11/12/2025
Explore the full content of the 5 November Symposium on the State-of-the-art on Heritage-sensitive conservation policies
Watch now: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnwLmEFN-2R2Gdg1YcY5jAEzyQXJatGl2&si=FxZprHfVmmS1W9KB
Free access to the session recordings of an international symposium that successfully concluded on 5 November 2025 at Chiang Mai University.
The event brought together distinguished scholars, conservation leaders, and Indigenous practitioners to address the full recognition of Indigeneity as a powerful, relational way of knowing and stewarding the Earth. The event spoke to global conservation policy makers in a crucial moment for the forestry week happening in Chiang Mai and COP 30 starting next week.
The symposium entitled "State-of-the-art on Heritage conservation policies of Sacred Forests and Spiritual Landscapes in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot and Southeast Asia’s Terrestrial Ecoregions" took place at Chiang Mai University and involved 30 participants situated in more than 20 countries on 5 continents.
The event was organized by Dr. Alessandra Manzini of the PLACES Lab, CY Cergy Paris University under the SPIRAL project (founded by the EUTOPIA SIF alliance) and hosted by the BA Heritage Project (funded by the British Academy), led by Dr. Marco J Haenssgen at Chiang Mai University.
