Ramson Karmushu To Speak At 12th World Wilderness Congress In August

The organizers and hosts of the 12th World Wilderness Congress are excited to announce that Ramson Karmushu will speak at the Congress!

Ramson has a keen interest in documenting indigenous traditional knowledge that supports coexistence with nature and biodiversity conservation for years. Ramson Karmushu is a founder of an organization known as MIKIA. MIKIA is an indigenous Maasai word meaning ‘don’t take me away’. The name basically, is the Indigenous peoples’ knowledge talking to the Indigenous peoples’ elders to leave it (inherited knowledge) behind to future generations. Indigenous peoples’ knowledge is written in peoples’ brains, indigenous peoples’ libraries, where MIKIA envisages to putting efforts to document, preserve, and regenerate it. Ramson is a member of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) and a co-lead of the Resource Mobilization Committee as well as one of the IIFB’s key negotiators in the Convention on Biological Diversity discussions. Ramson has been recently nominated by the Secretariat of the CBD as a member of the Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilization (ACRM) for the recently adopted Kunming Montreal-Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF).

Before his current position as the director and found of MIKIA, Ramson has over ten years working experience. Ramson last engagement at the Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT) as the Head of the Research Program for eight years, coordinated research activities for the organization as well as collaborating with academic institutions at the National and international levels, individual researchers and other partners. Ramson supports a community action research model that involves local communities at all levels from designing, implementing, and participatory data elicitation. Ramson has a keen interest in documenting indigenous traditional knowledge that is important in the conservation of nature and biodiversity. Ramson envisages a secured future where Indigenous Traditional Knowledge is recognized and used, Cultural diversity is respected and promoted and IPLC tenure rights and natural resources are protected.

The 12th World Wilderness Congress (WILD12) is a global forum to coordinate and mobilize the protection of Earth’s remaining wilderness and wild places. It convenes thousands of delegates from around the world approximately every 4 years to seek and agree upon new actions and principles in the stewardship of Earth. WILD12 is hosted by the Oceti Sakowin on behalf of the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council, and will place a special emphasis on reinterpreting wilderness through Indigenous perspectives.

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