In the Western world, we need to know that there is a powerful propaganda machine influencing how we perceive Indigenous and other land-dependent peoples, how we perceive Africa and Asia, and how we perceive "nature". Listen, digest, share! x.com/talkingafrica/…

@TalkingAfrica MOgada Stephen Corry Forest Peoples Programme As ever, team work. Immensely grateful for experienced voices like Stephen and Mordecai with enough integrity to call the conservation industry out for what it is.

What is ‘conservation’ in Canada if it does not centre First Nations, Inuit, and Métis sovereignty, laws, and autonomy? And what is ‘conservation’ if it is still founded on the logics of ‘white possession’ (after Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 2015)?

Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures’ team member and Restor(y)ing Bull Trout Project Co-PI (NFRF Exploration Grant) Dr. Janelle Baker is featured in this spotlight from Athabasca University #freshwaterfishfutures

'If we swallow this lie, if we allow ourselves to forget that business can no more be "#ForNature" than a war can be "for peace", we have fallen victim to the same colonization of the mind that Fanon identified in native peoples.' orgrad.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/bla… x.com/naturedeal/sta…

US interests are really panicking over the lack of progress on #30x30 Protected Areas which require significant investment in #NatureBasedSolutions. 📢 Let's keep countering the lies and propaganda, because nothing is more powerful than the truth. 🔥x.com/scidiplomacyus…

Bundesumweltministerium SteffiLemke IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress IUCN IUCN-Rwanda More Protected Areas, as promoted at #APAC2022, will bring many more human rights abuses in the name of "saving the gorilla". #OneHealth = ecofascism x.com/ajiunit/status…

Philippe Van Damme [1/2] The European Commission plans to use Kenya's Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) model of conservation for its #NaturAfrica initiative. Read: theelephant.info/reflections/20… A model that deprives herders of grazing land and water for their livestock.

Philippe Van Damme European Commission [2/2] Learn more about @nrt_kenya's human rights abuses: oaklandinstitute.org/stealth-game-c… What we won't hear at #APAC2022: mixcloud.com/Resonance/talk…

Instead of land grabs we need #landback to Indigenous and local peoples; respect for local peoples’ autonomy and sovereignty; and for neocolonial ‘conservation’ to be held accountable for its violations of human and environmental rights globally.

#IndigenousPeoples from East Africa call on IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas to commit to “decolonise conservation” forestpeoples.org/en/press-relea… “We do not beg, we demand an end to colonial conservation” #DecolonizeConservation

“RESCIND THE DOCTRINE” As the procession came to an end for the Holy Mass at Sainte Anne de Beaupré, individuals held up a banner in front of the pulpit for all to see.

Fiona Apple has a story for you. And it’s incredible. Asked me to share. She's become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil rights lawsuit. Then came the retaliation. Shut off her access to court. A video story in 8 parts:

Join us Nov. 16 @ 6pm for 2022 LARKIN LECTURE. Speaker is Dr. Dr Fish Philosopher Todd 🐟 🌱 (an archive) from CU Sociology & Anthropology Carleton University. Critical Freshwater Fish Futures: using interdisciplinary & arts-based research approaches to engage relationships between #Indigenous sovereignty & #freshwater #fish well-being

Hooked for life! #SSHRC CRC Dr Fish Philosopher Todd 🐟 🌱 (an archive)’s mission to use past and present Indigenous knowledges to improve the future of freshwater fish. Simon Fraser University Read the full story: sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/society-societ… 📸: Sandra Thrasher

Really excited about this story that highlights the wonderful folks I work with in the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures FreshwaterFishFutures ☺️🐟🌊 You can also check out our Bull Trout Show: thebulltroutshow.buzzsprout.com