Framing co‐productive conservation in partnership with Arctic Indigenous peoples

A new framework for co-productive conservation, developed in partnership with Arctic Indigenous peoples, offers a transformative approach to biodiversity protection. This model integrates Indigenous knowledge, rights, and priorities into conservation efforts through six iterative processes: co-planning, co-prioritizing, co-learning, co-managing, co-delivering, and co-assessing. Unlike traditional approaches that often treat Indigenous participation as an ethical requirement, this framework positions it as a means to broaden the evidence base and embed conservation within Indigenous contexts. By focusing on human dimensions, it aims to foster culturally relevant, ethically conscious, and fully knowledge-based solutions to biodiversity challenges in the Arctic, where climate change and loss of biodiversity are most pronounced.

Buschman, V. Q. (2022). Framing co‐productive conservation in partnership with Arctic Indigenous peoples. Conservation Biology, 36(6). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13972