[ERA Webinar]: Fostering the Jugalbandi of People and Nature – Reflections from Central India скачать в хорошем качестве

[ERA Webinar]: Fostering the Jugalbandi of People and Nature – Reflections from Central India

Dr Amrita Neelakantan summarises the decade long story of building the Network for Conserving Central India (NCCI). From a handful of tiger conservationists navigating the impact of National Highway 7 in Kanha-Pench, NCCI has grown into a community of researchers, organisations, and local leaders working across central India. Today, their network works to foster the ‘jugalbandi’, or interplay, between people’s livelihoods and ecological integrity by linking diverse knowledge systems, mediating the tension between conflicting goals and creating opportunities for joint action. 00:00:01 – Some context 00:01:39 – Introducing Dr Amrita Neelakantan 00:03:43 – Amrita starts her presentation 00:05:13 – The story of NCCI 00:06:16 – Initial days at NCCI 00:10:00 – Baking collaboration into the network 00:11:42 – Should a network become an organisation? 00:14:00 – People & Nature: A duet of conflict and harmony 00:15:30 – Amrita’s three moments that defined “Jugalbandi” at NCCI 00:18:39 – It’s all the same “within” a national park and “outside” a national park 00:19:22 – The structure of NCCI 00:20:40 – The four programs at NCCI 00:21:08 – NCCI small grants: Supporting small projects, experiments and pilots 00:23:51 – Designing spaces that are meaningful to people 00:24:33 – Brokering collaboration: Listening to every single person involved 00:28:05 – Bagh Chaal: Sci-Comms for Tiger Connectivity 00:29:43 – Bagh Chaal: From challenges to tangible output 00:31:27 – [Picture]: Humans, Tigers and connectivity in Central India 00:32:12 – [Video]: Bagh Chaal as a whatsapp forward 00:34:26 – Earning trust 00:35:06 – NCCI’s Agrodiversity Roundtable 00:36:26 – Conservation cannot come at the expense of livelihoods 00:40:06 – The role of feedback 00:41:13 – From indoor presentations to gathering at local mills and bakeries 00:42:37 – Research isn’t about dictating things to communities on ground 00:43:30 – Things that worked and didn’t work for NCCI 00:46:01 – NCCI’s learnings on science communication 00:48:04 – We still have lunch with people we disagree with! Q-A 00:51:31 – How to contact Amrita and the NCCI 00:52:27 – On local perceptions of NCCI’s interventions 00:54:54 – Work opportunities at NCCI 00:55:55 – On being a partner to the local communities 00:57:46 – Why diversified portfolios of livelihoods are important 00:59:56 – How ethical is it to relocate people for Tiger corridors? 01:02:32 – On data sharing and fostering collaboration between conflicting interests