10/10/2025
16:00 - 17:00
Reimagining Conservation
, Onsite
Why attend
To hear, and better understand, different perspectives, different priorities and different approaches - some of which may even improve conservation effectiveness!!
Session Description
Species-based conservation is often focussed on the need to protect endangered species - particularly the most iconic - and there can be an assumption that this protection entails a separation from people. This session will present alternative perspectives on how to monitor, manage and conserve species - highlighting some of the tensions that exist between Indigenous and western scientific knowledge, between protection from use and protection through use, and between high tech approaches and low tech community-based monitoring. It will highlight efforts that have been made to combine these different approaches rather than setting them at odds with each other.Organised by
Reimagining Conservation Pavilion
Partners
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy
Speaker
Moderator
Principal Researcher (Biodiversity), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)