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Wild 12 – 1 2 TH W O R L D W I L D E R N ESS CONGRESS – Rapid City, SD
August 25 @ 5:00 pm - August 31 @ 5:30 pm
Wild 12 – The 12th World Wilderness Congress, held in Rapid City, both at the Dahl and the “Monument (Civic Center)”
here’s the link for the event: https://wild.org/wild12/
To download document with information on speakers and schedule (the schedule is on page 18-31)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bl83-tt0Hc7v6-FVeNeQBMPQ56fw78Fg/view
It starts on Sunday the 25th of August at 5 pm and ends at Saturday evening on the 31st of August at 5:30 pm.
Saturday 8/31/24 is at Fine Arts Theater of the Monument (Civic Center) 8-5:30 pm and “delegates reconvene to vote on/adopt WILD12’s resolutions and set the global wilderness conservation agenda for the next 4-5 years.”
Events are at both “the Monument” (Rapid City’s Civic Center) and at the Dahl Fine Arts Center, you need to check out the schedule to view all the events, times and locations.
A quote from the announcement of event:
“This Congress was convened at the invitation of Philimon Two Eagle. In October 2022, he spoke on behalf of the Oceti Sakowin and asked WILD to “bring the world to the Black Hills so that they can listen to the Lakota speak” about the interconnected burdens of environmental degradation and colonialism.
Philimon’s invitation also presented WILD and the global wilderness community with a unique opportunity to hold a sector-wide, cross-cultural, formal dialogue about the term “wilderness:” what it means to conservation and Indigenous Peoples, as well as an objective assessment of its yields, both harmful and beneficial. We embraced this challenge, consulting with numerous Indigenous Peoples who met in working groups and as appointed advisors, to better understand their approach to what conservation calls “wilderness.” What we learned is their terms encompass a far greater swath of reality and the cosmos than what wilderness, at least as it has been defined by governmental bodies, is permitted to be. Terms like Maka Sitomniya (Lakota), Ubuntu (Zulu), and Whanaungatanga (Māori) possess meanings that not only transcend the physical world, but also stretch across time itself….”