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Event type
Previous Event
Event status
Passed
Dates
9 April 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Duration
1h
Price
Free

Effective conservation management must be informed by robust information on the status of species and their habitats of concern. In relation to human interactions, this is generally derived from research-led scientific studies.

Increasingly, however, it is recognised that indigenous communities around the world possess an extremely rich body of knowledge about local environmental resources and biodiversity, developed through interactions with the non-human environment around them.

Indigenous knowledge has the potential to be an invaluable tool to aid conservation around the world – helping to monitor key components of biodiversity, support sustainable use of environmental resources and enforce conservation management through indigenous value systems.

Although there is huge scope to integrate indigenous knowledge into conservation management, non-scientific knowledge systems are becoming progressively eroded worldwide and the information cannot always be easily interpreted, creating barriers for use in many social-ecological conservation systems.

What are the challenges, limitations, and future scope for building this unique body of knowledge into biodiversity conservation?

Speakers

  • Paul Barnes, University College London & Zoological Society of London: "Working with the experts: Changing relationships between people and nature, and the implications for conservation in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua"
  • Chantal Elkin, Alliance of Religions and Conservation: "The role of religion in conservation"
  • Dr Lisa Ingwall-King, UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre: "Importance of integrating Indigenous knowledge for the conservation of biological and cultural diversity: a case study from Guyana"
  • Professor Jay Mistry, Royal Holloway University of London and Co-Director, Cobra Collective CIC: "Viewing conservation through a different lens: working with Indigenous knowledge through participatory video"
Event details
  • This Science and Conservation Event was free to attend and booking was not required. 
  • Venue: Huxley Lecture Theatre, Main Meeting Rooms, ZSL London Zoo.  
  • Underground – Camden Town Station; Nearest bus - no. 274 
  • Chaired by Dr Raj Puri, Centre for Biocultural Diversity, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent.
  • Organised by Dr Samuel Turvey & Lizzie Jones, Zoological Society of London.
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