North American Conservation Congress | June 23 - 28

Reminder: Early bird registration ends April 12: Register here

Highlighted contributions sponsored by IBioS

Plenary: Critical Ecosystems vs Critical Minerals? Co-Organized by the UBC Centre for Climate Justice & the Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory| June 25, 2024

Critical minerals development is accelerating rapidly in many countries around the world. However, in many places this process is accelerating at a rate that does not allow for a meaningful conversation on the risks, negative impacts, and potential benefits to communities and biodiversity. We will hear from leading researchers and movement leaders on the tensions that are emerging between climate and biodiversity in critical minerals mining, and under what conditions critical minerals can be produced in ways that safeguard biodiversity and the rights of communities while meeting the needs for essential climate solutions.

Organizers: Jessica Dempsey, Hannah Wittman, Claire Kremen

Below: Photo by Matthew de Livera on Unsplash

Organized Networking Session: Going beyond the academy - how can we make our science count for conservation? | Date: TBD

We will present the “IBioS experiment” – its opportunities and challenges -- and invite workshop participants to share their experiences at their home universities. We hope to form a network with other groups elsewhere within academia that are working to make their science count to resolve combined problems of biodiversity loss and social inequity.

Organizers: Claire Kremen, Don Carruthers den Hoed, Hannah Wittman

Below: Photo by Emma Jarek-Simard

Stewarding the Mekong: Celebrations for Life and Liberation Art Exhibition | June 26, 2024, 1 - 3:30 pm

The art exhibition honours the perseverance of life amid ecological destruction and cultural erasure. Traditional lifeways and resistance to large-scale development projects have always been entwined with efforts to steward nature and protect the sources of life that make possible biological and cultural diversity. At the confluence of Mae Nam Khong (Mekong) and Salish Waters, the panel of Indigenous water protectors and Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars will reflect on the artwork and share their experiences working toward decolonial futures.

Organizer: Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban | Project Advisors: Juliet Lu, Naomi Schwartz

Below: Acrylic paintings on reclaimed wood (2009) by Fhakleum Surilub

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April 12 IBioS Conversation: Last Event of the Term
 

12 - 1:30 PM | IBioS Office (#358, 2259 Lower Mail Mall

Agenda:

• Briefly review the accomplishements of IBioS in the past academic year
• IBioS Member feedback
• Mingle and enjoy lunch!