Paper short abstract:

Robin Roth is the principle investigator of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership in Canada and Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph. She will speak to her understanding of the profound personal and systemic transformation needed for conservation to truly be decolonized.

Paper long abstract:

Dominant conservation practice is intimately connected to colonialism. To decolonize conservation, we must recognize how its logic not merely reflects, but promotes and drives a logic that is profoundly socially and environmentally harmful.