Supporting Indigenous-led sustainable wildlife management
Speaker: Dr. David Wilkie, Wildlife Conservation Society
Thursday, April 25th, 2024 | 12-1pm EST
Location: Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA)
Online Viewer Livestream Registration – Apr 25
Summary
This presentation will provide a quick tour of what the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has learned over the last 50 years and might help others offer respectful, and useful support to Indigenous Peoples keen to maintain the natural systems that are central to their wellbeing and cultural sense of self.
Bio:
Dr. David Wilkie is the Senior Technical Advisor to the Executive Vice President of WCS Global. He is a co-founder of the Conservation Measures Partnership, was a co-chair of the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force, and helped establish the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights, the Failure Factors Initiative, and the Conservation Social Science Partnership.
David has over 40 years of experience working with Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Central Africa, Central and South America, and Asia to support their efforts to conserve nature in their lands and waters. He is a Ph.D. wildlife ecologist with a post-doctoral specialization in evolutionary anthropology. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and books. He is the WCS lead advisor for the EU SWM Program led by FAO, and the former Executive Director of the WCS Rights + Communities Program.