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OLON NEW YORK CITY, USA

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The New York City OLON, held in April 2023, challenged and opposed colonialist conservation. It provided a platform to those who have suffered from supposed “green solutions”, and who have seen their lands stolen, their families abused and destroyed and their livelihoods devastated by the increasing militarization of conservation.

 

New York City OLON raised awareness about human rights abuses perpetrated in the name of conservation; established a strong counter-narrative to false solutions to ecological crises pushed by governments, corporations, and some big conservation NGOs; demonstrated that alternatives to the current model of conservation do exist; and broadcast Indigenous peoples themselves putting forward a vision for the protection of Earth's biological and cultural diversity.

OLON 2023, Protesting against colonial conservation at the Bronx Zoo

In 1906, an Indigenous man named Ota Benga was displayed in the Bronx Zoo. He later died by suicide. The Bronx Zoo is a part of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Today, over a century later, colonial conservation practices continue to violently displace Indigenous peoples from their lands.

SPEAKERS AT THE NEW YORK CITY OLON

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Yannick Ndoinyo

Tanzania

Executive Director for Traditional Ecosystems

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Tom Goldtooth

USA

Executive Director Indigenous Environmental Network, Navajo Nation, USA 

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Ashley Dawson

USA

Professor of Postcolonial Studies, CUNY, USA

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Robert Flummerfelt 

DR of Congo

Investigative journalist and independent researcher

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John Knox

USA

Professor of human rights law at Wake Forest and Special Rapporteur on human rights

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Shauri Molimo

DR of Congo

Activist and Community Leader

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Mordecai Ogada

Kenya

Ecologist and researcher, specialist in carnivorous species and conservation

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Simon Counsell

United Kingdom

Independent researcher and author on nature conservation, human rights and “Nature-Based Solutions”

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Fiore Longo

France

Research and Advocacy Manager at Survival International

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker

United States

Lecturer in Native American Studies at CSUSM and educator in Native American environmental policy

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