For ten days, Indigenous knowledge holders from across Earth’s many rhythms have gathered—not to present papers, but to pulse together. Ovahimba. San. Penan. Piikani. Maasai. Arhuaco. Q’ero. Names that carry no institutional credentials, yet speak with the authority of land, ancestors, and songs.

Now, we open the circle.
Not to center the dominant gaze, but to invite its decentering.
Not to extract insight, but to be witnessed by systems that must be humbled.

This day is not about asking, “What can we do for Indigenous peoples?”
It is about dwelling in deeper questions:

🪶 What has modernity forgotten?
🌊 What would it mean to relate to the ocean not as a resource, but as a relative?
🪷 How might emerging technologies reflect—not override—ancestral intelligences?
🐘 What does wildlife ask of us when we listen relationally, not just strategically?

Ecology Custodianship Day is an invitation into a different way of being—into stewardship, reciprocity, and relational governance. It brings together Indigenous custodians from Namibia and across the globe with policymakers, researchers, NGOs, and industries—not at the head of the table, but in circle.
🌀 Guiding Pulse
This is not a conference.
It is a relational field—a space for listening, witnessing, and re-imagining how we steward life.