Jonathan Teller with the Chelsea Green came across a video of Allan Savory, founder of Holistic Management and the Savory Institute, speaking at a FEASTA event this past fall. After watching the hour long video, Jonathan found he was left wanting more information and contacted Allan to get answers to some of his most pressing questions. The interview that follows gives readers a deeper look into Holistic Management and the work of Savory and the Savory Institute.

Following up with Allan Savory on using cattle to reverse desertification and global warming

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In an interview conducted by The Society for Range Management, Allan Savory answers that "there is no other tool available to us to scientifically manage these vast areas" of brittle rangeland than livestock.

Allan Savory, founder of Holistic Management and The Savory Institute states his thoughts clearly when asked:

No, I would agree and I believe the data on the extent of livestock's contribution to climate change is woefully inadequate and conservative. Livestock, as managed since domestication, and as managed today in factory environments and on the land, is contributing far more to climate change than the published literature indicates. However, despite this, livestock remain the only tool with which to fully address climate change: sequestering the legacy load of carbon, reversing desertification and the loss of biodiversity so that carbon can continue to be sequestered in grassland soils in increasing amounts. Aldo Leopold made the statement that we might have to use the very tools that destroyed the environment to restore it. He was more prophetic than he realized.

The article in this month's Rangelands issue speaks to the important role science and scientists play in saving our planet. Until it is understood that we can change the way things are today using Holistic Management on the land, we will continue down our current road of disaster.

Thank you to the Society for Range Management for conducting this interview and bringing these issues and solutions into greater awareness.

When it comes to saving the world, as Allan says: "We have all of the money required to do this but we do not enjoy the luxury of time."

For the complete article please visit our Article Section of our website.

Of the 215 entries submitted the Savory Institute's sister organization, the Africa Centre For Holistic Management has been chosen as one of 30 outstanding semi-finalists.

This year's distinguished jury will select a winner who will be presented with the OmniOculi sculpture and the $100,000 prize money to honor and encourage further development of their work at a public ceremony in Washington DC, on June 5, 2010.

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