Indigenous and Western Scientific Collaboration for Conservation: Following a New Path Toward our Sustainable Future

11/10/2025
12:30 - 13:00
Forum - Arena , Híbrido (presencial con transmisión en directo)
Sesión con interpretación

Por qué asistir

Join our Lakota and Sámi Nation presenters as they unveil a powerful new model that allows for equitable, respectful and successful collaboration between Indigenous and Western scientific systems for the purpose of conserving and sustaining all life.

Descripción de la sesión

The majority of Indigenous scientific systems were developed over many thousands of years to ensure the sustainability of life forms within their respective territories. This knowledge and scientific understanding will inform new paths in the face of accelerated environmental shifts due to anthropogenic climate change, but there are challenges to bringing Indigenous science forward in a meaningful way within the current Western scientific framework. In this session, we share a newly developed and successfully applied model that allows for authentic cross-cultural and cross-scientific system collaboration for the purpose of sustaining all life. Our award-winning, collaborative research regarding horses will serve as a case study, and another case features research to support the mobility and resilience of semi-nomadic reindeer herders. We invite you to join us as we follow our reindeer and Horse Nation relatives on this new path toward our shared, sustainable future.
Organised by
Taku Skan Skan Wasakliyapi: Global Institute for Traditional Sciences logo
Taku Skan Skan Wasakliyapi: Global Institute for Traditional Sciences
Asociaciones
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History - New York ( United States of America ) logo
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History - New York ( United States of America )

Speaker

Speaker Mary BLAIR

Associate Director

Indigenous and Western Scientific Collaboration for Conservation: Following a New Path Toward our Sustainable Future

Speaker YVETTE RUNNING HORSE COLLIN

Principal Science Officer

Indigenous and Western Scientific Collaboration for Conservation: Following a New Path Toward our Sustainable Future