Science based Conservation: Difference between revisions

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You have found a "Wrecksite". Here and there, "shipwrecks" will manifest themselves. They gesture to the apparatuses that produce conditions under which some phenomena can exists within polar bear monitoring, my research and this knowledge-land-scape- and others cannot. Different shipwrecks gesture to different possibilities and futurities.

In this shipwreck you find the International Polar Bear conservation Agreement. It states that polar bear management should be conducted ‘in accordance with sound conservation practices based on the best available scientific data available’ ^[1]

The Gjoa Haven HTA complains of not being heard, around the impacts of the moratorium.

Maybe you can find out something more about the process of how their knowledge on polar bears was included in the decision making processes around the McClintock Channel PBMU moratorium of 2001. And related: also about Gjoa Haven's expectations in having their experiences recorded?

"Return to Cut 1" and call the Gjoa Haven HTA to gain some more information and see what the board expects from an academic article around their experiences.

↑ Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.

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[1] Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.

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 You have found a "Wrecksite". Here and there, "shipwrecks" will manifest themselves. They gesture to the apparatuses that produce conditions under which some phenomena can exists within polar bear monitoring, my research and this knowledge-land-scape- and others cannot. Different shipwrecks gesture to different possibilities and futurities.
-This one allows you to think with the im/possibilities that western science produces in polar bear conservation.
+In this shipwreck you find the ''International Polar Bear conservation Agreement.'' It states that polar bear management should be conducted ‘in accordance with sound conservation practices based on the best available scientific data available’ <ref>Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.</ref>
-Even in Nunavut, where Nunavut Land Claims Agreement mandates the meaningful inclusion of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit Knowledge), ‘data’ remains the widely accepted epistemological unit through which the polar bear co-management process is executed.
-As the ''International Polar Bear conservation Agreement'' states, polar bear management is conducted ‘in accordance with sound conservation practices based on the best available scientific data available’ <ref>Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.</ref>. Within such a (western formulated) paradigm, the world can be reduced to "data": quantifiable bits of information that can be measured, interpreted, described, and represented.
-Such a reductionist approach to conservation management, dominated by survey data that is collected by the Government of Nunavut through large scale polar bear monitoring surveys, every 10 years, stands in stark contrast with many Indigenous cosmologies that consider "conservation" and "monitoring" to be inseparable from the complex relations and practices that connect humans with wildlife. Such paradigms are resistant to the reductionism of ‘data’<ref>Østern, T. P., Jusslin, S., Nødtvedt Knudsen, K., Maapalo, P., & Bjørkøy, I. (2023). A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry. Qualitative research, 23(2), 272-289.</ref>. Bears can not be "managed" from such a perspective, and "Truth" can not be claimed beyond its particular relational contexts.
-When these differences are not taken into account when designing knowledge co-production strategies, they can lead to liberal interpretations of ‘data’ as an epistemologically neutral concept that can be stretched to fit all kinds of knowledges. Instead of being an inclusive container, the classic concept of "data"- produced within the apparatus of science-based conservation- always materializes as an ontologically exclusive category, limited to the anthropocentric reductionism of western sciences.
+<div class="next_choice"> The Gjoa Haven HTA complains of not being heard, around the impacts of the moratorium.
-<div class="next_choice"> After exploring this Wrecksite you suspect that the knowledge people in Gjoa Haven might have on polar bears, did not play a meaningful role in the decisions around the McClintock Channel PBMU moratorium on polar bear hunting when it was set in 2001.
+Maybe you can find out something more about the process of how their knowledge on polar bears was included in the decision making processes around the McClintock Channel PBMU moratorium of 2001. And related: also about Gjoa Haven's expectations in having their experiences recorded?
-'''"Return to Cut 1"''' and call the Gjoa Haven HTA to gain some more information and see what the board expects from an academic article around their experiences. </span>
+'''"Return to Cut 1"''' and call the Gjoa Haven HTA to gain some more information and see what the board expects from an academic article around their experiences.</div>
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+<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title=" Voices_of_Thunder " data-section-id="7" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices of Thunder#Ongoing Conversations|Return to Cut 1: Call Gjoa Haven]]</span>