How can we address historic and ongoing injustices in conservation?

11/10/2025

11:00 - 12:00

Reimagining Conservation , Onsite

Exhibition

Delivering on Equity Disruptive Innovation and Leadership for Conservation

Why attend

Come and join indigenous representatives, conservation professionals and others in a critical conversation about constructive ways forward on this controversial issue.

Session Description

In this session, we will explore what constitutes good practice in cases of unresolved past and ongoing injustices in conservation. For example, when and how should protected areas that have displaced indigenous peoples be returned to them? What steps can be taken to rebuild trust? And what approaches are most likely to enable effective indigenous stewardship of returned areas?

Organised by

Reimagining Conservation Pavilion

Partners

Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy

Speaker

Jo Ann Guillao

Coordinator, IPRI

Ricardo Camilo NIÑO IZQUIERDO

Indigenous Secretariat Director, Comisión Nacional de Territorios Indígenas

Trevor SANDWITH

Director - IUCN Centre for Conservation Action, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature