Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

10/10/2025
14:00 - 15:30
Reimagining Conservation
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Let's explore important questions such as: Whose vision, worldviews, ways of knowing, and values/priorities drive our collective understanding of what conservation "is" and how and by whom it should be done? How can we reimagine NGO and donors’ roles, including to transform/shift power and decision-making?

Description de la séance

Few conservation concepts evoke as polarised and complex discussions as area-based conservation. In the name of conserving biodiversity, competing concepts of ‘conservation’, ‘effectiveness’, relationships with and responsibilities to the earth, and concepts such as justice and rights, have played out across geographies and scales. Long before area-based conservation emerged as the counterpart to unsustainable development in the form of government-led protected areas; conservation existed for millennia, based on local values, ways of knowing and customary systems that were highly adaptable. While these actors are gaining increasing visibility in global normative frameworks, in many ways the status quo remains unchanged.
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Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy

Speaker

Speaker Jillie Karl BASAN

Communications- Liaison Officer

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Speaker Kevin CHANG

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Speaker Jessica CAMPESE

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Speaker Ali RAZMKHAH

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Speaker Luciano Régis Cardoso

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power

Speaker Neil DAWSON

Whose area-based conservation? Exploring rights, responsibilities, knowledge and power