed to do anything big in my life. Also i'm asian so my race is kind of similiar to his...

[countryroo123]

@Moirera Surley whitey is as racist as blackey.

BTW: I compleatly agree with you...I've just objecting to the referance.

[countryroo123]

@countryroo123 reference* Sorry!

[engelheim]

@Anantko I think a white man in his situation couldn't have been so inspirational, because then it wouldn't have seemed like an African solution but just another external solution to an African problem. It is good to see Africa solving its own problems (and I know Africa has a large white population but the image of colonialist is hard to shake)

That is not to say the talk did not deserve an ovation on its own merits, it did.

[notme222]

"Namibia has 2.1 million people. But it is only twice the size of California."

Calfornia has 37 million people. (Well, likely much more than that counting illegal immigration.) So his sentence seems structured backwards. I'll chalk that up to English being his second language, but it left me unclear on what point he was trying to make at first. (Not really criticizing, it's just unfortunate.)

[ForYeensSake]

@notme222 I'm guessing he's just trying to give us a idea of his country and what it looks like. I noticed it aswell but hey in the end it was hard not to clap with the crowd xD.

[nublex]

@notme222 haha you yankee douchebag :D it left you "unclear" cuz you're a dimwit, the sentence makes perfect sense. i'll add that if instead of saying how great of a work he has done you notice a bad sentence then what the fuck is your life about anyway

[notme222]

@nublex , Any chance you could follow me around and criticize all my comments? It makes me look _so good_ by comparison!

Please?

[nublex]

@notme222 for sure homie ;)

sorry for sounding rude, that was not my intention. i'm sure you're an alright bloke

[sugarkang]

privatization.  it works.

[xtyg]

the corruption and conflict is financial by the greates of the first world....with our beneplacit.... we are one...ONE WORLD IS ENOGHT FOR ALL OF US This man talk with your heart. The same heart of the planet. Can´t u understanding??

[LokiClock]

Funny how he says "shout from the rooftops" while showing a picture of mountains.

[Vortex42]

Great news!

[Rensucks]

I think i saw mayer in the video at 5.38

[Kargoneth]

I just hope it's real AIDS education... not this abstinence-only bullshit.

[countryroo123]

@Kargoneth Keep in mind that even condoms only are 97% secure. Abstinence is the only 100% guarantee.

[Kargoneth]

@countryroo123

Abstinence is 100% effective. Abstinence-only education is a failure. Many people are going to be sexually active and they should know how to protect themselves as best as possible.

[countryroo123]

@Kargoneth In complete agreement with you there. Shame that in most cases in Africa they can't aford to buy condoms and other forms of birth control. I wonder if they have free condom stands.

[Kargoneth]

@countryroo123

An artificial shortage of free condoms has been created by governments in places like Uganda. Free condoms are being impounded in their warehouses for no good reason.

[countryroo123]

@Kargoneth Why?

[throwsparx]

Another great TED Gem

[ArcaneKarma]

Namibia has been going in the right direction for about 20 years. They've yet to have growth rates like China, India, ets... But it's good to see.

[taeyeonlover]

Man, I really liked the talk, but I couldn't understand some parts because of his accent... I hope someone puts up captions for this.

[Mrmoc7]

@taeyeonlover

Watch the video on TED's website. It has an option, just below the video, to turn on English subtitles. I was actually writing you the subtitles myself, but a google search for Joshua Kangombe revealed that a subtitle already existed. :o

[taeyeonlover]

@Mrmoc7 Oh thanks :)

Come to think of it, I do recall seeing subtitles on TED's website.

[Chavalierdeon]

here, mexico, the goverment is selling out every natural resource to generate temporal jobs : /

[WimpBastard]

@Chavalierdeon time travel?!?!

[Shalek]

Oh that's so genius.

[AlexanderArts]

Good speech and the animation at the end was cute too.

[reapfreak]

A strict following of property rights is the cure for ailments, not crappy beurocracy. No surprise that endangered species laws and international regulations only cause further problems.

[TingTang1234567]

I am genuinely happy to hear that conservation efforts are taking hold and the populations are recovering :) Still alot of work to do, obviously, but I feel better knowing my children and granchildren still have a chance to see rhinos and lions in the wild :)

A wonderful conservation program :D

[Conundrummy]

Love the anecdotes

[RetardedFishyX]

topless, thats all im sayin

[defect530]

@RetardedFishyX

there are some people i really dont want to see topless. other than that, hell yeah :D

[rabbitwho]

Great work! :)

[fosibodu]

Thanks for the good news from my home continent! What a breath of fresh air!

[MaggieHG]

A very informative speech by Mr. Kasaona. And I loved the animation-film at the end. Lovely! Thank you for uploading.

[P00P0STER0US]

Excellent work, and it's great to see good news from an area of the world that most people in first-world countries know little about, beyond the more popular problems. Africa really is a busy beehive of intellectual and industrial progress. The images we are fed in first-world nations is that of corruption and conflict and disease with little mention of the normal and good things that are plentiful.

[s2tephen]

at ted, we scoff at naming conventions!

[RazielKain]

In b4 proper name? ^^

[7DavidKim]

MORGAN FREEMAN 1:57

[VitriolicAC]

@7DavidKim no.