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Sunday, July 26, 2026

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Track 2
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Track 5
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel
Track 1
Track 2
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 3
Track 4
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 5
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 1
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 2
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 3
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 4
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Track 5
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM Field Trip - Yidinji Explorer Tour with Rainforest to Bush Cultural Experiences
AUD$98 per person. INCLUSIONS: - Return coach transfers from Pullman Cairns International Hotel - Morning Tea - Local Indigenous guide
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park
AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Held at Daintree's Pool-deck, Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Monday, July 27, 2026

Kuranda Ballroom
Mossman Ballroom
Tully 1
Tully 2
Tully 3
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Recognition of Indigenous self-determination and prior rights in science research governance
Theme: Intellectual Property
Facilitator: Jim Walker
Panelists: Helen Ross and Cathy Robinson 		90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ethical Digital Space for Ethnobiology: Stories of Archives, AI, and Awareness with ADIE
Theme: Ethics
Facilitators: Felice Wyndham and Morgan Ruelle 		90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Databases and First Nations Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Theme: Database
Facilitator: Professor Natalie Stoianoff 		90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Prioritising Indigenous Knowledge for climate resilience: Live & Learn’s Indigenous Knowledge Leadership Programme
Facilitator: Mr Nick Mattiske 		90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Rooted in Islands, Connected Across Oceans: Building Networks to Support Biocultural Research in the Pacific
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Intellectual Property
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Ethics
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants
CHAIR: Marlize Bekker
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers (2)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Edible and Medicinal Plants) - Traditional Custodian experiences of co-led project: ‘A deadly solution: towards an Indigenous-led bushfoods industry’
Chaired by Dale Chapman
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Indigenous-led mapping for rematriation: from Indigenous Communities to the world Coal Mining in The Canadian Rocky Mountains: Practicing Caretaking Through Iyethka Traditional Protocol A co-research partnership moving towards commercial development of the Uncha plant from Kuuku I’yu homelands Biocultural Monitoring after a Cultural Burn at Dharriwaa (Narran Lake Nature Reserve) in NSW, Australia Introduction to the project
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM A waka recovered - data sovereignty and traditional Moriori knowledge in an archaeological investigation Indigenous-led/co-designed Traditional Knowledge and biodiversity assessments for fungi and orchids in Kakadu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicinal Plant Hub Embodied Pathways: Indigenous Hunting and Ecological Aesthetics in Southern Taiwan’s Central Highlands Yumbangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC)
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Recording Indigenous Ecological Knowledge – how a consent process contributes to CAREful sharing. Basecamp Research: Setting a Benchmark for Ethical Biodiscovery Alaskan Aesthetics of Abundance: Fishing, Foraging, and Festivals for Security and Strength during Dark Times Dingoes on Nyangumarta Country: A Two-Way Science Approach to research and management Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Re-centering Indigenous Sovereignty in Herbarium Practice: An Indigenous-led Consent Pathway from Kakadu National Park Ethics: how and for whom, an Indigenous Perspective Nature’s Arsenal Against Liver Cancer: Phytochemicals in HCC Therapy Relational ontologies and weaving of knowledge to cope with climate change in Melanesia? Batavia Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Co-Creating Fair Access and Benefit Sharing: Nepal’s Twenty-five Year Journey Toward Equitable ABS Governance The Price of Silence: How Excluding Indigenous Knowledge Undermines Conservation Outcomes and Local Well-Being An Emerging Australian Native Species: Colourimetric, Bioactive, Metabolomic, and Pharmacokinetic investigations Climate Change and Health Sector Response in Nepal: Analyzing Policy Gaps The project’s governance and ethics systems
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM VANISHING VOICES: TRIBAL YOUTH AND THE DECLINE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN RAJASTHAN Fire, Food, Knowledge: Linking Changing Fire Regimes to Wild Edible Plant Diversity and Cultural Resilience in South India Tracking Change Together: Emerging Themes on Caribou Health and Environment through Indigenous Science
Session Summary and Discussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Agriculture / Industries
CHAIR: Susanne Schmidt
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Education and Database
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION: Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones? (Convened by Vitor Renck) ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (3)
CHAIR: Phurpa Wangchuk
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two Way Science Rangers and Researchers
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Ethnobotany of vegetatively propagated crops in east and west Africa and changes in living memory Agrobiodiversity and Climate Adaptation in the Philippines’ School Gardens: Case Study of Lighthouse Schools Cavite Session introduction and opening remarks Anti-inflammatory drug lead molecules from Australian Wet Tropics montane plant Three-Eyed Seeing: Being the Voice for Our Relations
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM A Blockchain solution to Traditional Ownership Security and Product Provenance in the Australian Bushfood Industry Embedding Ecological Values in Stories and Grammar Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones? Characterization of Phenolic Metabolites and Enzyme Activities During Growth Stages of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) Safeguarding the Torres Straits ecosystem values through environmental DNA monitoring
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM A rich living world beneath our feet: Exploring the ethnoecology of soils In honour of Aboriginal Teachers and Dreams: Reflections from 40 years as an Australian ethnoecologist Integrating Indigenous wisdom to shape institutional practices and marine governance Emotions through Foraging Plants and the Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge in the Kerama Islands, Japan Over the Generations - Wreck Bay yarns for plants and animals
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Pili kau, pili ho‘oilo: Plant–plant facilitation in Indigenous Hawaiian agroforest restoration Entanglement and Contagion: Ecological Knowledge, Cultural Narratives, and the Disappearance of Bats from New England Ethnobotanical and medicinal uses of Calotropis procera based on digital documentation Indigenous Cultural Use and Population Genetics of Dioscorea transversa: Setting the Stage for Biocultural Restoration
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM DISCUSSION: Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones?
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Integrating technology and indigenous biocultural knowledge for sustainable cultivation and cultural revitalisation of Cyperus textilis Plural valuation of Andean Camelids, llamas and vicuñas by the Indigenous Council, Jujuy, NW Argentina Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Medicinal Plant Diversity of Swat Pakistan: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Therapeutic Innovations How does variation in resource availability influence the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge?
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Management of Critical Minerals and Hydrogen in Eastern DRC Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for intercontinental TEK transfer Plant Use in the Channel Country: Community-led Ethnobotany on Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland Ethno-medicinal plants used in primary healthcare by the natives of Kasha Pat, North-West Himalaya
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Reimagining biology through a microbiome Āhuatanga (cultural characterization); conservation of traditional kūmara (sweetpotato) and taewa (Māori potato) varieties in Aotearoa Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Co-Development of a Seasonal Calendar in South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Biocultural Adaption to Climate Change 30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - The Ogiek Knowledge On Medicinal Plants
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Pilina Inoa: Re-Defining Conservation in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Provenance, Authentication, and Functional Standardisation of Pittosporum angustifolium (Gumbi Gumbi) Indigenous Science in Ecological Sustainability: How Malawian Indigenous communities have contributed to biodiversity conservation
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
ISE Board Meeting
Kuranda Ballroom
Mossman Ballroom
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Recognition of Indigenous self-determination and prior rights in science research governance
Theme: Intellectual Property
Facilitator: Jim Walker
Panelists: Helen Ross and Cathy Robinson 		90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ethical Digital Space for Ethnobiology: Stories of Archives, AI, and Awareness with ADIE
Theme: Ethics
Facilitators: Felice Wyndham and Morgan Ruelle
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Intellectual Property
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Ethics
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Indigenous-led mapping for rematriation: from Indigenous Communities to the world Coal Mining in The Canadian Rocky Mountains: Practicing Caretaking Through Iyethka Traditional Protocol
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM A waka recovered - data sovereignty and traditional Moriori knowledge in an archaeological investigation Indigenous-led/co-designed Traditional Knowledge and biodiversity assessments for fungi and orchids in Kakadu
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Recording Indigenous Ecological Knowledge – how a consent process contributes to CAREful sharing. Basecamp Research: Setting a Benchmark for Ethical Biodiscovery
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Re-centering Indigenous Sovereignty in Herbarium Practice: An Indigenous-led Consent Pathway from Kakadu National Park Ethics: how and for whom, an Indigenous Perspective
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Co-Creating Fair Access and Benefit Sharing: Nepal’s Twenty-five Year Journey Toward Equitable ABS Governance The Price of Silence: How Excluding Indigenous Knowledge Undermines Conservation Outcomes and Local Well-Being
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM VANISHING VOICES: TRIBAL YOUTH AND THE DECLINE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN RAJASTHAN
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Agriculture / Industries
CHAIR: Susanne Schmidt
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Education and Database
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Ethnobotany of vegetatively propagated crops in east and west Africa and changes in living memory Agrobiodiversity and Climate Adaptation in the Philippines’ School Gardens: Case Study of Lighthouse Schools Cavite
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM A Blockchain solution to Traditional Ownership Security and Product Provenance in the Australian Bushfood Industry Embedding Ecological Values in Stories and Grammar
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM A rich living world beneath our feet: Exploring the ethnoecology of soils In honour of Aboriginal Teachers and Dreams: Reflections from 40 years as an Australian ethnoecologist
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Pili kau, pili ho‘oilo: Plant–plant facilitation in Indigenous Hawaiian agroforest restoration Entanglement and Contagion: Ecological Knowledge, Cultural Narratives, and the Disappearance of Bats from New England
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Integrating technology and indigenous biocultural knowledge for sustainable cultivation and cultural revitalisation of Cyperus textilis Plural valuation of Andean Camelids, llamas and vicuñas by the Indigenous Council, Jujuy, NW Argentina
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Management of Critical Minerals and Hydrogen in Eastern DRC Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for intercontinental TEK transfer
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Reimagining biology through a microbiome
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Biocultural Adaption to Climate Change
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Pilina Inoa: Re-Defining Conservation in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Tully 1
Tully 2
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Databases and First Nations Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Theme: Database
Facilitator: Professor Natalie Stoianoff 		90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Prioritising Indigenous Knowledge for climate resilience: Live & Learn’s Indigenous Knowledge Leadership Programme
Facilitator: Mr Nick Mattiske
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants
CHAIR: Marlize Bekker
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers (2)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM A co-research partnership moving towards commercial development of the Uncha plant from Kuuku I’yu homelands Biocultural Monitoring after a Cultural Burn at Dharriwaa (Narran Lake Nature Reserve) in NSW, Australia
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicinal Plant Hub Embodied Pathways: Indigenous Hunting and Ecological Aesthetics in Southern Taiwan’s Central Highlands
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Alaskan Aesthetics of Abundance: Fishing, Foraging, and Festivals for Security and Strength during Dark Times Dingoes on Nyangumarta Country: A Two-Way Science Approach to research and management
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Nature’s Arsenal Against Liver Cancer: Phytochemicals in HCC Therapy Relational ontologies and weaving of knowledge to cope with climate change in Melanesia?
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM An Emerging Australian Native Species: Colourimetric, Bioactive, Metabolomic, and Pharmacokinetic investigations Climate Change and Health Sector Response in Nepal: Analyzing Policy Gaps
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Fire, Food, Knowledge: Linking Changing Fire Regimes to Wild Edible Plant Diversity and Cultural Resilience in South India Tracking Change Together: Emerging Themes on Caribou Health and Environment through Indigenous Science
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION: Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones? (Convened by Vitor Renck) ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (3)
CHAIR: Phurpa Wangchuk
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Session introduction and opening remarks Anti-inflammatory drug lead molecules from Australian Wet Tropics montane plant
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones? Characterization of Phenolic Metabolites and Enzyme Activities During Growth Stages of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum)
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Integrating Indigenous wisdom to shape institutional practices and marine governance Emotions through Foraging Plants and the Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge in the Kerama Islands, Japan
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Ethnobotanical and medicinal uses of Calotropis procera based on digital documentation
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM DISCUSSION: Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones?
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Medicinal Plant Diversity of Swat Pakistan: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Therapeutic Innovations
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Plant Use in the Channel Country: Community-led Ethnobotany on Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Āhuatanga (cultural characterization); conservation of traditional kūmara (sweetpotato) and taewa (Māori potato) varieties in Aotearoa
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM 30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - The Ogiek Knowledge On Medicinal Plants
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Provenance, Authentication, and Functional Standardisation of Pittosporum angustifolium (Gumbi Gumbi)
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Tully 3
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Rooted in Islands, Connected Across Oceans: Building Networks to Support Biocultural Research in the Pacific
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Edible and Medicinal Plants) - Traditional Custodian experiences of co-led project: ‘A deadly solution: towards an Indigenous-led bushfoods industry’
Chaired by Dale Chapman
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Introduction to the project
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Yumbangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC)
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Batavia Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM The project’s governance and ethics systems
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Summary and Discussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two Way Science Rangers and Researchers
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Three-Eyed Seeing: Being the Voice for Our Relations
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Safeguarding the Torres Straits ecosystem values through environmental DNA monitoring
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Over the Generations - Wreck Bay yarns for plants and animals
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Indigenous Cultural Use and Population Genetics of Dioscorea transversa: Setting the Stage for Biocultural Restoration
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM How does variation in resource availability influence the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge?
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Ethno-medicinal plants used in primary healthcare by the natives of Kasha Pat, North-West Himalaya
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Co-Development of a Seasonal Calendar in South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Indigenous Science in Ecological Sustainability: How Malawian Indigenous communities have contributed to biodiversity conservation
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
ISE Board Meeting

Kuranda Ballroom
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Recognition of Indigenous self-determination and prior rights in science research governance
Theme: Intellectual Property
Facilitator: Jim Walker
Panelists: Helen Ross and Cathy Robinson
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Intellectual Property
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Indigenous-led mapping for rematriation: from Indigenous Communities to the world
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM A waka recovered - data sovereignty and traditional Moriori knowledge in an archaeological investigation
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Recording Indigenous Ecological Knowledge – how a consent process contributes to CAREful sharing.
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Re-centering Indigenous Sovereignty in Herbarium Practice: An Indigenous-led Consent Pathway from Kakadu National Park
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Co-Creating Fair Access and Benefit Sharing: Nepal’s Twenty-five Year Journey Toward Equitable ABS Governance
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM VANISHING VOICES: TRIBAL YOUTH AND THE DECLINE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN RAJASTHAN
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Agriculture / Industries
CHAIR: Susanne Schmidt
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Ethnobotany of vegetatively propagated crops in east and west Africa and changes in living memory
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM A Blockchain solution to Traditional Ownership Security and Product Provenance in the Australian Bushfood Industry
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM A rich living world beneath our feet: Exploring the ethnoecology of soils
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Pili kau, pili ho‘oilo: Plant–plant facilitation in Indigenous Hawaiian agroforest restoration
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Integrating technology and indigenous biocultural knowledge for sustainable cultivation and cultural revitalisation of Cyperus textilis
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Management of Critical Minerals and Hydrogen in Eastern DRC
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Biocultural Adaption to Climate Change
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Mossman Ballroom
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ethical Digital Space for Ethnobiology: Stories of Archives, AI, and Awareness with ADIE
Theme: Ethics
Facilitators: Felice Wyndham and Morgan Ruelle
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Ethics
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Coal Mining in The Canadian Rocky Mountains: Practicing Caretaking Through Iyethka Traditional Protocol
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Indigenous-led/co-designed Traditional Knowledge and biodiversity assessments for fungi and orchids in Kakadu
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Basecamp Research: Setting a Benchmark for Ethical Biodiscovery
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Ethics: how and for whom, an Indigenous Perspective
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM The Price of Silence: How Excluding Indigenous Knowledge Undermines Conservation Outcomes and Local Well-Being
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Education and Database
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Agrobiodiversity and Climate Adaptation in the Philippines’ School Gardens: Case Study of Lighthouse Schools Cavite
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Embedding Ecological Values in Stories and Grammar
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM In honour of Aboriginal Teachers and Dreams: Reflections from 40 years as an Australian ethnoecologist
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Entanglement and Contagion: Ecological Knowledge, Cultural Narratives, and the Disappearance of Bats from New England
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Plural valuation of Andean Camelids, llamas and vicuñas by the Indigenous Council, Jujuy, NW Argentina
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for intercontinental TEK transfer
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Reimagining biology through a microbiome
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Pilina Inoa: Re-Defining Conservation in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Tully 1
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Databases and First Nations Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Theme: Database
Facilitator: Professor Natalie Stoianoff
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants
CHAIR: Marlize Bekker
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM A co-research partnership moving towards commercial development of the Uncha plant from Kuuku I’yu homelands
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicinal Plant Hub
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Alaskan Aesthetics of Abundance: Fishing, Foraging, and Festivals for Security and Strength during Dark Times
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Nature’s Arsenal Against Liver Cancer: Phytochemicals in HCC Therapy
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM An Emerging Australian Native Species: Colourimetric, Bioactive, Metabolomic, and Pharmacokinetic investigations
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Fire, Food, Knowledge: Linking Changing Fire Regimes to Wild Edible Plant Diversity and Cultural Resilience in South India
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION: Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones? (Convened by Vitor Renck)
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Session introduction and opening remarks
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones?
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Integrating Indigenous wisdom to shape institutional practices and marine governance
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM DISCUSSION: Should we transform the way we deal with IPLCS and Marine Zones?
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM 30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - The Ogiek Knowledge On Medicinal Plants
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Tully 2
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Prioritising Indigenous Knowledge for climate resilience: Live & Learn’s Indigenous Knowledge Leadership Programme
Facilitator: Mr Nick Mattiske
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers (2)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Biocultural Monitoring after a Cultural Burn at Dharriwaa (Narran Lake Nature Reserve) in NSW, Australia
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Embodied Pathways: Indigenous Hunting and Ecological Aesthetics in Southern Taiwan’s Central Highlands
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Dingoes on Nyangumarta Country: A Two-Way Science Approach to research and management
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Relational ontologies and weaving of knowledge to cope with climate change in Melanesia?
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Climate Change and Health Sector Response in Nepal: Analyzing Policy Gaps
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Tracking Change Together: Emerging Themes on Caribou Health and Environment through Indigenous Science
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (3)
CHAIR: Phurpa Wangchuk
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Anti-inflammatory drug lead molecules from Australian Wet Tropics montane plant
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Characterization of Phenolic Metabolites and Enzyme Activities During Growth Stages of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum)
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Emotions through Foraging Plants and the Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge in the Kerama Islands, Japan
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Ethnobotanical and medicinal uses of Calotropis procera based on digital documentation
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Medicinal Plant Diversity of Swat Pakistan: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Therapeutic Innovations
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Plant Use in the Channel Country: Community-led Ethnobotany on Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Āhuatanga (cultural characterization); conservation of traditional kūmara (sweetpotato) and taewa (Māori potato) varieties in Aotearoa
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Provenance, Authentication, and Functional Standardisation of Pittosporum angustifolium (Gumbi Gumbi)
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Tully 3
OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Gerry Turpin
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome to Country and opening remarks
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Food Security in the face of climate change
Professor Henrietta Marrie, The University of Queensland
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
MORNING TEA (MONDAY)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Rooted in Islands, Connected Across Oceans: Building Networks to Support Biocultural Research in the Pacific
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Monday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Edible and Medicinal Plants) - Traditional Custodian experiences of co-led project: ‘A deadly solution: towards an Indigenous-led bushfoods industry’
Chaired by Dale Chapman
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Introduction to the project
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Yumbangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC)
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Batavia Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM The project’s governance and ethics systems
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Summary and Discussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Monday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two Way Science Rangers and Researchers
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Three-Eyed Seeing: Being the Voice for Our Relations
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Safeguarding the Torres Straits ecosystem values through environmental DNA monitoring
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Over the Generations - Wreck Bay yarns for plants and animals
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Indigenous Cultural Use and Population Genetics of Dioscorea transversa: Setting the Stage for Biocultural Restoration
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM How does variation in resource availability influence the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge?
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Ethno-medicinal plants used in primary healthcare by the natives of Kasha Pat, North-West Himalaya
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Co-Development of a Seasonal Calendar in South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Indigenous Science in Ecological Sustainability: How Malawian Indigenous communities have contributed to biodiversity conservation
Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM A "Novel Herbal Oil Blend" for an Immediate Relief of Chronic and Acute Body Aches
Adopting Non-native Trees: Collective Agricultural Innovation among the Bena of Tanzania
Agriculture/ Industries
Animal and plant values in ecological and ethnobiological networks in Madagascar
Antidiabetic Potential of Australian Tropical Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals
Challenges of Cassava Cultivation in Temperate Japan
Combinations of Ingredients for cooking among the Ganda of Central Uganda
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Heritage of Walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Northern Pakistan
Fermentation Starters and Plants Across Asia
Formosan Names of Taiwan Birds: A computer-aided quest through archives and contemporary fieldwork
Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss
Ia Uluulu Matāfolau: Exploring the Risk of Ciguatera Poisoning in American Samoa
Integrating spirituality, nature connectedness and traditional beliefs for holistic mangrove conservation in Casamance, Senegal
Knowledge Transmission through Social Relationships among Producers of Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms in Tsushima City, Japan
Mangroves in movies : are they portrayed as enchanting, doomed or irrelevant ?
Mangroves on social media – What are people saying?
Moringa oleifera-based Ethnobotanical Cropping Systems for Improved Productivity of Tropical Acrisol in Ghana
Pharmacological properties of Platycarpha glomerata extracts-(Thunb.) Less – a plant used to treat and manage elephantiasis
Playing with Mangroves: Do children effectively learn what mangroves are through games ?
Restoring Traditional Knowledge in Food Systems for Maori communities (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Seeds of the Word: Indigenous Poetry, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Contemporary Mexican Literatures
Species richness and community composition of frogs along rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea.
The lightning thief: how much mangrove biomass is lifted when lightning strikes a mangrove forest?
The Supply of Balanites as a Famine Food in Sahel region of West Africa
Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge in Japanese Honeybee Beekeeping on Tsushima Island in Japan
Wild Bird Captivity in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Conflicts in a Protected Area Buffer Zone
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
ISE Board Meeting

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Kuranda Ballroom
Mossman Ballroom
Tully 1
Tully 3
Tully 2
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM 45 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Can we produce a framework for an international Red List of Biocultural Systems?
Theme: Ethics
Facilitator: A/Prof Emilie Ens
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Weaving Digital and Territorial Defense: Synergies for Biocultural Diversity?
Theme: Ethics
Facilitator: Constanza Monterrubio-Solis 		90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - A Cross-Cultural Fishing Technology Workshop Inspired by Taiwanese Indigenous Fata’an Amis' Water Culture 90 MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethnobiology Phase VI: Are We There Yet?
FACILITATED BY Vitor Renck
PANEL MEMBERS: Vitor Renck, Janelle Baker, Ina Vandebroek, Linda Black Elk
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM 45 MINUTE YARNING CIRDLE - Martu knowledge leads an international science debate about linyji (fairy circles) and learning across generations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Fungi, Birds, Mangroves and Human-Wild life conflict
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social
Edible and Medicinal Plants (4)
CHAIR: Joseph Natasi
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Biocultural Knowledge and Tending Practices of Hala (Pandanus tectorius) Across the Hawaiian Islands Why is climate change killing plants at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park? Interpreting the biocultural: implications and opportunities for diverse conceptualizations of the term Australian Native Foods in Gastronomy: Culture, Ethics, Culinary Practice, and Supply Chains
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Meaning of Individual Tree Names as Biocultural Knowledge: Marula Trees Uses in North-Central Namibia Uses of trees for everyday material culture items by Yagara People in SEQ, Australia Yaripo: a indigenous Sacred Natural Site in the highest mountain in Brazil Neuromodulatory and Anthelmintic Potential of Tannin-Free Native Plant Extracts in Caenorhabditis elegans
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM ‘Whare Atua’ – Endemic Psychoactive Fungi as Taonga: An Ethnomycological Perspective from Aotearoa Manauoomillyan in Practice: Hypothetical Vignettes Showing How Indigenous Methods Shape Safer R&D Building Community Resilience in Remote Treaty Villages of South Fly District, Papua New Guinea Painting Knowledge on Alyawarr Country: an Ethnobotany Study in a Central Desert Community
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Understanding Socioecological Discourses For Adaptive Mangrove Management In Setiu Wetlands, Malaysia Finding Common Ground: Making connections between Yolŋu and Western scientific ontologies for two-way knowledge sharing Traditional-Ecological Knowledge in sustainable Development among Pashtuns: A Socio-cultural and Historical Perspective of Swat, Pakistan Production Research on Indigenous Bushfoods from Mbabaram Country, West of Atherton
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Swallow Hunting in Northern Laos: Ecological and Social Significance of the Migratory Birds Use Deep-Time Food Histories and Cultural Landscapes in Far North Queensland's Walsh River Region Sacred Trees of Greater Asian: Their Cultural Uses, Values, and Role in Conservation Initiatives Understanding Flow: Plant DNA, Biocultural Landscapes, and Traditional Owner Knowledge Systems (Wet Tropics) Northern Queensland
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Status of an insular ethnotramp: New Guinea Pademelon in insular Papua New Guinea Ethnobiology in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot: Eucalypts in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region Understanding Kīpuka: How Communities are Caring for ʻĀina Across Hawaiʻi Singing Forests, Healing Fungi: Edible and Medicinal Fungal Knowledge and Miombo Women's Stewardship
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Building abundance: indigenous stewardship practices foster sustainable wild-plant harvest and inform conservation policies An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation in northern Canada Holistic Analysis of a Traditional Aboriginal Medicine to Support Commercial Development
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Connecting museum and herbarium collections to Country (Convened by Elycia Wallis) 90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Human-bats interactions in Austronesian contexts: An interface between Indigenous knowledge and ecology (Convened by Frederic Laugrand) 90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Old Ways New: Working in Two Worlds on Taungurung Biik (Convened by Fern Hames)
Theme: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Introduction Reading Country
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Holim Pas Tok Ples: Facilitating community interventions and innovations to strengthen transmission of Indigenous language
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Reconnecting Botanical Specimens to Country Embodying the intangible: expressing biocultural values
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Biocultural Knowledge at the National Herbarium of Victoria A Two Worlds Forest Management Planning Framework
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Surfacing Connections to Country through Biodiversity Research Infrastructures When Seven Worlds Connect (not Collide): collaborative governance in a Cultural Landscape
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - The Grassroots Leadership Programme: Indigenous conservation leadership training from the ground up
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Building connections and Indigenous data governance around national biological collections
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM DISCUSSION: Old Ways New: Working in Two Worlds on Taungurung Biik
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Interactive Discussion
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)
Kuranda Ballroom
Mossman Ballroom
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Weaving Digital and Territorial Defense: Synergies for Biocultural Diversity?
Theme: Ethics
Facilitator: Constanza Monterrubio-Solis 		90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - A Cross-Cultural Fishing Technology Workshop Inspired by Taiwanese Indigenous Fata’an Amis' Water Culture
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Fungi, Birds, Mangroves and Human-Wild life conflict
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Biocultural Knowledge and Tending Practices of Hala (Pandanus tectorius) Across the Hawaiian Islands Why is climate change killing plants at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park?
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Meaning of Individual Tree Names as Biocultural Knowledge: Marula Trees Uses in North-Central Namibia Uses of trees for everyday material culture items by Yagara People in SEQ, Australia
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM ‘Whare Atua’ – Endemic Psychoactive Fungi as Taonga: An Ethnomycological Perspective from Aotearoa Manauoomillyan in Practice: Hypothetical Vignettes Showing How Indigenous Methods Shape Safer R&D
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Understanding Socioecological Discourses For Adaptive Mangrove Management In Setiu Wetlands, Malaysia Finding Common Ground: Making connections between Yolŋu and Western scientific ontologies for two-way knowledge sharing
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Swallow Hunting in Northern Laos: Ecological and Social Significance of the Migratory Birds Use Deep-Time Food Histories and Cultural Landscapes in Far North Queensland's Walsh River Region
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Status of an insular ethnotramp: New Guinea Pademelon in insular Papua New Guinea Ethnobiology in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot: Eucalypts in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Building abundance: indigenous stewardship practices foster sustainable wild-plant harvest and inform conservation policies An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation in northern Canada
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Connecting museum and herbarium collections to Country (Convened by Elycia Wallis) 90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Human-bats interactions in Austronesian contexts: An interface between Indigenous knowledge and ecology (Convened by Frederic Laugrand)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Introduction
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Reconnecting Botanical Specimens to Country
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Biocultural Knowledge at the National Herbarium of Victoria
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Surfacing Connections to Country through Biodiversity Research Infrastructures
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Building connections and Indigenous data governance around national biological collections
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Interactive Discussion
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Tully 1
Tully 3
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM 45 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Can we produce a framework for an international Red List of Biocultural Systems?
Theme: Ethics
Facilitator: A/Prof Emilie Ens
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 90 MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethnobiology Phase VI: Are We There Yet?
FACILITATED BY Vitor Renck
PANEL MEMBERS: Vitor Renck, Janelle Baker, Ina Vandebroek, Linda Black Elk
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM 45 MINUTE YARNING CIRDLE - Martu knowledge leads an international science debate about linyji (fairy circles) and learning across generations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social
Edible and Medicinal Plants (4)
CHAIR: Joseph Natasi
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Interpreting the biocultural: implications and opportunities for diverse conceptualizations of the term Australian Native Foods in Gastronomy: Culture, Ethics, Culinary Practice, and Supply Chains
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Yaripo: a indigenous Sacred Natural Site in the highest mountain in Brazil Neuromodulatory and Anthelmintic Potential of Tannin-Free Native Plant Extracts in Caenorhabditis elegans
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Building Community Resilience in Remote Treaty Villages of South Fly District, Papua New Guinea Painting Knowledge on Alyawarr Country: an Ethnobotany Study in a Central Desert Community
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Traditional-Ecological Knowledge in sustainable Development among Pashtuns: A Socio-cultural and Historical Perspective of Swat, Pakistan Production Research on Indigenous Bushfoods from Mbabaram Country, West of Atherton
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Sacred Trees of Greater Asian: Their Cultural Uses, Values, and Role in Conservation Initiatives Understanding Flow: Plant DNA, Biocultural Landscapes, and Traditional Owner Knowledge Systems (Wet Tropics) Northern Queensland
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Understanding Kīpuka: How Communities are Caring for ʻĀina Across Hawaiʻi Singing Forests, Healing Fungi: Edible and Medicinal Fungal Knowledge and Miombo Women's Stewardship
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Holistic Analysis of a Traditional Aboriginal Medicine to Support Commercial Development
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Old Ways New: Working in Two Worlds on Taungurung Biik (Convened by Fern Hames)
Theme: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Reading Country
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Holim Pas Tok Ples: Facilitating community interventions and innovations to strengthen transmission of Indigenous language
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Embodying the intangible: expressing biocultural values
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM A Two Worlds Forest Management Planning Framework
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM When Seven Worlds Connect (not Collide): collaborative governance in a Cultural Landscape
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - The Grassroots Leadership Programme: Indigenous conservation leadership training from the ground up
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM DISCUSSION: Old Ways New: Working in Two Worlds on Taungurung Biik
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Tully 2
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Kuranda Ballroom
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Weaving Digital and Territorial Defense: Synergies for Biocultural Diversity?
Theme: Ethics
Facilitator: Constanza Monterrubio-Solis
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Fungi, Birds, Mangroves and Human-Wild life conflict
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Biocultural Knowledge and Tending Practices of Hala (Pandanus tectorius) Across the Hawaiian Islands
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Meaning of Individual Tree Names as Biocultural Knowledge: Marula Trees Uses in North-Central Namibia
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM ‘Whare Atua’ – Endemic Psychoactive Fungi as Taonga: An Ethnomycological Perspective from Aotearoa
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Understanding Socioecological Discourses For Adaptive Mangrove Management In Setiu Wetlands, Malaysia
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Swallow Hunting in Northern Laos: Ecological and Social Significance of the Migratory Birds Use
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Status of an insular ethnotramp: New Guinea Pademelon in insular Papua New Guinea
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Building abundance: indigenous stewardship practices foster sustainable wild-plant harvest and inform conservation policies
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Connecting museum and herbarium collections to Country (Convened by Elycia Wallis)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Introduction
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Reconnecting Botanical Specimens to Country
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Biocultural Knowledge at the National Herbarium of Victoria
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Surfacing Connections to Country through Biodiversity Research Infrastructures
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Building connections and Indigenous data governance around national biological collections
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Interactive Discussion
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Mossman Ballroom
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - A Cross-Cultural Fishing Technology Workshop Inspired by Taiwanese Indigenous Fata’an Amis' Water Culture
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Why is climate change killing plants at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park?
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Uses of trees for everyday material culture items by Yagara People in SEQ, Australia
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Manauoomillyan in Practice: Hypothetical Vignettes Showing How Indigenous Methods Shape Safer R&D
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Finding Common Ground: Making connections between Yolŋu and Western scientific ontologies for two-way knowledge sharing
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Deep-Time Food Histories and Cultural Landscapes in Far North Queensland's Walsh River Region
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Ethnobiology in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot: Eucalypts in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation in northern Canada
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Human-bats interactions in Austronesian contexts: An interface between Indigenous knowledge and ecology (Convened by Frederic Laugrand)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Tully 1
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 90 MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethnobiology Phase VI: Are We There Yet?
FACILITATED BY Vitor Renck
PANEL MEMBERS: Vitor Renck, Janelle Baker, Ina Vandebroek, Linda Black Elk
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Interpreting the biocultural: implications and opportunities for diverse conceptualizations of the term
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Yaripo: a indigenous Sacred Natural Site in the highest mountain in Brazil
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Building Community Resilience in Remote Treaty Villages of South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Traditional-Ecological Knowledge in sustainable Development among Pashtuns: A Socio-cultural and Historical Perspective of Swat, Pakistan
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Sacred Trees of Greater Asian: Their Cultural Uses, Values, and Role in Conservation Initiatives
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Understanding Kīpuka: How Communities are Caring for ʻĀina Across Hawaiʻi
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Old Ways New: Working in Two Worlds on Taungurung Biik (Convened by Fern Hames)
Theme: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Reading Country
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Embodying the intangible: expressing biocultural values
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM A Two Worlds Forest Management Planning Framework
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM When Seven Worlds Connect (not Collide): collaborative governance in a Cultural Landscape
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM DISCUSSION: Old Ways New: Working in Two Worlds on Taungurung Biik
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Tully 3
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM 45 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Can we produce a framework for an international Red List of Biocultural Systems?
Theme: Ethics
Facilitator: A/Prof Emilie Ens
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM 45 MINUTE YARNING CIRDLE - Martu knowledge leads an international science debate about linyji (fairy circles) and learning across generations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
Edible and Medicinal Plants (4)
CHAIR: Joseph Natasi
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Australian Native Foods in Gastronomy: Culture, Ethics, Culinary Practice, and Supply Chains
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Neuromodulatory and Anthelmintic Potential of Tannin-Free Native Plant Extracts in Caenorhabditis elegans
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Painting Knowledge on Alyawarr Country: an Ethnobotany Study in a Central Desert Community
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Production Research on Indigenous Bushfoods from Mbabaram Country, West of Atherton
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Understanding Flow: Plant DNA, Biocultural Landscapes, and Traditional Owner Knowledge Systems (Wet Tropics) Northern Queensland
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Singing Forests, Healing Fungi: Edible and Medicinal Fungal Knowledge and Miombo Women's Stewardship
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Holistic Analysis of a Traditional Aboriginal Medicine to Support Commercial Development
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Holim Pas Tok Ples: Facilitating community interventions and innovations to strengthen transmission of Indigenous language
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - The Grassroots Leadership Programme: Indigenous conservation leadership training from the ground up
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Tully 2
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR MARTIN NAKATA
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - PROFESSOR BARRY HUNTER
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Tuesday)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6:15 PM - 11:00 PM Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Kuranda Ballroom
Mossman Ballroom
Tully 1
Tully 2
Tully 3
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS - Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers | Edible and Medicinal Plants
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social (2)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (6)
CHAIR: Tron Tran
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Combining innovation and local knowledge in wildlife evaluation and monitoring in Niassa Province, Mozambique Land Histories and Futures: Understanding Social–Ecological Change for Biocultural Restoration, Northeast Madagascar Folk Classification and Morphological Diversity of Local Mangoes in Northwestern Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE / CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Marking Indigenous Stewardship: Making Iyethka Traditional Eagle Staffs for Land-Based Reconciliation
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Following the Tracks: The art of teaching about food and culture
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Wild Food Plant Foraging in the World’s Highest Karakorum Mountains; A Generational Perspective Transitioning Social-Ecological Governance in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge after the Peace Accord. Honouring Heritage: Recognising History of Use in the Safety Evaluation of Traditionally Used Plants
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Checkboxes and Checkbooks: Biocultural Conservation Goes Mainstream Conciliating people and biodiversity: can community-managed forests benefit both? Heavy Metal Risk in a traditionally used plant in Paraguay: Ethnobiological and Human Ecological Perspective
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ngurra, Ninti and Yiwarra Martuku – Kujunkarrinyjangka: Indigenous Approaches for Ranger, Ecological and Social Work
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Investigating the in vitro anticancer potential and phytochemical constituents of Cheilanthes hirta Swartz. extracts Trapped by Poverty: Rethinking Traditional Ecological Knowledge through the Case of Goldfinch Illegal Trade Target Identification of Traditional Aboriginal Medicines
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Reclaiming traditional knowledge; promoting food security in Tanna Island, Vanuatu Partnering with Paraguayan Indigenous knowledge to build public policies for climate change and ecological challenges. Antimalarial Activity from Unstudied Indonesian Medicinal Plants
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM 45 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Mayi and medicines: Bush foods plants from Martu desert country to share, prepare and try
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM In-situ plant conservation for traditional foods in the South Pacific; the risks and rewards. Land and Water as Essential Foundations for Healing Criminalized and Carceral Trauma: Indigenous Land-based Healing
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM 30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Gadji Gadji Garden - creating a safe space for language and knowledge regrowth and sharing
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM Ancient Fire, New Pathways: Expanding Cultural Burning across NSW Spirits of the Land: Cosmopolitical Ecologies in Bhutan’s More-Than-Human Landscapes
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Farmers, Herders and Mountains
THEMED PRESENTATIONS: Education | Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
SESSION CHAIR: Lorna Ngugi 		ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (2)
CHAIR: Sarfaraz Ali
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Biocultural knowledge and tourism
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Ethics): Eleanor Sterling: A Legacy of Cooperation in Science (Convened by Sophie Cailon)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Comparative Ethnoecological Knowledge of Farmers and Herders on Pests and Parasites in Central Europe Free Radicals. A toolkit for thinking-with plants in arts, design, and culture Comparative study of past and present edible plants use among the Hadza in Tanzania Language proficiency and ethnobiological knowledge decline in major linguistic hotspots: West Africa and New Guinea Eleanor J. Sterling, a weaver of connections
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM From Planting to Home: Cultural Healing and Ethnobiological Resilience among Indigenous Communities in Taiwan Tejiendo Mundos: Ethnoecology in the Construction of an Intercultural Environmental Education Testing the Ecological Apparency Hypothesis: Ethnobotanical Evidence from Tropical Dry Forests of Madagascar Retelling Old Stories: Traditional Forest Narratives and Their Influence on Modern Conservation Eleanor J. Sterling’s wide ranging contributions to science
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Agricultural Policy, Fruit Tree Adoption, and Environmental Risk Among Smallholders in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco The Bribri world and its surroundings: Nature and I; us and all humans Biocultural Resilience through Time and Space in Southern Vanuatu Social and ecological outcomes of biocultural restoration of an agroforestry system in Heʻeia, Oʻahu Contextualizing Well-being in French Wine Production: A Longitudinal Biocultural Approach
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM From Mountains to Museums: Revitalizing Bunun Leather Tanning and Knowledge Sovereignty in Taiwan Inclusive and rights-based conservation and development from an Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge Perspective “So what? We already knew this”: Cycad processing through a munangangala lens Ulana i Ka Pala Lauhala: Weaving ʻIke Kupuna to Restore Hala in Hawaiʻi Following in Eleanor Sterling’s example as the inaugural AMNH Sterling Fellow
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Changing and diverging relationships between people and wild animals among the Malo, southwestern Ethiopia Kaytetye plants and animals: weaving music, kinship and country in central Australian Ethnobiology A fading botanical heritage: The role of edible wild grasses in traditional African food systems Beyond Tourism and Heritage Protection: Towards Integrated Ainu-Led Land Stewardship in Hokkaido, Japan Restor(y)ing "lahui" to empower Indigenous-led conservation in Hawai'i
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Collecting fragmented local knowledge, connecting generations: 25 years of a culinary group in Northern Japan Opening paths, Pewecxanxi: Recognizing the territory to learn in nature like own education Beyond Names: Collaborative Identification Methods in an Eastern Indonesian Community Following the Tracks: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge through Food and Nutrition Putting Pacific biocultural indicators of wellbeing into policy and practice
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Lets yarn about the sharing and governance of Indigenous data 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Free Radicals: a discussion on thinking-with plants and art-science practices for ecological care 60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rooted Transformations of People and Nature: Co-evolving Values, Knowledge and Governance in Complex Adjacent Systems 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - From Sequences to Sovereignty: Centring Place-Based Knowledge and Biodiversity Custodians in the Digital Data Era 60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rights and livelihoods of subsistence hunting families in the Anthropocene
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION
Kuranda Ballroom
Mossman Ballroom
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS - Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers | Edible and Medicinal Plants
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social (2)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Combining innovation and local knowledge in wildlife evaluation and monitoring in Niassa Province, Mozambique Land Histories and Futures: Understanding Social–Ecological Change for Biocultural Restoration, Northeast Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Wild Food Plant Foraging in the World’s Highest Karakorum Mountains; A Generational Perspective Transitioning Social-Ecological Governance in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge after the Peace Accord.
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Checkboxes and Checkbooks: Biocultural Conservation Goes Mainstream Conciliating people and biodiversity: can community-managed forests benefit both?
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Investigating the in vitro anticancer potential and phytochemical constituents of Cheilanthes hirta Swartz. extracts Trapped by Poverty: Rethinking Traditional Ecological Knowledge through the Case of Goldfinch Illegal Trade
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Reclaiming traditional knowledge; promoting food security in Tanna Island, Vanuatu Partnering with Paraguayan Indigenous knowledge to build public policies for climate change and ecological challenges.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM In-situ plant conservation for traditional foods in the South Pacific; the risks and rewards. Land and Water as Essential Foundations for Healing Criminalized and Carceral Trauma: Indigenous Land-based Healing
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM Ancient Fire, New Pathways: Expanding Cultural Burning across NSW Spirits of the Land: Cosmopolitical Ecologies in Bhutan’s More-Than-Human Landscapes
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Farmers, Herders and Mountains
THEMED PRESENTATIONS: Education | Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
SESSION CHAIR: Lorna Ngugi
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Comparative Ethnoecological Knowledge of Farmers and Herders on Pests and Parasites in Central Europe Free Radicals. A toolkit for thinking-with plants in arts, design, and culture
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM From Planting to Home: Cultural Healing and Ethnobiological Resilience among Indigenous Communities in Taiwan Tejiendo Mundos: Ethnoecology in the Construction of an Intercultural Environmental Education
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Agricultural Policy, Fruit Tree Adoption, and Environmental Risk Among Smallholders in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco The Bribri world and its surroundings: Nature and I; us and all humans
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM From Mountains to Museums: Revitalizing Bunun Leather Tanning and Knowledge Sovereignty in Taiwan Inclusive and rights-based conservation and development from an Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge Perspective
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Changing and diverging relationships between people and wild animals among the Malo, southwestern Ethiopia Kaytetye plants and animals: weaving music, kinship and country in central Australian Ethnobiology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Collecting fragmented local knowledge, connecting generations: 25 years of a culinary group in Northern Japan Opening paths, Pewecxanxi: Recognizing the territory to learn in nature like own education
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Lets yarn about the sharing and governance of Indigenous data 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Free Radicals: a discussion on thinking-with plants and art-science practices for ecological care
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Tully 1
Tully 2
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (6)
CHAIR: Tron Tran
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Folk Classification and Morphological Diversity of Local Mangoes in Northwestern Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Following the Tracks: The art of teaching about food and culture
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Honouring Heritage: Recognising History of Use in the Safety Evaluation of Traditionally Used Plants
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Heavy Metal Risk in a traditionally used plant in Paraguay: Ethnobiological and Human Ecological Perspective
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Target Identification of Traditional Aboriginal Medicines
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Antimalarial Activity from Unstudied Indonesian Medicinal Plants
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM 30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Gadji Gadji Garden - creating a safe space for language and knowledge regrowth and sharing
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (2)
CHAIR: Sarfaraz Ali
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Biocultural knowledge and tourism
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Comparative study of past and present edible plants use among the Hadza in Tanzania Language proficiency and ethnobiological knowledge decline in major linguistic hotspots: West Africa and New Guinea
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Testing the Ecological Apparency Hypothesis: Ethnobotanical Evidence from Tropical Dry Forests of Madagascar Retelling Old Stories: Traditional Forest Narratives and Their Influence on Modern Conservation
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Biocultural Resilience through Time and Space in Southern Vanuatu Social and ecological outcomes of biocultural restoration of an agroforestry system in Heʻeia, Oʻahu
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM “So what? We already knew this”: Cycad processing through a munangangala lens Ulana i Ka Pala Lauhala: Weaving ʻIke Kupuna to Restore Hala in Hawaiʻi
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM A fading botanical heritage: The role of edible wild grasses in traditional African food systems Beyond Tourism and Heritage Protection: Towards Integrated Ainu-Led Land Stewardship in Hokkaido, Japan
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Beyond Names: Collaborative Identification Methods in an Eastern Indonesian Community Following the Tracks: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge through Food and Nutrition
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rooted Transformations of People and Nature: Co-evolving Values, Knowledge and Governance in Complex Adjacent Systems 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - From Sequences to Sovereignty: Centring Place-Based Knowledge and Biodiversity Custodians in the Digital Data Era
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Tully 3
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE / CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Marking Indigenous Stewardship: Making Iyethka Traditional Eagle Staffs for Land-Based Reconciliation
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ngurra, Ninti and Yiwarra Martuku – Kujunkarrinyjangka: Indigenous Approaches for Ranger, Ecological and Social Work
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM 45 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Mayi and medicines: Bush foods plants from Martu desert country to share, prepare and try
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Ethics): Eleanor Sterling: A Legacy of Cooperation in Science (Convened by Sophie Cailon)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Eleanor J. Sterling, a weaver of connections
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Eleanor J. Sterling’s wide ranging contributions to science
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Contextualizing Well-being in French Wine Production: A Longitudinal Biocultural Approach
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Following in Eleanor Sterling’s example as the inaugural AMNH Sterling Fellow
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Restor(y)ing "lahui" to empower Indigenous-led conservation in Hawai'i
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Putting Pacific biocultural indicators of wellbeing into policy and practice
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rights and livelihoods of subsistence hunting families in the Anthropocene
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Kuranda Ballroom
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS - Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers | Edible and Medicinal Plants
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Combining innovation and local knowledge in wildlife evaluation and monitoring in Niassa Province, Mozambique
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Wild Food Plant Foraging in the World’s Highest Karakorum Mountains; A Generational Perspective
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Checkboxes and Checkbooks: Biocultural Conservation Goes Mainstream
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Investigating the in vitro anticancer potential and phytochemical constituents of Cheilanthes hirta Swartz. extracts
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Reclaiming traditional knowledge; promoting food security in Tanna Island, Vanuatu
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM In-situ plant conservation for traditional foods in the South Pacific; the risks and rewards.
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM Ancient Fire, New Pathways: Expanding Cultural Burning across NSW
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Farmers, Herders and Mountains
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Comparative Ethnoecological Knowledge of Farmers and Herders on Pests and Parasites in Central Europe
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM From Planting to Home: Cultural Healing and Ethnobiological Resilience among Indigenous Communities in Taiwan
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Agricultural Policy, Fruit Tree Adoption, and Environmental Risk Among Smallholders in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM From Mountains to Museums: Revitalizing Bunun Leather Tanning and Knowledge Sovereignty in Taiwan
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Changing and diverging relationships between people and wild animals among the Malo, southwestern Ethiopia
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Collecting fragmented local knowledge, connecting generations: 25 years of a culinary group in Northern Japan
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Lets yarn about the sharing and governance of Indigenous data
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Mossman Ballroom
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social (2)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Land Histories and Futures: Understanding Social–Ecological Change for Biocultural Restoration, Northeast Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Transitioning Social-Ecological Governance in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge after the Peace Accord.
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Conciliating people and biodiversity: can community-managed forests benefit both?
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Trapped by Poverty: Rethinking Traditional Ecological Knowledge through the Case of Goldfinch Illegal Trade
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Partnering with Paraguayan Indigenous knowledge to build public policies for climate change and ecological challenges.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Land and Water as Essential Foundations for Healing Criminalized and Carceral Trauma: Indigenous Land-based Healing
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM Spirits of the Land: Cosmopolitical Ecologies in Bhutan’s More-Than-Human Landscapes
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
THEMED PRESENTATIONS: Education | Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers
SESSION CHAIR: Lorna Ngugi
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Free Radicals. A toolkit for thinking-with plants in arts, design, and culture
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Tejiendo Mundos: Ethnoecology in the Construction of an Intercultural Environmental Education
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM The Bribri world and its surroundings: Nature and I; us and all humans
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Inclusive and rights-based conservation and development from an Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge Perspective
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Kaytetye plants and animals: weaving music, kinship and country in central Australian Ethnobiology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Opening paths, Pewecxanxi: Recognizing the territory to learn in nature like own education
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Free Radicals: a discussion on thinking-with plants and art-science practices for ecological care
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Tully 1
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (6)
CHAIR: Tron Tran
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Folk Classification and Morphological Diversity of Local Mangoes in Northwestern Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Honouring Heritage: Recognising History of Use in the Safety Evaluation of Traditionally Used Plants
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Heavy Metal Risk in a traditionally used plant in Paraguay: Ethnobiological and Human Ecological Perspective
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Target Identification of Traditional Aboriginal Medicines
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Antimalarial Activity from Unstudied Indonesian Medicinal Plants
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (2)
CHAIR: Sarfaraz Ali
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Comparative study of past and present edible plants use among the Hadza in Tanzania
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Testing the Ecological Apparency Hypothesis: Ethnobotanical Evidence from Tropical Dry Forests of Madagascar
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Biocultural Resilience through Time and Space in Southern Vanuatu
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM “So what? We already knew this”: Cycad processing through a munangangala lens
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM A fading botanical heritage: The role of edible wild grasses in traditional African food systems
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Beyond Names: Collaborative Identification Methods in an Eastern Indonesian Community
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rooted Transformations of People and Nature: Co-evolving Values, Knowledge and Governance in Complex Adjacent Systems
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Tully 2
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Following the Tracks: The art of teaching about food and culture
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM 30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Gadji Gadji Garden - creating a safe space for language and knowledge regrowth and sharing
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Biocultural knowledge and tourism
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Language proficiency and ethnobiological knowledge decline in major linguistic hotspots: West Africa and New Guinea
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Retelling Old Stories: Traditional Forest Narratives and Their Influence on Modern Conservation
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Social and ecological outcomes of biocultural restoration of an agroforestry system in Heʻeia, Oʻahu
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Ulana i Ka Pala Lauhala: Weaving ʻIke Kupuna to Restore Hala in Hawaiʻi
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Beyond Tourism and Heritage Protection: Towards Integrated Ainu-Led Land Stewardship in Hokkaido, Japan
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Following the Tracks: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge through Food and Nutrition
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - From Sequences to Sovereignty: Centring Place-Based Knowledge and Biodiversity Custodians in the Digital Data Era
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Tully 3
WEDNESDAY PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Emilie Ens
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Healthy Country: Ethnobotany, Fire, and the Unmaking of Australian Wilderness
Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Empowering Farmers, Growing PNG Together
Dr Pulotu Lautofa McCarthy, Director, Wantok Produce Limited
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning tea (Wednesday)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE / CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Marking Indigenous Stewardship: Making Iyethka Traditional Eagle Staffs for Land-Based Reconciliation
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ngurra, Ninti and Yiwarra Martuku – Kujunkarrinyjangka: Indigenous Approaches for Ranger, Ecological and Social Work
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM 45 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Mayi and medicines: Bush foods plants from Martu desert country to share, prepare and try
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch (Wednesday)
90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Ethics): Eleanor Sterling: A Legacy of Cooperation in Science (Convened by Sophie Cailon)
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Eleanor J. Sterling, a weaver of connections
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Eleanor J. Sterling’s wide ranging contributions to science
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Contextualizing Well-being in French Wine Production: A Longitudinal Biocultural Approach
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Following in Eleanor Sterling’s example as the inaugural AMNH Sterling Fellow
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Restor(y)ing "lahui" to empower Indigenous-led conservation in Hawai'i
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Putting Pacific biocultural indicators of wellbeing into policy and practice
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afternoon tea (Wednesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rights and livelihoods of subsistence hunting families in the Anthropocene
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.
Track 1
Track 2
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 3
Track 4
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 5
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 1
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 2
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 3
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 4
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

Track 5
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:30am from Marlin Jetty Cairns. Return to Cairns by 5pm. Includes Morning Tea, Buffet Lunch and Afternoon Tea, all snorkelling equipment including personal flotation devices in adult/child sizes, Free Wet Suit And Lycra Suit Use, On board Marine Biology presentation/talk en-route to the reef, Fish feeding and identification session with Marine Biologist
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July)
AUD$130 per person INCLUDES: Morning tea/coffee on boarding, snorkelling equipment, glass bottom boat tour, use of the island swimming pool, self-guided eco island walk, use of day visitor facilities and a beach bag. Lunch can be purchased at one of the many cafes on the island. Depart Cairns at 10:30am. Return to Cairns by 5:15pm (depart the island at 4:30pm) This beautiful 6000 year old coral cay is just 45 minutes from Cairns and offers a unique reef and rainforest experience. You are free to enjoy your day, and take part in self-guided tours, a snorkelling experience and the glass bottom boat tour.

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