Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says The first tribally hosted World Wilderness Congress that convened the last week of August, 2024, had an ambitious agenda—placing Indigenous knowledge at the center of global resolutions to protect bio...

"Humanity stands at a crossroads & must come together to realise dramatically different & supportive relationships with one another, the Earth, & all life on the planet, if we are to surmount cascading ecological & social crises now underway."

#Wild12
www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

Taken a couple of nights ago, but honoured to be asked to present friend and colleague of some 25 years Alan Watson with the Fred M. Packard International Parks Merit Award from IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas at #WILD12
(photos: Aiita Joshua Apamaku)

President Biden Proclaims September National Wilderness M... President Biden proclaims September national wilderness m...

@POTUS has declared September as the month of wilderness. Starts tomorrow! #WILD12 www.leopold.wilderness.net/highlights/stories/news-...

Closing ceremony here at #WILD12 @SoGLeeds @UniversityLeeds

“Rewilding: the musical” with Richard “Frog” Bozung and Dori Bozung. Was this the best bit of #WILD12? Winding down with improvised audience participation after a full-on week. Thanks both!
https://dickbozung.wordpress.com/artist-profile/

Getting some great feedback and input to developing @CemRtg rewilding guidelines at #WILD12

Presenting work on 30x30 targets for Europe at #WILD12 using our new European wilderness quality index 2.0 with Yuriy Strus
@SoGLeeds @UniversityLeeds @FZS_Frankfurt

Busy week at #WILD12 presenting research papers, posters and running round table discussions on rewilding and wilderness.
Poster on our Iceland wilderness map with @snaebjossi
@SoGLeeds @UniversityLeeds

Interesting paper from Katherine Zeller et al presented at #WILD12 shows that noise from recreational use negatively impacts on wildlife https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.030 with implications for #R2R

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says – Deceleration “Either we face a lot of chaos, global disasters, tears from our relatives’ eyes … or we come together unite as people of the world,” Arvol Looking Horse said.  The first tribally hosted World Wildern...

“Either we face a lot of chaos, global disasters, tears from our relatives’ eyes … or we come together [and] unite as people of the world,” Arvol Looking Horse said.

#climate #indigenous #biodiversity #wild12

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On my way to #WILD12 #12thWorldWildernessCongress with good friend and mentor Alan Watson. Riding from Missoula, Montana to Rapid City, South Dakota. @SoGLeeds on tour.

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Help send Deceleration to #WILD12. Learn more about the significance of this first tribally hosted World Wilderness Congress and why we felt called to attend.
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Wolakota Code - WILD12 The premise of the Lakota society is based on respect or Waohola. Lakota traditional ways inform us that the following are good practices if one seeks to embody respect.

On manners, respect and reservedness. wild.org/wild12/wolak...

I'd been so keen to attend #WILD12 (12th World Wilderness Conference) for months - co-organized by good people including friends, Kuuyux Merculieff of the @Global Center for Indigenous Leadership&Lifeways+Amy Lewis of WILD Foundation.