ISE 2026 Event Info

Sunday, July 26, 2026

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional) and Welcome Reception
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 - 4:00 PM	Field Trip - Cultural Burn Field Trip AUD$120 per person INCLUDES: Cultural burning experience at Bare Hill; Guided learning with Victor Steffensen (Lead Cultural Fire Practitioner, Firesticks) in collaboration with Buluwai Rangers; Lunch
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Field Trip - Rainforestation Nature Park (Sunday 26 July) AUD$130 per person. Includes return coach transfers, BBQ lunch, park entry fees and all activities. Departing at 10.00am and returning at 3.00pm.
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Sunday 26 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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	45 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Mayi and medicines: Bush foods plants from Martu desert country to share, prepare and try
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	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Ethics	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (1) CHAIR: Marlize Bekker	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers (1) Chair: Noel Preece	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Intellectual Property and Database
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Introduction to the project	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	Vanishing Voices: Tribal Youth and the Decline of Traditional Knowledge in Rajasthan
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM	Yumbangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC)	Contextualizing Well-being in French Wine Production: A Longitudinal Biocultural Approach	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicinal Plant Hub	Embodied Pathways: Indigenous Hunting and Ecological Aesthetics in Southern Taiwan’s Central Highlands	A waka recovered - data sovereignty and traditional Moriori knowledge in an archaeological investigation
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation	Pathways to Aboriginal medicine commercialisation	In-situ plant conservation for traditional foods in the South Pacific; the risks and rewards.	Dingoes on Nyangumarta Country: A Two-Way Science Approach to research and management	Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for intercontinental TEK transfer
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Batavia Downs	Transitioning Social-Ecological Governance in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge after the Peace Accord.	Beyond Names: Collaborative Identification Methods in an Eastern Indonesian Community	Relational ontologies and weaving of knowledge to cope with climate change in Melanesia?	Re-centering Indigenous Sovereignty in Herbarium Practice: An Indigenous-led Consent Pathway from Kakadu National Park
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	The project’s governance and ethics systems	The Price of Silence: How Excluding Indigenous Knowledge Undermines Conservation Outcomes and Local Well-Being	Plant Use in the Channel Country: Community-led Ethnobotany on Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland	Climate Change and Health Sector Response in Nepal: Analyzing Policy Gaps	Kaytetye plants and animals: weaving music, kinship and country in central Australian Ethnobiology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Session Summary and Discussion	Checkboxes and Checkbooks: Biocultural Conservation Goes Mainstream	Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Medicinal Plant Diversity of Swat Pakistan: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Therapeutic Innovations	Tracking Change Together: Emerging Themes on Caribou Health and Environment through Indigenous Science	Weaving Knowledge: Community Knowledge Guiding, Evidence-Based Conservation in the Torres Strait
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Agriculture / Industries CHAIR: Susanne Schmidt	60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Education	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (2) CHAIR: Phurpa Wangchuk	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two Way Science Rangers and Researchers (2) SESSION CHAIR: Lorna Ngugi
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Scale-dependent spatial patterning and Indigenous-informed site selection of Tephrosia varians in a northern Australian savanna		Tejiendo Mundos: Ethnoecology in the Construction of an Intercultural Environmental Education	Anti-inflammatory drug lead molecules from Australian Wet Tropics montane plant	Integrating Indigenous wisdom to shape institutional practices and marine governance
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM		60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ngurra, Ninti and Yiwarra Martuku – Kujunkarrinyjangka: Indigenous Approaches for Ranger, Ecological and Social Work
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	A Blockchain solution to Traditional Ownership Security and Product Provenance in the Australian Bushfood Industry		Opening paths, Pewecxanxi: Recognizing the territory to learn in nature like own education	Āhuatanga (cultural characterization); conservation of traditional kūmara (sweetpotato) and taewa (Māori potato) varieties in Aotearoa	Safeguarding the Torres Straits ecosystem values through environmental DNA monitoring
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Integrating technology and indigenous biocultural knowledge for sustainable cultivation and cultural revitalisation of Cyperus textilis		Following the Tracks: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge through Food and Nutrition	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	“So what? We already knew this”: Cycad processing through a munangangala lens	Indigenous Cultural Use and Population Genetics of Dioscorea transversa: Setting the Stage for Biocultural Restoration
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Herbal Traditions and Biodiscovery Potential of Bhutanese and Australian Medicinal Plants		Pilina Inoa: Re-Defining Conservation in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific	Comparative study of past and present edible plants use among the Hadza in Tanzania	Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Co-Development of a Seasonal Calendar in South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM					ISE Board Meeting

	Kuranda Ballroom	Mossman Ballroom
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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)
	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	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Ethics
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Introduction to the project	Coal Mining in The Canadian Rocky Mountains: Practicing Caretaking Through Iyethka Traditional Protocol
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM	Yumbangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC)	Contextualizing Well-being in French Wine Production: A Longitudinal Biocultural Approach
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation	Pathways to Aboriginal medicine commercialisation
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Batavia Downs	Transitioning Social-Ecological Governance in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge after the Peace Accord.
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	The project’s governance and ethics systems	The Price of Silence: How Excluding Indigenous Knowledge Undermines Conservation Outcomes and Local Well-Being
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Session Summary and Discussion	Checkboxes and Checkbooks: Biocultural Conservation Goes Mainstream
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Agriculture / Industries CHAIR: Susanne Schmidt	60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Scale-dependent spatial patterning and Indigenous-informed site selection of Tephrosia varians in a northern Australian savanna
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM		60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ngurra, Ninti and Yiwarra Martuku – Kujunkarrinyjangka: Indigenous Approaches for Ranger, Ecological and Social Work
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	Integrating technology and indigenous biocultural knowledge for sustainable cultivation and cultural revitalisation of Cyperus textilis
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Pili kau, pili ho‘oilo: Plant–plant facilitation in Indigenous Hawaiian agroforest restoration
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Herbal Traditions and Biodiscovery Potential of Bhutanese and Australian Medicinal Plants
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

	Tully 1	Tully 2
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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 (1) CHAIR: Marlize Bekker	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science – Rangers and Researchers (1) Chair: Noel Preece
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	In-situ plant conservation for traditional foods in the South Pacific; the risks and rewards.	Dingoes on Nyangumarta Country: A Two-Way Science Approach to research and management
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Beyond Names: Collaborative Identification Methods in an Eastern Indonesian Community	Relational ontologies and weaving of knowledge to cope with climate change in Melanesia?
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Plant Use in the Channel Country: Community-led Ethnobotany on Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland	Climate Change and Health Sector Response in Nepal: Analyzing Policy Gaps
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Medicinal Plant Diversity of Swat Pakistan: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Therapeutic Innovations	Tracking Change Together: Emerging Themes on Caribou Health and Environment through Indigenous Science
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Education	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants (2) CHAIR: Phurpa Wangchuk
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Tejiendo Mundos: Ethnoecology in the Construction of an Intercultural Environmental Education	Anti-inflammatory drug lead molecules from Australian Wet Tropics montane plant
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Opening paths, Pewecxanxi: Recognizing the territory to learn in nature like own education	Āhuatanga (cultural characterization); conservation of traditional kūmara (sweetpotato) and taewa (Māori potato) varieties in Aotearoa
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Following the Tracks: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge through Food and Nutrition	Emotions through Foraging Plants and the Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge in the Kerama Islands, Japan
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Entanglement and Contagion: Ecological Knowledge, Cultural Narratives, and the Disappearance of Bats from New England	“So what? We already knew this”: Cycad processing through a munangangala lens
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Pilina Inoa: Re-Defining Conservation in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific	Comparative study of past and present edible plants use among the Hadza in Tanzania
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

	Tully 3
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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	45 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Mayi and medicines: Bush foods plants from Martu desert country to share, prepare and try
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Intellectual Property and Database
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Vanishing Voices: Tribal Youth and the Decline of Traditional Knowledge in Rajasthan
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	Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for intercontinental TEK transfer
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	Kaytetye plants and animals: weaving music, kinship and country in central Australian Ethnobiology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Weaving Knowledge: Community Knowledge Guiding, Evidence-Based Conservation in the Torres Strait
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two Way Science Rangers and Researchers (2) SESSION CHAIR: Lorna Ngugi
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Integrating Indigenous wisdom to shape institutional practices and marine governance
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Co-Development of a Seasonal Calendar in South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	ISE Board Meeting

	Kuranda Ballroom
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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)
	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 Downs
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: Agriculture / Industries CHAIR: Susanne Schmidt
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Scale-dependent spatial patterning and Indigenous-informed site selection of Tephrosia varians in a northern Australian savanna
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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	Integrating technology and indigenous biocultural knowledge for sustainable cultivation and cultural revitalisation of Cyperus textilis
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Pili kau, pili ho‘oilo: Plant–plant facilitation in Indigenous Hawaiian agroforest restoration
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Herbal Traditions and Biodiscovery Potential of Bhutanese and Australian Medicinal Plants
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

	Mossman Ballroom
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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	Contextualizing Well-being in French Wine Production: A Longitudinal Biocultural Approach
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Pathways to Aboriginal medicine commercialisation
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Transitioning Social-Ecological Governance in the Amazon: Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge after the Peace Accord.
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	Checkboxes and Checkbooks: Biocultural Conservation Goes Mainstream
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Ngurra, Ninti and Yiwarra Martuku – Kujunkarrinyjangka: Indigenous Approaches for Ranger, Ecological and Social Work
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

	Tully 1
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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 (1) 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	In-situ plant conservation for traditional foods in the South Pacific; the risks and rewards.
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Beyond Names: Collaborative Identification Methods in an Eastern Indonesian Community
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Plant Use in the Channel Country: Community-led Ethnobotany on Mithaka Country, southwest Queensland
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Ethnobotanical Wisdom and Medicinal Plant Diversity of Swat Pakistan: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Therapeutic Innovations
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Education
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Tejiendo Mundos: Ethnoecology in the Construction of an Intercultural Environmental Education
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Opening paths, Pewecxanxi: Recognizing the territory to learn in nature like own education
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Following the Tracks: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge through Food and Nutrition
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Entanglement and Contagion: Ecological Knowledge, Cultural Narratives, and the Disappearance of Bats from New England
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Pilina Inoa: Re-Defining Conservation in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

	Tully 2
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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 (1) Chair: Noel Preece
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 (2) CHAIR: Phurpa Wangchuk
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Anti-inflammatory drug lead molecules from Australian Wet Tropics montane plant
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Āhuatanga (cultural characterization); conservation of traditional kūmara (sweetpotato) and taewa (Māori potato) varieties in Aotearoa
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	“So what? We already knew this”: Cycad processing through a munangangala lens
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Comparative study of past and present edible plants use among the Hadza in Tanzania
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

	Tully 3
	MONDAY 27 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	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	45 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Mayi and medicines: Bush foods plants from Martu desert country to share, prepare and try
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Intellectual Property and Database
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Vanishing Voices: Tribal Youth and the Decline of Traditional Knowledge in Rajasthan
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	Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for intercontinental TEK transfer
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	Kaytetye plants and animals: weaving music, kinship and country in central Australian Ethnobiology
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Weaving Knowledge: Community Knowledge Guiding, Evidence-Based Conservation in the Torres Strait
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon tea (Monday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two Way Science Rangers and Researchers (2) SESSION CHAIR: Lorna Ngugi
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Integrating Indigenous wisdom to shape institutional practices and marine governance
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Co-Development of a Seasonal Calendar in South Fly District, Papua New Guinea
	Networking Event - POSTER VIEWING
5:00 PM - 5:45 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
	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
	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 ?
	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
	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
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	ISE Board Meeting

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

	Kuranda Ballroom	Mossman Ballroom	Tully 1	Tully 3
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Rooted in Islands, Connected Across Oceans: Building Networks to Support Biocultural Research in the Pacific Facilitators: Gary Holton, Alexander Mawyer, Tamara Ticktin, Kawika Winter, Rachel Dacks & Aimee Sato, from the Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific.	90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Can we produce a framework for an international Red List of Biocultural Systems? Theme: Ethics Facilitator: A/Prof Emilie Ens	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
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 (3)	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social	Edible and Medicinal Plants (3) 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	Land and Water as Essential Foundations for Healing Criminalized and Carceral Trauma: Indigenous Land-based Healing	Holistic Analysis of a Traditional Aboriginal Medicine to Support Commercial Development
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	‘Whare Atua’ – Endemic Psychoactive Fungi as Taonga: An Ethnomycological Perspective from Aotearoa	Indigenous Science in Ecological Sustainability: How Malawian Indigenous communities have contributed to biodiversity conservation	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	In honour of Aboriginal Teachers and Dreams: Reflections from 40 years as an Australian ethnoecologist	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	Nature’s Arsenal Against Liver Cancer: Phytochemicals in HCC Therapy
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Building abundance: indigenous stewardship practices foster sustainable wild-plant harvest and inform conservation policies	Ethnobiology in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot: Eucalypts in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region	Biocultural traits as indicators of relationships between elasmobranchs and small-scale fishers	Singing Forests, Healing Fungi: Edible and Medicinal Fungal Knowledge and Miombo Women's Stewardship
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM				60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Human-bats interactions in Austronesian contexts: An interface between Indigenous knowledge and ecology
	90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Connecting museum and herbarium collections to Country (Convened by Elycia Wallis)		90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Ethics): Eleanor Sterling: A Legacy of Cooperation in Science (Convened by Sophie Cailon and Rachel Dacks)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM		90 MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethnobiology Phase VI: Are We There Yet? FACILITATED BY Vitor Renck PANEL MEMBERS: Vitor Renc, Janelle Baker
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM	Introduction		Eleanor J. Sterling, a weaver of connections
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Reconnecting Botanical Specimens to Country		Eleanor J. Sterling’s wide ranging contributions to science
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Biocultural Knowledge at the National Herbarium of Victoria		The Biocultural Lens on Melanesian Wellbeing: A Tribute to Eleanor Sterling
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Surfacing Connections to Country through Biodiversity Research Infrastructures		Following in Eleanor Sterling’s example as the inaugural AMNH Sterling Fellow
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Building connections and Indigenous data governance around national biological collections		Restor(y)ing "lahui" to empower Indigenous-led conservation in Hawai'i
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Interactive Discussion
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Kuranda Ballroom	Mossman Ballroom
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Rooted in Islands, Connected Across Oceans: Building Networks to Support Biocultural Research in the Pacific Facilitators: Gary Holton, Alexander Mawyer, Tamara Ticktin, Kawika Winter, Rachel Dacks & Aimee Sato, from the Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific.	90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Can we produce a framework for an international Red List of Biocultural Systems? Theme: Ethics Facilitator: A/Prof Emilie Ens
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 (3)
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	Indigenous Science in Ecological Sustainability: How Malawian Indigenous communities have contributed to biodiversity conservation
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	Building abundance: indigenous stewardship practices foster sustainable wild-plant harvest and inform conservation policies	Ethnobiology in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot: Eucalypts in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
	90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Connecting museum and herbarium collections to Country (Convened by Elycia Wallis)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM		90 MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethnobiology Phase VI: Are We There Yet? FACILITATED BY Vitor Renck PANEL MEMBERS: Vitor Renc, Janelle Baker
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM	Introduction
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Reconnecting Botanical Specimens to Country
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Biocultural Knowledge at the National Herbarium of Victoria
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Surfacing Connections to Country through Biodiversity Research Infrastructures
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Building connections and Indigenous data governance around national biological collections
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Interactive Discussion
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Tully 1	Tully 3
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
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
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Tuesday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Social	Edible and Medicinal Plants (3) 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	Land and Water as Essential Foundations for Healing Criminalized and Carceral Trauma: Indigenous Land-based Healing	Holistic Analysis of a Traditional Aboriginal Medicine to Support Commercial Development
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	In honour of Aboriginal Teachers and Dreams: Reflections from 40 years as an Australian ethnoecologist	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	Nature’s Arsenal Against Liver Cancer: Phytochemicals in HCC Therapy
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Biocultural traits as indicators of relationships between elasmobranchs and small-scale fishers	Singing Forests, Healing Fungi: Edible and Medicinal Fungal Knowledge and Miombo Women's Stewardship
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM		60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Human-bats interactions in Austronesian contexts: An interface between Indigenous knowledge and ecology
	90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Ethics): Eleanor Sterling: A Legacy of Cooperation in Science (Convened by Sophie Cailon and Rachel Dacks)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM	Eleanor J. Sterling, a weaver of connections
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Eleanor J. Sterling’s wide ranging contributions to science
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	The Biocultural Lens on Melanesian Wellbeing: A Tribute to Eleanor Sterling
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Following in Eleanor Sterling’s example as the inaugural AMNH Sterling Fellow
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Restor(y)ing "lahui" to empower Indigenous-led conservation in Hawai'i
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Tully 2
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 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 - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Kuranda Ballroom
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Rooted in Islands, Connected Across Oceans: Building Networks to Support Biocultural Research in the Pacific Facilitators: Gary Holton, Alexander Mawyer, Tamara Ticktin, Kawika Winter, Rachel Dacks & Aimee Sato, from the Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific.
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	Building abundance: indigenous stewardship practices foster sustainable wild-plant harvest and inform conservation policies
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
	90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION - Connecting museum and herbarium collections to Country (Convened by Elycia Wallis)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM	Introduction
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Reconnecting Botanical Specimens to Country
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Biocultural Knowledge at the National Herbarium of Victoria
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Surfacing Connections to Country through Biodiversity Research Infrastructures
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Building connections and Indigenous data governance around national biological collections
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Interactive Discussion
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Mossman Ballroom
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	90 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Can we produce a framework for an international Red List of Biocultural Systems? Theme: Ethics Facilitator: A/Prof Emilie Ens
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Tuesday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Two-Way Science - Rangers and Researchers (3)
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	Indigenous Science in Ecological Sustainability: How Malawian Indigenous communities have contributed to biodiversity conservation
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 - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	90 MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethnobiology Phase VI: Are We There Yet? FACILITATED BY Vitor Renck PANEL MEMBERS: Vitor Renc, Janelle Baker
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Tully 1
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - Weaving Digital and Territorial Defense: Synergies for Biocultural Diversity? Theme: Ethics Facilitator: Constanza Monterrubio-Solis
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	Land and Water as Essential Foundations for Healing Criminalized and Carceral Trauma: Indigenous Land-based Healing
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	In honour of Aboriginal Teachers and Dreams: Reflections from 40 years as an Australian ethnoecologist
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	Biocultural traits as indicators of relationships between elasmobranchs and small-scale fishers
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
	90 MINUTE THEMED SESSION (Ethics): Eleanor Sterling: A Legacy of Cooperation in Science (Convened by Sophie Cailon and Rachel Dacks)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM	Eleanor J. Sterling, a weaver of connections
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM	Eleanor J. Sterling’s wide ranging contributions to science
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	The Biocultural Lens on Melanesian Wellbeing: A Tribute to Eleanor Sterling
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Following in Eleanor Sterling’s example as the inaugural AMNH Sterling Fellow
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Restor(y)ing "lahui" to empower Indigenous-led conservation in Hawai'i
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Tully 3
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	90 MINUTE WORKSHOP - A Cross-Cultural Fishing Technology Workshop Inspired by Taiwanese Indigenous Fata’an Amis' Water Culture
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Tuesday)
	Edible and Medicinal Plants (3) 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	Holistic Analysis of a Traditional Aboriginal Medicine to Support Commercial Development
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	Nature’s Arsenal Against Liver Cancer: Phytochemicals in HCC Therapy
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Singing Forests, Healing Fungi: Edible and Medicinal Fungal Knowledge and Miombo Women's Stewardship
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Human-bats interactions in Austronesian contexts: An interface between Indigenous knowledge and ecology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

	Tully 2
	TUESDAY 28 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
	TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION CHAIR: Noel Preece
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Keynote Presentation: The Authority of Land: Reading the Living World in an Age of Limits
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Presentation, Barry Hunter, NAILSMA
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Morning Tea (Tuesday)
11:00 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 - 3:30 PM	Afternoon Tea (Tuesday)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:31 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
6:15 PM - 11:15 PM	Congress Dinner (Optional: additional cost applies)

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

	Kuranda Ballroom	Mossman Ballroom	Tully 1	Tully 3
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM			ISE General Assembly 2026
	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: Edible and Medicinal Plants (4) CHAIR: Tron Tran
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Ancient Fire, New Pathways: Expanding Cultural Burning across NSW		Folk Classification and Morphological Diversity of Local Mangoes in Northwestern Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM		45 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Martu knowledge leads an international science debate about linyji (fairy circles) and learning across generations
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM				60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rooted Transformations of People and Nature: Co-evolving Values, Knowledge and Governance in Complex Adjacent Systems
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	Wild Food Plant Foraging in the World’s Highest Karakorum Mountains; A Generational Perspective		Honouring Heritage: Recognising History of Use in the Safety Evaluation of Traditionally Used Plants
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation in northern Canada		Provenance, Authentication, and Functional Standardisation of Pittosporum angustifolium (Gumbi Gumbi)
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Investigating the in vitro anticancer potential and phytochemical constituents of Cheilanthes hirta Swartz. extracts		Target Identification of Traditional Aboriginal Medicines
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM		45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Holim Pas Tok Ples: Facilitating community interventions and innovations to strengthen transmission of Indigenous language
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	Dugong Connections – Enhancing Knowledge Exchange and Conservation Across the Great Barrier Reef		Antimalarial Activity from Unstudied Indonesian Medicinal Plants
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM				30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - The Ogiek Knowledge On Medicinal Plants
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	A fading botanical heritage: The role of edible wild grasses in traditional African food systems		Reclaiming traditional knowledge; promoting food security in Tanna Island, Vanuatu
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Of Farmers, Herders and Mountains		ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants / Biocultural Knowledge and Tourism CHAIR: Sarfaraz Ali
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Comparative Ethnoecological Knowledge of Farmers and Herders on Pests and Parasites in Central Europe		Conciliating people and biodiversity: can community-managed forests benefit both?
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Lets yarn about the sharing and governance of Indigenous data		60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Following the Tracks: The art of teaching about food and culture
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM	From Planting to Home: Cultural Healing and Ethnobiological Resilience among Indigenous Communities in Taiwan		Testing the Ecological Apparency Hypothesis: Ethnobotanical Evidence from Tropical Dry Forests of Madagascar
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Agricultural Policy, Fruit Tree Adoption, and Environmental Risk Among Smallholders in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco		Biocultural Resilience through Time and Space in Southern Vanuatu
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	From Mountains to Museums: Revitalizing Bunun Leather Tanning and Knowledge Sovereignty in Taiwan		Ulana i Ka Pala Lauhala: Weaving ʻIke Kupuna to Restore Hala in Hawaiʻi
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Changing and diverging relationships between people and wild animals among the Malo, southwestern Ethiopia		Beyond Tourism and Heritage Protection: Towards Integrated Ainu-Led Land Stewardship in Hokkaido, Japan
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM		30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Gadji Gadji Garden - creating a safe space for language and knowledge regrowth and sharing		30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE / CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Marking Indigenous Stewardship: Making Iyethka Traditional Eagle Staffs for Land-Based Reconciliation
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Collecting fragmented local knowledge, connecting generations: 25 years of a culinary group in Northern Japan		Social and ecological outcomes of biocultural restoration of an agroforestry system in Heʻeia, Oʻahu
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Kuranda Ballroom	Mossman Ballroom
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
	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	Ancient Fire, New Pathways: Expanding Cultural Burning across NSW
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM		45 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Martu knowledge leads an international science debate about linyji (fairy circles) and learning across generations
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	An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation in northern Canada
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Investigating the in vitro anticancer potential and phytochemical constituents of Cheilanthes hirta Swartz. extracts
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM		45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Holim Pas Tok Ples: Facilitating community interventions and innovations to strengthen transmission of Indigenous language
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	Dugong Connections – Enhancing Knowledge Exchange and Conservation Across the Great Barrier Reef
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	A fading botanical heritage: The role of edible wild grasses in traditional African food systems
12:30 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
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Lets yarn about the sharing and governance of Indigenous data
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
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM		30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Gadji Gadji Garden - creating a safe space for language and knowledge regrowth and sharing
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	ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Tully 1	Tully 3
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	ISE General Assembly 2026
	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 (4) CHAIR: Tron Tran
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Folk Classification and Morphological Diversity of Local Mangoes in Northwestern Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM		60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rooted Transformations of People and Nature: Co-evolving Values, Knowledge and Governance in Complex Adjacent Systems
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	Provenance, Authentication, and Functional Standardisation of Pittosporum angustifolium (Gumbi Gumbi)
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Target Identification of Traditional Aboriginal Medicines
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	Antimalarial Activity from Unstudied Indonesian Medicinal Plants
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM		30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - The Ogiek Knowledge On Medicinal Plants
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	Reclaiming traditional knowledge; promoting food security in Tanna Island, Vanuatu
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants / Biocultural Knowledge and Tourism CHAIR: Sarfaraz Ali
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Conciliating people and biodiversity: can community-managed forests benefit both?
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM		60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Following the Tracks: The art of teaching about food and culture
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	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
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM		30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE / CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Marking Indigenous Stewardship: Making Iyethka Traditional Eagle Staffs for Land-Based Reconciliation
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Social and ecological outcomes of biocultural restoration of an agroforestry system in Heʻeia, Oʻahu
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Tully 2
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
	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 - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 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
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Kuranda Ballroom
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
	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	Ancient Fire, New Pathways: Expanding Cultural Burning across NSW
11:00 AM - 11:45 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	An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation in northern Canada
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Investigating the in vitro anticancer potential and phytochemical constituents of Cheilanthes hirta Swartz. extracts
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	Dugong Connections – Enhancing Knowledge Exchange and Conservation Across the Great Barrier Reef
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	A fading botanical heritage: The role of edible wild grasses in traditional African food systems
12:30 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
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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	ISE 2026 CLOSING SESSION
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Mossman Ballroom
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
	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 - 11:45 AM	45 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Martu knowledge leads an international science debate about linyji (fairy circles) and learning across generations
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	45 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Holim Pas Tok Ples: Facilitating community interventions and innovations to strengthen transmission of Indigenous language
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Lets yarn about the sharing and governance of Indigenous data
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Gadji Gadji Garden - creating a safe space for language and knowledge regrowth and sharing
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Tully 1
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	ISE General Assembly 2026
	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 (4) CHAIR: Tron Tran
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Folk Classification and Morphological Diversity of Local Mangoes in Northwestern Madagascar
11:00 AM - 11:45 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	Provenance, Authentication, and Functional Standardisation of Pittosporum angustifolium (Gumbi Gumbi)
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Target Identification of Traditional Aboriginal Medicines
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	Antimalarial Activity from Unstudied Indonesian Medicinal Plants
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM	Reclaiming traditional knowledge; promoting food security in Tanna Island, Vanuatu
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)
	ORAL PRESENTATIONS: Edible and Medicinal Plants / Biocultural Knowledge and Tourism CHAIR: Sarfaraz Ali
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM	Conciliating people and biodiversity: can community-managed forests benefit both?
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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	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
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Social and ecological outcomes of biocultural restoration of an agroforestry system in Heʻeia, Oʻahu
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Tully 3
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
	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 - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	60 MINUTE DISCUSSION SESSION - Rooted Transformations of People and Nature: Co-evolving Values, Knowledge and Governance in Complex Adjacent Systems
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	30 MINUTE CULTURAL ACTIVITY - The Ogiek Knowledge On Medicinal Plants
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	60 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE - Following the Tracks: The art of teaching about food and culture
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	30 MINUTE YARNING CIRCLE / CULTURAL ACTIVITY - Marking Indigenous Stewardship: Making Iyethka Traditional Eagle Staffs for Land-Based Reconciliation
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

	Tully 2
	WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026 – Pullman Cairns International
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
	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 - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch (Wednesday)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 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
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Afternoon tea (Wednesday)

Thursday, July 30, 2026

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 1	Track 2
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 3	Track 4
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 5
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 1
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 2
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 3
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 4
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.

	Track 5
	THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026 – Field Trips (optional)
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM	Field Trip - Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel Outer Reef Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$225 per person. Boarding at 8:15am from Marlin Marina, Cairns Reef Fleet Terminal. Vessel departs at 9am. 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
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Field Trip - Green Island Discovery Tour (Thursday 30 July) AUD$135 per person Meet at The Reef Fleet Terminal building – 1 Spence Street, Cairns Marlin Marina at 10am. 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.