Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation
Lessons Learned From a Decolonial Conservation Partnership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7150809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Bishop (University of Guelph), A C Bishop (University of Guelph, corresponding author), Rainer Roth (0000-0003-2296-6386, University of Guelph), Robin Roth (University of Guelph), Deborah Mcgregor (0000-0003-2234-7331, University of Calgary), Fiona Moola (0000-0001-9803-8514, University of Guelph), Faisal Moola, Steven Nitah (Nature for Justice, Ontario Canada) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-36 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0972-4923 • E-ISSN: 0975-3133 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4103/cs.cs_9_24 |
| OpenAlex | W4405194931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opportunity are great. True transformational change in the conservation sector will require sustained commitment, collaborative effort, humility, courage, and accountability within complex systems with many actors and interests. In this paper, and in the context of scholarly debates reconciliation and resurgence, we examine the efforts of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP)—an Indigenous-led, large-scale, multi-sectoral decolonial conservation partnership in Canada created to help elevate Indigenous-led conservation and support the transformation of the conservation sector. Drawing on our own experiences, public-facing materials the partnership has created, and the results of a mid-term evaluation, we assess the challenges and benefits of the CRP and offer key lessons for others wishing to create decolonial conservation partnerships
Accountability · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · General partnership · Geography · Indigenous · Legitimacy · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Transformative learning · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Public Administration · Ecology
Supporting resurgent Indigenous-led governance
Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship
Deploying Difference
Indigenous and decolonial futures
A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
Reconciliation and environmental justice
Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas
Aboriginal peoples, Parks Canada, and protected spaces
Let the Line be Drawn Now’
Two-Eyed Seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |