Rooted in indigenous knowledge.
Indigenous communities have proved they are capable and effective conservators of biological diversity. But many remain vulnerable and poorly represented.
DecisionSeed® provides the infrastructure necessary to channel their wisdom into conservation.
Whilst objectivism - the standard model underpinning most government policy-making - approaches knowledge of other life forms and entities like forests, mountains and rivers by delimiting and bracketing-off subjectivity, ’indigenous perspectivist’ ways of knowing nature seek to know other life forms by extending subjectivity to see from their perspective.
So, to know a mountain, try to 'think like a mountain' and see from its point of view.
‘No organism can become itself without the assistance of other species.’
— Anna Tsing 2013.
We offer a bridge.
Aligned with indigenous perspectivism, DecisionSeed® workshops help participants feel into the values of human and non-human stakeholders, including forests, wildlife, sacred places and local deities, and operationalise those values in the collective governance of protected areas.
