Heritage-Sensitive Forest Governance in African Contexts

This symposium brings together a transdisciplinary cohort of scholars, CIFOR-ICRAF researchers, Indigenous peoples, and local community members to analyze forest conservation policies across African ecoregions. By bridging scientific, traditional, and policy-oriented knowledge systems, we explore how legal and institutional frameworks shape - and are shaped by - community-led forest governance and non-explicit conservation ecospiritual practices.