CHANGE
How do we conserve and protect large landscapes in the context of change—from climate change, land conversion, invasive species, and biodiversity loss, to shifting social values, political and legal frameworks, and economic development?
INDIGENOUS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES
How can recognizing and upholding the culture, knowledge, and rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities globally improve collaborative wildlife conservation and management in large landscapes?
HUMAN-WILDLIFE
CONFLICT
What innovative and successful approaches, policies, and strategies—as well as lessons from past failures—can help communities manage human-wildlife conflict?
We seek additional support from foundations and donors who are interested in fostering exploration of innovative approaches to large landscape wildlife management globally, including in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. All sponsors will be recognized on the website and on materials and displays at the conference.
Our budget for this international conference is $100,000 including venue reservation, select presenter travel, student engagement and participation, and post-conference publication costs. We anticipate attendance of 150-200 participants and will collect a registration fee to help cover these expenses.
To become a sponsor please contact conference organizer Temple Stoellinger or Jacob Hochard.
In September 2023, the University of Wyoming Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources hosted a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem International Wildlife Policy Workshop.
Thirty-one interdisciplinary experts participated, including academics from the Europe, Asia, Africa, and the US as well as partners from Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming Game and Fish, and the National Wildlife Federation. This group developed the theme and agenda for the 2025 conference.
The conference will bring scholars, practitioners, and experts from around the world to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to focus on opportunities for reciprocal learning around common challenges faced by the world’s most iconic ecosystems.
Sessions will explore how to manage wildlife in large landscapes:
1) in the context of biophysical and socioeconomic change,
2) in collaboration with Indigenous and local communities,
3) to address human-wildlife conflict, and
4) across jurisdictional boundaries.
In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of North America, Indigenous Tribes, international visitors, and local residents bring varying perspectives to wolves, grizzly bears, and other charismatic wild animals.
In the Amazon Basin of South America, one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, Brazil’s government pursues economic development including agricultural production while Indigneous tribes and other stakeholders seek forest protection.
In Sápmi of Scandinavia, the Sami Tribe holds autonomy over lands where they have grazed reindeer for thousands of years and now face impacts of climate change.
On the veldt of southern Africa, local herders graze livestock for dietary and economic needs in the shadow of lions and other wild animals that attract both poachers and tourists.
In the European Alps, a landscape heavily managed by people for thousands of years, new research is clarifying the role of predators in containing wild ungulate populations to both limit overgrazing of fragile ecosystems and allow for hunting opportunities.
In Mongolia’s vast Gobi Desert and adjacent Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, extremely rare brown bears and snow leopards eke out a living in a spare landscape increasingly hemmed in by mining and railway development.
Managing Wildlife in Large Landscapes is hosted by the University of Wyoming Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, advancing the understanding and resolution of complex environment and natural resource
challenges through collaborative, interdisciplinary education, research, and stakeholder
engagement.
Temple Stoellinger
Associate Professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair, University of Wyoming; Associate
Dean, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources; Co-Director, Gina Guy Center
for Land and Water Law, College of Law
307-766-6450 | tstoelli@uwyo.edu
Jacob Hochard
Knobloch Associate Professor of Conservation Economics, University of Wyoming; Haub
School of Environment and Natural Resources
307-766-5080 | JHochard@uwyo.ed
