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Dear Jack,

The third “Our Land, Our Nature” Conference to Decolonize Conservation is taking place on April 14th in New York City, and we’d love for you to join. It’s also being streamed online.

This conference seeks to change the conversation around mainstream conservation by bringing together Indigenous peoples from around the world, along with other human rights experts, to elevate the voices of those who have seen their lands stolen and their livelihoods devastated by the increasing militarization of conservation. 

Indigenous and local people’s voices are all-too-often unheard or ignored, and this conference is a rare opportunity to change thinking around conservation, and to advocate for an alternative approach based on Indigenous rights.

You can register for the conference online, or join in person. We hope to see you there!

We’ll also be holding a protest on April 15th outside the Bronx Zoo, which is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). WCS is one of the world’s oldest conservation organizations and has a long history of complicity in human rights abuses in the name of conservation. Learn more about the protest and register here.

You may also be interested in the virtual symposium Unfence the Future: Taking Down Fortress Conservation and its Enduring Legacy, happening today and tomorrow: bit.ly/UnfenceTheFuture. This conference brings together community leaders, activists, scientists, and scholars working to dismantle the enduring legacies of fortress conservation in institutions of U.S. law, historic preservation, and conservation.

And lastly, I wanted to let you know that a powerful and unique collection of voices from the first, ground-breaking “Our Land, Our Nature" conference is being published now. Titled “Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-determination, Land, and a World In Common”, it exposes the deadly reality of colonial and racist conservation for Indigenous peoples around the world, while suggesting alternatives to tackle the climate crisis.

With best wishes,

Shayann Hendricks
Survival USA