This event is hosted by The Natural History Museum. The EJCJC Network and Columbia Climate School are not affiliated with this event; we are solely sharing it with our network.
With the infusion of billions of dollars of federal and state funding into climate and environmental resiliency research, conservation, and community-based projects in the United States, including more than $6 billion for ocean conservation alone, we’re on the cusp of a new conservation era, greater in scale to the movement spurred by Theodore Roosevelt in the late 19th century. As politicians and Big Greens tout the importance of Indigenous leadership and knowledge in these kinds of projects, there remains no practical roadmap for Native and non-Native collaboration. A lot can and does go wrong.
What would Indigenous-led conservation look like at such an enormous scale, and how would decisions be made? Focusing on ongoing work to fight coastal erosion on the Pacific coast, this Zoom Webinar engages a frank conversation with Native and non-Native ocean conservation practitioners grappling with the complexities of decolonizing the conservation movement and incorporating Indigenous worldviews effectively and appropriately with mainstream approaches.
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