Speaker
Moderator
Speaker

Dr.
Erika Cuellar Soto
Award Winning Conservation Biologist, Educator, Author and National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Spotlight the transformative parabiologist training model, a grassroots conservation approach that empowers Indigenous and local communities to become stewards of their own ecosystems, addressing how placing knowledge and tools in the hands of local people leads to more effective, ethical, and sustainable conservation outcomes — and how this model challenges traditional, top-down conservation frameworks to pave the way for climate justice and decolonised environmental action.