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Workshop

Public-Private Sector

WK 2 - Building a Cooperative Conservation Collaborative: Diverse People Uniting for Diversity

Monday, August 7, 2023
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM PDT
Location: 256
Session Description: When teaching about population ecology a favorite topic is diversity is our strength. That is true in so many ways. Diversity can strengthen our conservation efforts by partnering with people of different ethnic, religious, cultural, political, gender, socioeconomic, educational backgrounds. Employment sectors bring another source of strength and diversity; involving military, government (federal, state and local), academia (community college, colleges and universities), Non-Profit Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, Community & citizen groups can work together despite differing primary missions for the good of all the partners and ultimately our ecosystem/species of interest. This workshop explores how one can identify and successfully build diverse partnerships for cooperative conservation.

This will be an active workshop and attendees are encouraged to bring smart phones/laptops to participate in the activities facilitated by workshop leaders.

The goals of this workshop are:


  • Identifying potential local/state/federal government, community, educational, and citizen group partners to increase the diversity of perspectives working on your project.

  • Developing a template email to reach out to and connect with those potential partners

  • Determining the pertinent roles for the collaborators to enhance and ensure success of the project

  • Creating a timeline for project benchmarks going from inception to commitment by appropriate partners

The workshop will include access to a google-drive with helpful documents and templates that will be used during the workshop, and will provide support to attendees after the workshop. Small-group work and report-outs will foster meaningful discussions on future plans and challenges as attendees work to brainstorm and develop their project, partnerships, benchmarks, timeline and workshop documents. The workshop leaders will assist participants in achieving the workshop goals and having a healthy start on a collaborative concept prior to leaving. We will be available after the workshop to follow-up and offer support as participant collaborations move forward from the goals accomplished in the workshop.

Biodiversity leads to strength and resiliency in an ecosystem. Diversity in cooperative conservation partnerships strengthens the team working to preserve that ecosystem.