Conservation biology needs diversity among its practitioners to succeed.

Reshaping conservation biology practices While researching lemurs in Madagascar, Wynn-Grant witnessed a glaring problem in the practice of conservation biology. "Hawaiians have called me a sellout and a puppet of the colonizer, and there's American scientists who say I'm not a scientist", Winter says. Graph: The He'eia National Estuarine Research Reserve hosts a workshop that brought together Indigenous knowledge holders and university researchers to discuss equity in authorship. [Extracted from the article]

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