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BIPOC Led Conservation
Apply to be a facilitator today!
Wild Diversity’s BIPOC Conservation Program is embarking on its second year. This is a community driven effort that calls BIPOC working in conservation and the environmental movement to come together, connect, vision, and initiate the change we want to see in this work!
We are currently looking for co-facilitators to collaborate with and help lead our monthly community meetings. If you are a BIPOC person working in conservation and have skill sharing, information sharing, or perspective you want to share in a peer to peer, collaborative environment, please let us know! Facilitation opportunities are paid, as we do not believe in extracting knowledge or labor from our community for free. We are also looking to empower emerging leaders and give them opportunities to guide us in their areas of interest and expertise with this work.
Calling all BIPOC Conservation Leaders
Join our 2023 BIPOC Leadership Cohort
Our leadership cohort is currently accepting applications! If you are interested in a role shaping our conservation initiative and strategizing, apply today! Learn more about this paid opportunity here.
Wild Diversity is looking for 3-5 BIPOC professionals working in the land conservation and environmental stewardship fields to join our leadership work group. The Leadership Cohort will be crafting a vision and initiative strategy for Wild Diversity's BIPOC Conservation Program, an effort that centers BIPOC voices and leadership.
BIPOC Conservation
We Dream of a BIPOC-led Conservation Movement. Join Our Community:
Join Wild Diversity's Conservation Initiative
As we spend time outdoors, we connect deeper to land, water, earth, and air. We learn how to observe the movement of a river, the sounds and habitat of an animal species, or imagine the story of an old growth forest we immerse in.
As our connections to nature become more integral parts of our identities and lives, realizing our responsibility and relationship to the environment becomes just as crucial. The intersection of recreation and conservation is very present in our work at Wild Diversity and we are ready to re-envision a conservation movement that has the BIPOC communities visions, dreams, and ideas at the front and center of it.
Join us on the last Thursday each month for a virtual conservation community meeting, where we will begin to connect with one another, learn how to support one another working in conservation, and collaborate on a community-led vision that has our needs and ideas at the center.
“Wild Diversity sees BIPOC Conservation as an emerging practice of Black, Indigenous, People of Color leading conservation work, organizations, projects strategies, and re-shaping narratives or creating new ones. This is inclusive of but not exclusive to: people working in policy, advocacy, funding, land management, agriculture, food systems, climate work, natural resource management, stewardship, community engagement, environmental justice, wildlife habitat, forestry, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), water and land conservation, clean energy, and ecological enhancement ”
— Dez Ramirez, Previous BIPOC Conservation Program Director
