Conference Agenda

Supporting biocultural connections in conservation translocations

Priscilla Wehi¹, Finley Johnson², Rachael Shaw²

¹University of Otago, New Zealand; ²Victoria University of Wellington

Assessing climate change impacts on Congo Basin biodiversity from a local ecological knowledge perspective

Milena Marie Beekmann¹, Carlo Rondinini¹, Sandrine Gallois², Célie Moungouya Moukassa³

¹La Sapienza University, Italy; ²Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; ³Marien Ngouabi Institute of Agronomy and Forestry Sciences, Congo

Returning and restoring biodiversity: guidance on human dimensions

Adriana Consorte-McCrea^1,2, Shekhar Kolipaka^3,1, Jacob Owens^4,5,1, Carlos Ruiz-Miranda^6,1, Sian Waters^7,1

¹IUCN/SSC CTSG Human Wildlife Interactions Working Group; ²Academy for Sustainable Futures, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK,; ³Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; ⁴Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles, United States; ⁵Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Chengdu, China; ⁶Laboratory of Environmental Sciences, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ⁷Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Sensemaking and abductive reasoning for transformative biodiversity conservation

Gonzalo Cortes-Capano¹, Jacqueline Loos², Anna Hausmann³, Teea Kortetmäki¹

¹Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland.; ²Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna University, Wien, Austria; ³Department of Biological and Environmental Science, School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland