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influence the global agenda more effectively? As a privileged, senior conservationist from a wealthy country, there are a few things that I can do more of, and better, this year:
1) However tempting it is to answer requests to give an interview or offer a view to the media, or take up an appointment, senior Northern conservationists need to try harder to redirect requests to others whose voices are less heard. A concern may be that the journalists asking for contributions may not take these recommen- dations but simply move on to another privileged per- son. Rather than saying ‘better me, as I’m enlightened, than the other,whomay not be’,we needto stand strong and insist that others have access to the platforms they deserve.
2) I will continue to try to redirect my research towards tacklingmy country’s own culpability for environmental damage overseas (e.g. through its supply chains), and making contributions closer to home, to help improve the environmental sustainability of my own institution and country. As I have spent my professional life work- ing on issues about resource use in rural areas of poor countries, this will be a step into the unknown, but if everyone in the Global North redirected more of their energies towards challenging their own institutions and governments, systemic change might be more likely. There is still of course value in international collabora- tions to support colleagues who are working around the world to tackle problems in their own countries, but these need to be both initiated and led locally.
3) All of us need to be more generous and accepting of the contributions and viewpoints of others, and recognize that a rainbow of approaches is needed, dependent on scale, location and circumstances. Although we have a long way to go in improving the diversity of conserva- tion (both in terms of who is involved and in terms of the approaches we use), it is important to start to make progress in the right direction, recognizing that we can- not solve our deep-rooted problems instantly (Ngwenya et al., 2020).
It is a challenge to balance pushing for the ambitious
and radical action the planet needs with working within the current system to shift it (e.g. working with financial insti- tutions to redirect their investments while also promoting Indigenous and local voices in the face of land conversion). We need to argue passionately for biodiversity for its own sake, as well as recognizing its fundamental role in sustain- ing human existence. Not everyone can, or even should, cover the whole range of philosophical positions or
conservation approaches in their own work. But ifwe respect each other’s perspectives and intentionsmore, and recognize that conservation is, and should be, a broad church,maybewe will make more progress in
2021.Conservationneeds,more than ever, to be both united and diverse.
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