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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

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“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.

Speakers
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SPEAKERS
INCLUDE

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

Agenda

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

Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center,
City University of New York (CUNY), 365 Fifth Ave,
New York City, 10016 USA
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