Envisioning and Catalyzing the Indigenous-led Conservation Economy - A Publication of the RAD (Restore, Assert and Defend) Network.

The Leadership Spirit, ceremony, and ethical space, and Group has been guiding the clarification of pursued in alignment with the path that our network’s purpose, and understand it has been walked by the Indigenous Circle to be not to lead, but to uplift and support of Experts (ICE) and the Conservation the leadership that exists in Indigenous through Reconciliation Partnership. [...] The CRP is now in its final years, and is The CRP is a seven-year program hosted working to establish and contribute to by the IISAAK OLAM Foundation, the three legacy projects: The IPCA Knowledge Indigenous Leadership Initiative, and Basket, the IPCA Alliance/Network, and the University of Guelph that brings Regional IPCA Centres of Innovation. [...] Nations and governments with the The CRP’s main goal is to help heal the development and implementation of relationships between humans and the Indigenous Protected and Conserve planet by supporting the Indigenous-led Areas (IPCAs).   conservation movement. [...] This type of thinking can perpetuate the commodification of nature and Indigenous The responsibilities carried by Indigenous knowledge, reducing both the natural Peoples—to ancestors, to territory, to world and cultural practices to that of specific species, and to the wellbeing financial assets to be bought and sold. [...] and nurturance of future generations Subsequently, carbon has been associated are the foundation of legal orders with the possibility of undermining and systems which have sustained Indigenous rights and sovereignty, and relationships of integrity, persistence, and the broader goals of conservation and ingenuity for centuries.