Ragnhild Jacobsson (born 15 July 1966) is a Norwegian entrepreneur, social worker, and

environmental activist The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists advoc ...

Personal life

Jacobsson is married to

Lars Valentin Jacobsson Lars Jacobsson (born May 11, 1965) is a Swedish entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, and conservationist. Career Jacobsson initially worked in the petroleum industry, where he was involved in starting up storage, trading and shipping compani ...

and the couple supports animal projects globally.

Philanthropy

Ragnhild and her husband Lars have been working on animal projects since 2000. They bought Volunteer Travels Ltd. in 2008 and founded

The Perfect World Foundation The Perfect World Foundation is a non-governmental organisation that raises awareness and supports efforts to prevent the global ecological crisis. The organization was founded by Ragnhild Jacobsson and Lars Valentin Jacobsson in 2010. The organ ...

in 2010. The organizations are now working on more than 80 wildlife and environmental projects in 23 countries. In 2014, Jacobsson, under the umbrella of The Perfect World Foundation, arranged a wildlife gala and conference in

Scandinavia Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion#Europe, subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, ...

. The event was titled ''Save the Rhino 2014'' and was, at the time, the largest of its type in the region.

Mark Shand Mark Roland Shand (28 June 1951 – 23 April 2014) was a British travel writer and conservationist and the brother of Queen Camilla. Shand was the author of four travel books and as a BBC conservationist, appeared in documentaries related to hi ...

who was among the advisors to hold this event was the guest of honour and was awarded the "Conservationist of Year 2014" award and the "Fragile Rhino". Both Ragnhild and Lars are ambassadors of the London-based organisation "

Elephant Family Elephant Family is an international NGO dedicated to protecting the Asian elephant from extinction in the wild. In the last fifty years their population has roughly halved and 90% of their habitat has disappeared. Poaching, a growing skin tra ...

" and are actively involved in the conservation of

Asian elephant The Asian elephant (''Elephas maximus''), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is the only living species of the genus ''Elephas'' and is distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west, Nepal in the no ...

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