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Join the conference virtually at 9.00am EDT on Friday, April 14th here.
OUR LAND !
OUR NATURE
Martin E. Segal Theatre,
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), 365 Fifth Ave,
10016 New York City, USA
New York City, USA
April 14th-15th, 2023
“OUR LAND,
OUR NATURE”
IS A CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS HOW TO DECOLONIZE
CONSERVATION
The conservation industry’s bid to create more “Protected Areas” and greenwashing claims that “Nature Based Solutions” like carbon credits will solve biodiversity loss and climate change are wrong.
This conference will expose these as colonial and false solutions to the crises we are facing today, and as approaches that devastate the best guardians of the natural world: the Indigenous Peoples who safeguard 80% of biodiversity.
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SPEAKERS
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In person and virtual participation
Yannick Ndoinyo
Executive Director for Traditional Ecosystems Survival, Tanzania
The problem with international conservation
Dina Gilio Whitaker
Academic, journalist and author, member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, USA
A new way forward: Indigenous land rights as environmental protection
Robert Flummerfelt
Investigative journalist and independent researcher, DR of Congo
Made in the USA: International conservation and US funding and conservation ideology
John Knox
Professor of human rights law at Wake Forest and Special Rapporteur on human rights
A new way forward: Indigenous land rights as environmental protection
Simon Counsell
Survival International
From colonialism to green capitalism: false solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises
Mordecai Ogada
Ecologist and Conservation writer, Kenya
Decolonizing Conservation
Ashley Dawson
Professor of Postcolonial Studies, CUNY, USA
Decolonizing conservation
Tom Goldtooth
Executive Director Indigenous Environmental Network, Navajo Nation, USA
From colonialism to green capitalism: false solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises
Fiore Longo
Survival International
The problem with international conservation
Shauri Molimo
Batwa Leader
Made in the USA: International conservation and US funding and conservation ideology
PROGRAM
14th April
(all times are in EDT)
8.30 - 9.00 a.m
Coffee and welcome
9.00 - 9.15 a.m
Introduction by Daniel Lavelle
9.15 - 10.30 a.m
The problem with international conservation
10.45 a.m - 12.00 p.m
Made in the USA: US conservation ideology and funding
12.00 - 1.00 p.m
Lunch Break
1.00 - 2.15 p.m
Decolonizing conservation
2.30 - 3.45 p.m
A new way forward: Indigenous land rights as environmental protection
3.45 - 5.00 p.m
From colonialism to green capitalism: false solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises
15th April
12.00 p.m.
Public demonstration with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping choir at the New York City Bronx Zoo
5.00 - 6:00 p.m
Reception and "Decolonizing Conservation" book launch
PARTNERS
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OUR LAND OUR NATURE!
A CONFERENCE TO DECOLONIZE CONSERVATION