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- Convenor:
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Justin Kenrick
(Forest Peoples Programme)
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- Discussant:
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Marcus Colchester
- Format:
- Plenary
Short Abstract
This session will start with a welcome to the conference by Prof Dame Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome (President of the RAI), Dr David Shankland (Director of the RAI) and Amanda Vinson (Conference Co-ordinator).
Accepted speakers
Session 1Short abstract
Increasingly Indigenous Knowledge is becoming valued in conservation efforts around the world. Yet are Indigenous People benefiting from those conservation efforts? Dr Sherry Pictou discusses using an Indigenous feminist lens to explore this question within tensions between neocolonial capitalism and conservation.
Speaker bio
Brief bio: Dr Sherry Pictou is a Mi’kmaw scholar at Dalhousie University and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance. She is the first female Honorary District Chief for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and is a member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge.
Short abstract
The creation of protected areas is in the first place an idea of those who know their forest destruction potential. Indigenous peoples like the Sengwer fail to understand why an area would be protected, protected from who? The relationship between these communities and their forest are symbiotic, their survival and that of the forest are so interdependent and has ensured the conservation of the forest for many years. Creating walls between these communities and their forests fuels evictions and exposes the forest to exploitation by those who have no long-term relationship with the forests.
Speaker bio
Brief bio: Milka is a Sengwer community leader from Kenya, who works tirelessly to support her community. She works with FPP, CLAN and ICCA - coordinating ICCA’s defending Territories of Life programme, and coordinating the Community Land Act Now network (CLAN) in Kenya. She will soon be undertaking a PhD in Anthropology.
Short abstract
The Wampis people have conserved more than one million hectares of our forests and biodiversity, which constitute the thousands of years old legacy of our ancestors. This is why we want to register our territory as 'Territories of Life' with the ICCA to prevent the Peruvian State (mainly through its natural protected areas agency, SERNANP) from continuing to categorize our territories without our consent. The Wampis people have lived freely within our territory in accordance with our social and cultural principles. For us, caring for the forests, the land and the air we breathe has been very important to live in harmony with nature.
Speaker bio
Brief bio: My name is Galois Flores Pizango, from the native community of Yama Nunka in the River Santiago district, province of Condorcanqui, department of Amazonas, in the Peruvian Amazon. I am currently the Pamuk Ayatke (vice president) of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW). This is the first time that I have assumed a political position.
Short abstract
Marisol will speak about the dispossession facing Kichwa communities due to the Peruvian State's failure to collectively title their lands, land invasions and logging and exclusionary conservation areas.
Speaker bio
Brief bio: Marisol García Apagüeño is a Kichwa leader and secretary of the Federation of Kichwa Indigenous Peoples of Chazuta Amazonas (FEPIKECHA) in San Martin in the Peruvian Amazon.