End of May marked the start of the annual wool-shearing season across the flocks of the Atlas Mountains. To this day, the work is carried out the old traditional way: entirely by hand, using manual shears and no machinery.
The 2025 GDF seed grant-supported projects have been awarded to 5 GEN members and represent locally grounded responses to urgent conservation and cultural challenges across Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Samoa.
A collective publication in the form of a collection of stories, tales, poems and invocations reclaiming our entangled relations to land
A collaborative essay and conversation between Dr. Carolyn Finney and Akshay Chettri around the current politics and future potentials of the field of conservation.
[title] Our Wild Stories[author] Shona Fernyhough[year] 2025 [category] video essay[keywords] conservation futures, invitation, storytelling, cultural stories for entangled futures https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=q6MQ0TBAN-t2arFD&v=Oa-dyYt7utQ&feature=youtu.be
[title] A resource guide for the newly curious or non-scientific[author] Beth Pantuliano[year] 2025 [category] bibliography, practice, invitation to read[keywords] conservation futures, unlearning, loving nature, environmental & climate change, tools for a more conscious living This resource guide is incomp
[title] A Story of Roots and Canopies: Reimagining Conservation in a Changing World[author] Andres Acosta[year] 2025 [category] essay[keywords] conservation futures, emergence in the ruins, rekindling connections Powered By EmbedPress
[title] Gratitude to Providencia[author] Carolina Soto Vargas[year] 2025 [category] essay[keywords] conservation futures, island ecologies, mourning landscapes In 2020, we found ourselves surrounded by uncertainty as a virus spread across the globe. Months passed, and during the pandemic, Hurricane Iota arrived
Wednesday 7th May, 5 – 6:30 pm CEST LINK TO SESSION RECORDING Borrowing its title from a phrase by Bayo Akomolafe, our second conversation moves to territories in ‘breakdown’, giving space to projects, communities and practices that proceed and arise in times that feel like the end of the/their world. Thi
Wednesday 16th April, 5 – 6:30 pm CEST LINK TO SESSION RECORDING For our first in-conversation dialogue, we bring leading conservation practitioners and thinkers to engage with us in a discussion about the prospective futures of conservation practices and environmental action during a time of social, economic
