Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Embodying Biodiversity, Re-storying Conservation: Tending in Times of Unraveling

With Terese Gagnon, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The vast majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale initiatives but by ordinary people who cultivate sensory-motivated, place-based bonds with specific plants. This talk delves into the power of everyday forms of biodiversity conservation, motivated by sensory and embodied engagement with plants.

Acknowledging the monumental role of everyday champions in tending biodiversity, Gagnon discusses how this caretaking is crucial to countering unfolding ecological harm and global injustice stemming from colonial violence and racial capitalism.

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