Friday
Please click on the session names below to view abstracts, authors and a session description, including speakers and talks (please note that co-authors are acknowledged in the full Congress programme with abstracts). Also, note that venues for each session are NOT YET CONFIRMED.
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| Early Morning Concurrent Sessions 8:00 - 10:00 am | |||||||||
| TWH* | TWM | CFS | Theatre | MBL - Headlands | |||||
| Global Strategy for Plant Conservation | Indigenous Forum: Anpernirrentye | Contributed Papers: Ethno- medicine |
Resilience Thinking | ||||||
| BREAK 10:00 - 10:30 am | |||||||||
| Late Morning Concurrent Sessions 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | |||||||||
| TWH | TWM | CFS | Theatre | MBL - Headands |
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| Policy Matters - Alphabet Soup | Protection of biological & cultural diversity - legal focus on Ind. knowledge |
Contributed Papers: Ethnobiology in Canada | Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction - A Canada/Africa Research Alliance |
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| Farewell | Farewell | Farewell | Farewell | Farewell | |||||
| 12:00 pm END OF PROGRAMME | |||||||||
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Afternoon available for informal meetings, networking, shopping or return travel for those flying out of Vancouver late at night. Charter Bus leaves Tin Wis at 1:30 pm |
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Indigenous Film Festival |
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*TWH = Tin Wis Hall; TWM = Tin Wis Muu-chin-ink Room; CFS = Clayoquot Field Station Classroom; MBL = Middle Beach Lodge; Theatre = Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre
Friday May 14
Early Morning Concurrent Sessions
8:00 am - 10:00 am
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: an adequate policy framework for resource management by indigenous peoples and local communities?
Friday May 14, 8:00 am - 10:00 am, Tin Wis Hall
Co-chair: Gary Martin (Global Diversity Foundation, USA) and Nancy Turner (University of Victoria, Canada)
Panel Participants
- Jan Salick (Missouri Botanical Gardens, USA)
Session Description: Join us for a multi-media presentation, roundtable and open discussion on the role of indigenous peoples and local communities in the policy and practice of plant conservation. In particular, we will address revised targets of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) that address indigenous and local knowledge, innovations and practices.
As reworded during a Liaison Group Meeting of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation (GPPC) held in May 2009, the targets now state:
- 70 per cent of the genetic diversity of crops and other socio-economically valuable plant species conserved, and associated indigenous and local knowledge maintained (Target 9)
Participants will be asked to assess if these goals are achievable and if they adequately address Articles 8j and 10c of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The discussion can be expanded to the contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities to other GSPC targets, including:
- Generating a widely accessible list of known plant species (target 1) and assessing of their conservation status (target 2)
- Devising effective management plans to address biological invasions (target 10) taking into account that weedy species may be locally important plant resources
- Ensuring no species of wild flora is endangered by international trade (target 11) while increasing the percentage of plant-based products derived from naturally occurring sources that are sustainably managed (target 12)
- Sharing of advice and guidance for plant conservation based on research and practical experience (target 3) and establishing networks for plant conservation activities at national, regional or international levels (target 16)
GPPC member institutions, including the Global Diversity Foundation, are jointly organizing the session. In keeping with the spirit of the ISE, we plan an innovative format allowing indigenous peoples and local community members to showcase their plant conservation efforts, perspectives and research. The presentations will be multimedia, including community video, photographic exhibitions, spoken commentary, a biodiversity fair and other forms of cultural expression.
Previous to the International Congress of Ethnobiology, on Sunday 9 May, we will invite selected indigenous peoples and their partners to participate in a one-day workshop on local perspectives on plant conservation. Apart from receiving current information on policy instruments, initiatives and institutions, they will prepare for the session by presenting brief case studies of their initiatives to illustrate and stimulate public debate on how indigenous and local knowledge, innovations and practices affect the sustainable use of plant resources.
Indigenous Forum: Anpernirrentye (Inter-relationships between people, plants, laws and all things): Arrernte values in landscapes and iconic bush food species
Friday May 14, 8:00 - 10:00 am, Tin Wis Muu-chin-ink Room
Co-chairs: Veronica Perurrle Dobson (Arrernte elder), Fiona Walsh (CSIRO, Australia), and Josie Douglas (CSIRO, Australia)
Session Description: The Arrernte concept of Anpernirrentye refers to the interrelatedness between all things. Arrernte and other desert people see close relationships between iconic bush food species, people who are custodians for species and places, ‘country’ and the Altyerr (‘Creation time, Laws’). A segment from a 13 minute DVD that uses sand drawings and explanations about specific plants will be shown to enliven this concept. This DVD and talk interprets and structures Arrernte testimony about bush food plants into domains and elements that combine into a traditional ecological knowledge system. The major domains transcribed are Altyerr, Apmer(‘Country’), Tyerrtye (‘People’) and these are centred on Merne (‘Plant food’). These are illustrated by three cultural keystone species (Ahakeye, Akatyerrand Yalke); one was selected for each domain. The domains and elements of this system align with traditional values within a landscape and its species. Slides will then be used to complement and explain Veronica’s narration of the DVD. These build up the complex concept of inter-relatedness.
Certain iconic bush food species are of high significance within desert ecology e.g. Ahakeye (Psydrax latifolium) has a powerful Altyerr, it is also a major food resource for desert bird species. A key domain of theAnpernirrentye concept is Tyerrtye (‘People’). It is vital that the proper traditional owners are involved in cultural and natural resource management processes. On Arrernte lands, this includes people of the right ‘skin’ who areApmereke-artweye (‘owner’) and Kwertengerle (‘manager’) of the place and/or species. These people are able to work in respect to their knowledge of the Altyerr.
The practical implications of the Anpernirrentye concept are described. This traditionally-derived concept has emerged from cross-cultural research that sought to explain the cultural values inherent in bush food species, some with high commercial monetary value in Western markets. However, we have found the concept has much wider application in ecological restoration, wetland management and traditional ecological knowledge documentation. Projects that do real work on country are an important opportunity for these concepts to be handed to younger generations of Arrernte and other Aboriginal people.
Ethnomedicine - Contributed Papers
Friday May 14, 8:00 am - 10:00 am, Clayoquot Field Station
Chair: Ina Vandebroek (New York Botanical Garden, USA)
- Karim-aly Kassam (Cornell University, USA) and Munira Karamkhudoeva (Pamir Biological Institute of the Tajik Academy of Sciences) "Food Sovereignty, Survival, and Resilience: Food as Medicine in the Afghan and Tajik Pamirs"
- Nemer Narchi (University of Georgia, USA), 'Soaked ethnomedicine: The socio-demographic factors that govern the acquisition of Seri marine medicinal knowledge'
- Christina Turi (University of Kent, UK) "Herbal Medicine and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in England and North America: An Examination of Herbal Materia Medica from the 16th century Onwards"
- Rama Maikhuri (HNB Garwhal Central University, India) "Nutraceutical Potential of Traditional Mountain Crops of the Indian Central Himalaya: Promotion and Conservation through Value Addition and Education"
- Didier Lacaze "Traditional indigenous medicine in Ecuadorian Amazon: is integration possible?"
What is Resilience Thinking and How Might it be Used to Conserve Cultural and Biological Diversity
Friday May 14, 8:00 am - 10:00 am, Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre
Co-chairs: Mike Jones (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden), Laura Loucks (Ecotrust Canada), and Eli Enns (Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks)
Session Description: Resilience thinking provides a holistic approach to ecosystem management that considers ecosystems from multiple scales and perspectives. The approach explicitly recognises that humans and nature are interdependent entities; and in contrast to the common view based on the metaphor of nature as a machine, treats ecosystems as complex, evolving and largely unpredictable. Resilience thinking regards the biosphere as a social-ecological system and uses three simple sense making models to reduce complexity to understandable and manageable proportions. The approach values different ways of knowing and qualitative views of nature as well as the quantitative view of scientific determinism. Multiple perspectives from multiple scales are integrated in adaptive co-management systems for learning and flexibility in response to ecosystem change, as opposed to simply following the more rigid prescriptions of a central scientific management authority. Ultimately resilience thinking offers ideas on how transformations can be wrought in degrading social-ecological systems that are losing their ability to support biological and human diversity.
This panel will present resilience thinking in two ways that encompass the global and the local. Mike Jones will present a concordance between Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic and the core resilience models and Laura Loucks will present her work with the communities of Clayoquot Sound applying resilience thinking to the development of a strategy for stewardship and sustainable use of Clayoquot's natural resources.
Playing with Amazonian Myths: a Workshop on Interactive Storytelling applied to the Education of Ethnobiology
Friday May 14, 8:00 am - 10:00 am, Middle Beach Lodge
Co-chairs: Simone Athayde (University of Florida) and Elaine Sponholtz (University of Florida)
NOTE: Participants have been selected for this workshop through expressions of interest (an email was sent to all registered delegates). They will be notified April 12, 2010.
Session Description: This workshop is directed to indigenous and non-indigenous educators, trainers, facilitators, museum personnel, and other people interested in applying art to the teaching of ethnobiology and conservation. In this workshop, the participants will get familiarized with techniques for involving the audience or students in the process of storytelling, focusing on Amazonian indigenous myths (from Karajá, Kaiabi and Yudjá indigenous peoples). Most of the myths were personally collected with Kaiabi and Yudjá peoples along 10 years of fieldwork.
Some of techniques to be explored are role play, musical instrument performance, film, masks, drawing, playing with characters and make your own story. The workshop will also include demonstration of multimedia techniques using augmented reality and digital 3D images in a computer- book platform, an interactive storytelling book. The myths included in the workshop will also be analyzed and discussed with the participants in terms of their spiritual and cosmological significance for indigenous peoples, as well as their interpretation according to western science theories.
Friday May 14
Late Morning Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Vital pursuit of policy matters: stirring the alphabet soup of initiatives, institutions and instruments
Friday May 14, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Tin Wis Hall
Co-chairs: Gary Martin (Global Diversity Foundation, UK), Harry Jonas and Holly Shrumm (both of Natural Justice, South Africa)
Moderators:
- Heather Leach (Global Diversity Fund, USA)
- Erin Smith (Global Diversity Fund, USA)
Session Contributors (others to be announced!):
- Alejandro Argumedo (ANDES, Peru)
- Jessica Brown (New England BioLabs Foundation, USA)
- Eli Enns (Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations, Canada)
- Liz Hosken (Gaia Foundation, UK)
- Jamili Nais (Sabah Parks, Malaysia)
- Andrea Pieroni (University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy)
- Bas Verschuuren (Compas and ErthCollective, the Netherlands)
- Robert Wild (IUCN CSVPA, UK)
Session Description: As ethnobiologists, we have to expand our awareness of policy matters by facing a bewildering but tasty alphabet soup of acronyms that define our duties and rights: CBD, FPIC, UNDRIP, GIAHS, COP, GSPC, MAT and many more. In order to increase our collective policy literacy, GDF and Natural Justice propose an entertaining, informative and broadly participatory session on the policy concepts, initiatives, institutions and instruments that are among the most important and inspiring for members of the International Society for Ethnobiology.
In the lead up to the ISE Congress, we have asked colleagues from various international organizations to explain the policy matters that most influence their work. The GDF Biocultural Diversity Learning Network (BDLN) team has made short PowerPoint presentations that summarize the main ‘talking points’ that are important to attaining a basic policy literacy. As participants arrive for the session, they will be assigned to one of several round tables spread around the room. Our panel of colleagues will present the Policy Matters PowerPoints, giving an overview of the institutions, initiatives and instruments related to biocultural diversity that guide ethical ways of interacting with sovereign countries and local communities.
After this series of three-minute speed presentations, we will play ‘Vital Pursuit’ (modelled after the popular game ‘Trivial Pursuit’) by asking of a series of 15 questions – prepared in advance by the BDLN team – that draw upon material from the presentations. The participants of each table will have 60 seconds to select, through a brief roundtable discussion, their response to each question and record it on an answer sheet. The answer sheets will be exchanged with the neighbouring table and then collectively marked while we reveal the correct answers on the screen. First, second and third prize will be awarded to the three tables that correctly answer the most questions. All participants will receive a memory stick or CD-ROM with the UNEP book Biocultural Community Protocols: a Community Approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy and other policy documents. After the ISE Congress, the presentations will be finalised by GJ Martin, Erin Smith and Heather Leach before posting them on the BDLN website (www.globaldiversityfund.net). We will end with a brief presentation and discussion on how to continue developing the ‘policy matters’ content of BDLN.
Protection of biological and cultural diversity - legal focus on Indigenous knowledge
Friday May 14, 10:30 - 12:00 pm, Muu-chin-ink Room, Tin Wis Resort
Presenters:
- David Stephenson (Rocky Mountain Thunder Law, USA), "Lessons from the San on the Role of Traditional Food in Revitalizing Cultural Heritage and Adapting to Global Change"
- Murray Browne (Woodward and Company, Victoria, Canada) ""The proof is in the putting? Clam gardens and fish weirs a proof of aboriginal title."
- Jerzy Koopman (Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER), Molengraaff Institute, School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) "Let’s go contractual: On an integrative way to prevent inequitable and unsustainable exploitation of indigenous biological and cultural resources."
Ethnobiology in Canada: A Cross-Section of Issues
Friday May 14, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Clayoquot Field Station
Chair: Leslie Main Johnson (Athabasca University, Canada)
- Heather Pratt (Baseline Archeological Services) and Deirdre Cullon (Laich-Kwil-Tach Treaty Society) "Changing Tides: From Food Foragers to Food Producers: An Examination of Fish Trap Knowledge"
- Evelyn Pinkerton (Simon Fraser University, Canada) "Cadastralizing or Coordinating the Clam Commons: Can Competing Community and Government Visions of Wild and Farmed Fisheries Be Reconciled?"
- Zoe Dalton (University of Toronto, Canada) and Aimee Johnson (Walpole Island First Nation, Canada) "Conservation in the midst of inequitable burdens: Perspectives from Bkejwanong First Nation on Canada’s Species at Risk Act"
- Aimee Johnson (Walpole Island First Nation, Canada) "“It’s in their blood”: Caring for the land in the context of Nation building and revitalization, from a Walpole Island First Nation perspective"
- Alain Cuerrier (Jardin Botanique de Montreal and Université de Montréal, Canada) "Inuit perception of climate change in Nunavik (Quebec, Canada)"
- Christine Tabib (McGill University, Canada) "Understanding Cree Culture and the Use of Traditional Medicine in the Waskaganish First Nation"
Sharing Knowledge: Innovative Practices of Communicating Research
Friday May 14, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Middle Beach Lodge
Co-chairs: Patricia Shanley (People and Plants International, Indonesia), Citlalli Lopez (Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales)
Panel Participants:
- Jenne de Beer (Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme for South and Souteast Asia, the Philippines)
- Miguel Alexiades (People and Plants International)
- Martin Chavez (Darrel Posey Small Grants Fellow, Mexico)
Session Description: Institutional incentives in academia often discourage scientists from engaging in outreach or extension activities, or participating fully in knowledge exchange with indigenous peoples and local communities. Even academics seeking to undertake research in ethical and equitable ways suffer within systems where performance is measured by the quantity of scientific publications and the ethics, equity, and importance of research to local groups are considered unimportant. The exchange of knowledge and sharing of research results is a central part of an ethical research process, however many researchers are unaware of their obligations and responsibilities in this regard, and few are experienced in appropriate and effective ways to share or exchange knowledge. This panel will explore diverse methods to communicate and share research results, including radio, theatre, games, illustrated booklets and manuals, video, and other means. It will explore lessons learned in a range of fields and disciplines that have developed innovative and practical ways to share knowledge (e.g., health care, agriculture), and present case studies from around the world (e.g., theatre and manuals in Brazil; games in Mexico, etc). A discussion period will follow, addressing amongst other topics: 1) the broader ethical obligations and responsibilities of researchers during the later stages of the research cycle, and 2) practical tools to most effectively exchange knowledge.
Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: A Canada Africa Research Alliance
Friday May 14, 10:30 - 12:00 pm, Clayoquot Community Theatre
Chair: Lance Robinson (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
Panel Participants:
- Lance Robinson (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
- Grant Murray (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
- Kim Seward-Hannam (Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Canada)
- Tory Stevens (British Columbia Parks, Canada)
- Laura Brown (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada)
- Nancy Turner (University of Victoria, Canada)
Session Description: The Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Canada-Africa Research and Learning Alliance (the Alliance) seeks to address the challenges of reducing rural poverty and ensuring environmental sustainability through a focus on protected areas and adjacent communities in Canada, Tanzania and Ghana. As highlighted in the Millennium Development Goals, alleviating rural poverty and ensuring environmental sustainability are two of the biggest issues facing the planet, and they are fundamentally and inextricably linked – extreme poverty inhibits environmental sustainability and degraded natural environments exacerbate rural poverty. While poverty and sustainability are complex, multifaceted issues that demand concerted attention and a variety of approaches our Alliance is focused on one increasingly prominent and controversial approach – the use of protected areas (PAs). PAs can and do mitigate biodiversity loss, protect ecosystem function and integrity, and generate significant socioeconomic benefits at local to national scales. As a result, calls to increase the number and extent of both marine and terrestrial PAs have multiplied. At the same time, however, an increasing number of studies have suggested that PAs can lead to the marginalization of local communities, increases in human-wildlife conflicts, inequity in flows of economic benefits and costs, the exacerbation of poverty, and the erosion of support for conservation. As a result, protected areas are at a crossroads.
If PAs are to succeed in reducing poverty and supporting environmental sustainability, ways must be found to: 1) maximize the delivery of equitable benefits; 2) better manage human-wildlife interactions; 3) re-conceptualize and improve PA governance; and 4) mobilize knowledge between academic researchers, community organizations, visitors, and managers. Our Alliance supports innovative research and learning in each of these four areas that will build capacity and be of direct use to local communities, academics and government agencies. Ghana, Tanzania and Canada share issues of acute poverty in rural communities in close proximity to protected areas that conserve ecologically significant features. However, the relationships between poor communities and protected areas differ substantially among these three countries due to: differences in the scope and causes of rural poverty; the involvement of local communities in protected area governance; past and present human-wildlife interactions; experience in linking conservation and development; tourism infrastructure; conservation strategies and threats; and ecosystem type.
The Alliance will foster a three-way flow of benefits where Canadians learn from Africans, Africans learn from Canadians, and Africans learn from each other. The Alliance will support a collaboratively developed research and learning program involving a multi-method comparative case-study approach, the development of effective and innovative mechanisms to exchange ideas, and the training of students, researchers, and community members. This session will provide a forum for graduate students and team members to outline and discuss their planned and ongoing research and the specifics of each contribution will be developed in the time leading up to the conference.
This session will have three components. The first component (about 20 minutes) will provide an overview of the project, focusing on initial fieldwork conducted in Ghana. The second component (about 20 minutes) will feature a panel discussion designed to critique and challenge our approaches and preliminary results. The third component of the session (about 45 minutes) will engage the audience through small group discussion (think, pair, share), aimed at drawing out the varied experiences of the audience around our project theme of protected areas and poverty reduction, illustrating if possible, examples where protected areas have served to increase benefits to local communities and reduce poverty, as well as examples where protected areas have failed in this regard, exacerbating poverty, and resulting in the erosion of support for conservation. We are particularly interested to hear about experiences with “knowledge mobilization”: under what situations has research been effectively used by agencies and communities to support effective decision making.
- Monday May 10, 2010
- Tuesday May 11, 2010
- Wednesday May 12, 2010
- Thursday May 13, 2010
- Friday May 14, 2010