Thursday
Please click on the session names below to view more information about each session, 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.
| Thursday May 13 | |||||||||
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ISE General Assembly |
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| LUNCH 11:00 - 1:30 pm | |||||||||
| Early Afternoon Concurrent Sessions 1:30 - 3:00 pm | |||||||||
| TWH* | TWM | CFS | Theatre | MBL | |||||
| Indigenous Grant-making | IF: Sacred Spaces | ISE Ethics Toolkit Workshop |
Contributed Papers: Integrating |
Ethno-ornithology I | |||||
| BREAK 3:00 - 3:30 pm | |||||||||
| Late Afternoon Concurrent Sessions 3:30 - 5:00 pm | |||||||||
| TWH* | TWM | CFS | Theatre | MBL | |||||
| Merging Nutrition and Ethnobotany | IF: Sacred Spaces Cont'd | ISE Ethics Toolkit Workshop Cont'd | Contributed Papers: Integrating Worldviews into Conservation II |
Ethno-ornithology II | |||||
| DINNER BREAK 5:00 - 6:45 pm | |||||||||
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Dessert Reception and Open Mic Night |
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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; TCH = Tofino Community Hall. ALL VENUES ARE TENTATIVE, FINAL PROGRAM WILL BE POSTED IN MARCH 2010
Thursday, May 13
Early Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
International Indigenous Grantmaking: Trends and Strategies to Creatively Manage During Challenging Times
Thursday May 13, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Tin Wis Hall
Chair: Evelyn Arce (International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, USA)
Workshop Panel Participants:
- Ken Wilson (The Christensen Fund, USA)
- Jessica Brown (New England BioLab Foundation, USA)
- others to be confirmed
Indigenous cultures appear rarely on funder radar screens. In 2005, US foundations gave $3.8 billion for international projects; only 0.003 percent supported indigenous peoples. And yet IUCN estimates that 80 percent of the biodiversity-intense global hotspots are inhabited by indigenous peoples. How can we be both more fair and more effective? Where and with whom? At this historical juncture funders can play an important role in supporting calls for real reform of the global economy, and for greater transparency, accountability, and equity in the financial system. Join us as we will share findings from the report “International Grantmaking IV: An Update on U.S. Foundation Trends” and Foundation Grantmaking to International Indigenous Peoples :Crossing Borders, Setting Trends, the latest in international indigenous giving and discuss the outlook for the field, based on a 2008 survey of leading U.S. international grantmakers, regarding their response to the current financial crisis. We will also hear perspectives from a donor association and a donor on how its foundation (s) are dealing more creatively with the economic downturn and ways that this may be an opportunity for a transitional funding era.
Indigenous Forum: Building a Global Coalition to Protect Sacred Natural Sites
Thursday May 13, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm*, Tin Wis Muu-chin-ink Room
Co-Chairs:Robert Wild (IUCN World Commission of Protected Areas Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA), UK) and Toby MacLeod (Project Director, Sacred Land Film Project of Earth Island Institute, USA)
*Please note this is a double session with a 30 min break
Participants:
- Levi Martin, Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations, Canada
- Emil Terkishev, Altai Republic, Russian Federation
- Wolde Gossa Tadesse, Programme Christensen Fund, Ethiopia
- Danil Mamyev, Altai Republic, Russian Federation
- Liz Hosken, Gaia Foundation, UK
- Gathuru Mburu, African Biodiversity Network, Kenya
Session Description: Sacred Natural Sites, the oldest protected areas on the planet, have been established by indigenous spiritualities and mainstream faiths and exist in nearly every culture and country. Their importance as cultural and biological nodes of resilience and restoration in a wider landscape cannot be underestimated, especially in this time where biocultural restoration is an urgent need for the future of not only numerous species but also the whole of humanity.
SNS protect unique ecosystems and hundreds of thousands of species of plant and animal. Some of these represent the most iconic places on the planet often encompassing whole landscapes. Many have been taken into national and government protected area systems, and many are internationally recognised. Many more are small but increasingly valuable fragments of sacred nature, representing important local biocultural assets. In many cases the SNS and its associated living culture are in urgent need of protection and support.
In October 2008 at the World Conservation Congress CSVPA hosted and facilitated a Custodians Dialogue where 12 Custodians of SNS from cultures around the world met, possibly for the first time, and shared experiences. These Custodians Declared that ‘All of Nature is Sacred’ and identified the network of SNS as ‘Planetary Acupuncture Points’ nodes of healing human nature relationships where the cultural ‘work’ of custodians is important. At this meeting the Custodians requested international support to continue meeting and bringing the ethic of their work to mainstream society.
Objectives:
CSVPA proposes to host a panel on a Building a Global Coalition to Protected Sacred Natural Sites. This will focus on both Sacred Natural Sites as Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas and Sacred Natural Sites as ‘Schools’ for the transmission of Indigenous Knowledge. We will focus on building an international coalition to network, disseminate information, and strategize for a major public education campaign aimed at policy change at both the local and international level. The programme may consist of the following components:
- Welcome prayer, cultural presentation and introductions
- Perspectives on sacred natural sites several short presentations
- Perspectives of sacred natural sites in international policy debate
- Testing the IUCN Guidelines on Sacred Natural Sites at locations across the globe
- Translation of the Core Guidelines into many languages
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This session will also answer to IUCN resolution “4.038” (see above) which:
- CALLS FOR increased scientific research into the complex relationship between biological diversity, cultural diversity and sacred natural sites;
- ENCOURAGES additional investment in public education and international networks dedicated to the conservation and protection of sacred natural sites and
- REQUESTS the conservation community to promote and participate fully in intercultural dialogue and conflict resolution with indigenous peoples, local communities and mainstream faiths to improve collaborative protection of sacred natural sites.
ISE Ethics Toolkit Workshop
Thursday May 13, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Clayoquot Field Station Classroom
Chair: Kelly Bannister (ISE, Canada)
*Please note this is a double session with a 30 min break.
List of speakers coming.
Session Description: Members of the ISE have affirmed the need for complementary materials such as a “toolkit” to facilitate effective implementation of the principles and practices that make up the ISE Code of Ethics. Funding for developing the Ethics Toolkit was committed by The Christensen Fund for 2008-2011. The Toolkit is envisioned as an internet-based resource that contains supporting material for applying the ISE Code of Ethics across diverse cultural and geographical contexts.
The ISE is actively seeking input and contributions to the Toolkit from ISE members. Some of the planned components include an on-line tutorial, a collection of case studies, template agreements, and outreach materials about the ISE Code of Ethics. Additional suggestions and contributions are welcome.
Beginning in early 2010, the ISE will host an open series of on-line discussions using tools such as email listservs, webinars, and WiserEarth, where stories, challenges, and questions can be exchanged and tangible contributions to the Toolkit components (e.g., documents, videos, examples) can be shared.
A special half-day hands-on workshop will be held during the 12th ISE Congress as a culmination of the on-line discussions and contributions, to focus on completion of one or more of the components of the Toolkit. It is anticipated that the workshop will also lead to creation of a subcommittee and a concrete strategy to complete production of the final materials by 2011.
Contributed Papers: Integrating worldviews in conservation I
Thursday May 13, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre
Chair: Stan Boychuk (Man and Biosphere Programme, Canada)
- Michael Gavin (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) "The role of ethnobiology in diagnosing conservation planning options"
- James H. Kennedy (University of North Texas, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum, USA), Ricardo Rozzi, Christopher B. Anderson et al. "The Subantarctic Biocultural Research, Education and Conservation Program: a Partnership initiative to conserve both biological and cultural diversity at the world’s southernmost forest ecosystems"
- Frederik van Oudenhoven (Bioversity International, Italy) and Pablo Eyzaguirre (Bioversity International) "Conserving Biodiversity in Agrarian and Natural Landscapes: Social-ecological Indicators for Communities"
- Douglas Nakashima (UNESCO - LINKS Programme, France) "The Place of Indigneous Mayangana Knowledge in the Management of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve"
- Ruifei Tang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Michael Gavin (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) "Traditional Ecological Knowledge Informing Resource Management: Saxoul Conservation in Inner Mongolia, China"
Recent International Developments in Ethnoornithology – application, methodology and research
Thursday May 13, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm*, Middle Beach Lodge
Co-chairs: Fleur Ng’weno (Nature Kenya - East Africa Natural History Society) and Bob Gosford (Ethnoornithology Research & Study Group, Australia)
* Note this is a double session with a 30 minute break
Speakers
- Opening with Gisele Martin and Joe Martin (Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations (Host First Nation))
- Francisca Massardo (Universidad de Magellanes, Chile) "Mapuche and Yahgan ethno-ornithology in the sub-Antarctic forests of South America"
- Bobo Kadiri Serge (University of Dschang, Cameroon) “Birds, the Banso people of Northwestern Cameroon and their culture”
- Bob Gosford (Ethnoornithology Research & Study Group, Australia) "The Australian Aboriginal bird knowledge project – the how, why, where, what and with whom”
- Dr. Myfany Turpin (Griffith University, Australia) and Veronica Dobson “The spotted nightjar calls when dingo pups are born: birds as indicators in the Arandic region of Central Australia”
BREAK
- Philip O’B. Lyver (Landcare Research, New Zealand) et al. “Flavour or Fore-Thought: Tuhoe Traditional Management Strategies for the Conservation of Kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae) in New Zealand
- Corey Bragg, David Fletcher, Sam McKechnie, Henrik Moller (University of Otago, New Zealand) et al. “Kia Mau Te Tītī Mo Ake Tōnu Atu: A cross-cultural partnership for adaptive co-management of a traditional Māori seabird harvest”
- Vanya Jha (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, India) “Lepcha Bird Nomenclature in Sikkim” [This paper is presented by Bob Gosford.]
- Mercy Njeri Muiruri (National Museums of Kenya) “Ethno-ornithology of edible birds in Kenya, the significance of quails, tsitsindu, as food and source of income among the Luhya of Western Kenya and status of affected species”
- Fleur Ng’weno (Nature Kenya – the East Africa Natural History Society) “Producing a bird checklist for Dakatcha Woodland Important Bird Area in Kenya”
Session Description: In this session we seek to illustrate some of the work being undertaken by researchers and indigenous people from across the globe with an interest in birds, people, cultures and the land and environments that they share.
The recent development of interest in ethnoornithology, particularly in its application to emerging needs, started in late 2005, when the Australiasian Ornithological Conference at Blenheim, New Zealand hosted a one-day symposium dedicated to ethnoornithological work in the Austral region. Ten papers from Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea were presented at that symposium followed by a lengthy open discussion forum.
Following that conference the web-based Ethnoornithology Research and Study Group was established in early 2006 as a clearing house and contact point for those interested in collaborative research and to allow the sharing of news and information about their activities with other workers and researchers.
In August 2006 a roundtable session was held at the International Ornithological Congress in Hamburg, Germany. Following that meeting a collection of papers will be published in early 2010 by Earthscan in a book entitled “Ethno-Ornithology: Birds and Indigenous People, Culture and Society”. This book will be the first example of ethnoornithological essays and research published in a single volume.
In 2007 and 2008 a number of presentations were given and dedicated ethnoornithological sessions and symposia conducted at international ornithological, sociological and anthropological conferences – highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of ethnoornithology and the need to communicate recent developments to other disciplines.
A highlight of this period was the “First Ethno-ornithology Meeting in Kenya” organised by Nature Kenya – the East Africa Natural History Society – with the National Museums of Kenya and Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (KENRIK) in October 2007 at the National Museum in Nairobi.
A number of themes have emerged from this recent renewed interest and concentration on ethnoornithology, including a focus on methodology, issues related to the application of indigenous bird knowledge to land and conservation measures and practice, the development of training, economic and employment opportunities from low-impact, high-value local participation in birding tourism with a cultural focus, the re-evaluation of previous ethnological research and the creation of alternative career pathways for young and mid-career practitioners in both the applied and social sciences.
These themes are repeated in the papers presented in this session for the 12th ICE.
The presentations in this session are relevant to the themes for this Congress, in particular the importance and relevance of indigenous bird knowledge to a wide variety of conservation, resource and species management efforts on lands owned or managed by indigenous peoples, or land and species that indigenous people may not have legal ownership of or responsibility for but to which they retain traditional connections, responsibilities and interests.
Several of the papers will examine methodological issues that relate to the conference themes of cross-cultural and inter-generational transfer of knowledge and more general themes. Of particular importance in this area is the consideration and development of appropriate methodologies and the conduct of research practices that ensure that local participants retain appropriate controls over project design and outcomes
Thursday, May 13
Late Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Merging Nutrition and Ethnobotanical Approaches for Improved Human and Ecosystem Health
Thursday May 13, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Tin Wis Hall
Co-Chairs: Bronwen Powell (McGill University, Canada) and Dr. Tim Johns (McGill University, Canada)
- Patrick Owen (McGill University, Canada), Teatulohi Matainaho (University of Papua New Guinea), Timothy Johns (McGill University, Canada) “Plant Food Intake is a Valid Proxy Indicator of Dietary Functionality: Introduction of the “Dietary Functionality Index” and its Relationship to Health Indicators in Papua New Guinea”
- Rory McBurney (University of Kent, UK) "Baseline Data Collection for Lesser-Known, Wild, or Locally Cultivated Food Plants"
- Patrick Maundu (Bioversity International, Kenya and Nagoya University, Japan), Yasuyuki Morimoto (Nagoya University), Yoshiaki Nishikawa (Nagoya University), Daigo Makihara (Nagoya University), Timothy Johns (McGill University, Canada), and Pablo Eyzaguirre (Bioversity International), "Potential of Agrobiodiversity as a coping strategy in the face of climate change: Lessons from rural farming communities in Kenya"
- Bronwen Powell (McGill University, Canada and Bioversity International) et al. "Relative Contribution of Agricultural and Forest Biodiversity to Diets of Smallholder farmers in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania"
- Anna Herforth (Cornell University, USA) "Traditional vegetable consumption in Central Kenya and Northern Tanzania is relation to perceived medicinal value"
Session Description: Although food plants have historically been central to the development of ethnobotany, nutrition has largely remained peripheral the field. Recently many researchers conduct studies that bridge these two disciplines. While working to conserve biodiversity they realize the importance of biodiversity for maintenance of dietary diversity and human nutrition as well as for food and nutrition security. Moreover, diet and health provide local populations with the impetus to sustainably manage their local biodiversity, and the ecosystems from whence it is obtained. An understanding of the dual role of many plants as both food and medicine helps reinforce the importance of dietary diversity and sheds light on the many factors that motivate decision-making around food consumption.
Within the discipline of nutrition there is increasing awareness that local and traditional foods offer more achievable means to improved diets in societies around the world as compared to commercial alternatives or interventions directed a reducing specific nutrient deficiencies. Inter-disciplinary ethnobotanical-nutrition research provides an essential foundation upon which to base awareness building and promotion of traditional foods and the importance of the inter-relationships between environment, biodiversity and human nutrition. Research on these subjects yields increased understanding of the adaptive nature of diversity in the face of rapid social, cultural and environmental change. One such environmental change, climate change, is an excellent example of where such multidisciplinary research may be well equipped to provide insight and potential ways forward. Additionally, the nutrition transition (or nutritional acculturation) has profound impact on the health of populations around the world that requires insight from multiple disciplines to mitigate or overcome.
Contributed Papers: Integrating worldviews in conservation II
Thursday May 13, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre
Chair: Douglas Nakashima (UNSECO - LINKS Programme, France)
- Subramanyan Ragupathy (University of Guelph, Canada) and Steven G. Newmaster (University of Guelph, Canada) "The Assemblage of Biodiversity - the Interdisciplinary Confluence of Traditional Aboriginal, Social and Natural Scientific Knowledge"
- Bas Verschuuren (EarthCollective, the Netherlands and Dhimurru, Australia) "Indigenous Perceptions of Environmental Change in Coastal Zone Management in North East Arnhem Land Australia: Examples from Fisheries Guidance and Sacred Sites Management"
- Amélia Frazão-Moreira and Cláudia Sousa (both of Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) "Sacred spaces, taboos and flagship species: the place of forests and chimpanzees in the conservation of Guinea-Bissau nature"
- Cláudia Sousa, Paula Gonçalves, and Amélia Frazão-Moreira (all of Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) "Ethnoprimatology and Conservation. The case of chimpanzee conservation in two protected areas of Guinea-Bissau"
- Chen Yi-Fong (National Hong-Dwa University, Taiwan) "Indigenous Knowledge, Political Ecology and “Natural” Disaster : The Politics of Conservation and Post-Disaster Reconstruction of Indigenous Communities in Taiwan"
- Monday May 10, 2010
- Tuesday May 11, 2010
- Wednesday May 12, 2010
- Thursday May 13, 2010
- Friday May 14, 2010