Center for Integrative Conservation Research

 

The Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR) inspires new visions for conservation and environmental decision-making by putting pluralism into practice.

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Upcoming event
Register now for ICC 2026!

The 2026 Integrative Conservation Conference will be held at UGA on February 27-28. With this year’s theme of “Centering Community,” we hope to foster spaces where we can engage with the varied human, more-than-human, and beyond-human communities.

The 2026 Integrative Conservation Conference will be held at UGA on February 27-28. With this year’s theme of “Centering Community,” we hope to foster spaces where we can engage with the varied human, more-than-human, and beyond-human communities.

The 2026 Integrative Conservation Conference will be held at UGA on February 27-28.
With this year’s theme of “Centering Community,” we hope to foster spaces where we can engage with the varied human, more-than-human, and beyond-human communities.

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EBCI collab
ICON 8002 Practicum:
New Iterations of the ICON-EBCI Partnership

We are excited to continue our monthly CICR Reading Club series, hosted this Fall 2023 in partnership with the Institute for Native American Studies. Our goal is to have a conversation as a community around a set of shared readings, while exploring new paths forward for conservation.

Through this collaboration, students will explore EBCI cultural burning and the ecological consequences of the suppression of cultural burning

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Upcoming event
ICON PHOTOVOICES

Through the ICON ‘PhotoVoices’ initiative, we aim to engage with the Photovoice method to learn from and share with each other as a community

Through the ICON ‘PhotoVoices’ initiative, we aim to engage with the Photovoice method to learn from and share with each other as a community

Through the ICON ‘PhotoVoices’ initiative, we aim to engage with the Photovoice method to learn from and share with each other as a community

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ICON Photovoices Accepting Submissions

ICON Photovoices Accepting Submissions

Jan 22, 2026

Photovoice is a method that combines photography, reflection, and collective engagement. Through the ICON ‘PhotoVoices’ initiative, we engage with photovoice to learn from, and share with each other as a community. PhotoVoices was initiated in 2024, with the hope to...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025

Sep 25, 2025

In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, the Department of Anthropology is hosting two events: Monday, Oct. 13, 3:00-4:30 pm. The Living Forest: A Proposal for Indigenous-Led Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation. Invited talk with Tulio Viteri, the Director of...

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Upcoming Events

2026 Integrative Conservation Conference

Friday-Saturday, February 27-28
Join us for CICR's biennial conference! Details and registration are available here
University of Georgia

ICON Defense

Tuesday, March 3, 3:00 PM
“Embodied Adaptation: Community-Driven Sea Level Rise and Resilience Planning in Coastal Georgia”
Jill Gambill, ICON & Geography PhD Candidate
Geography/Geology Building, Room 0155

ICON Defense

Friday, March 6, 11:00 AM
“Borderland Relationality and Multispecies Co-flourishing: Ethical, Political, and Ecological Entanglements near the Korean Demilitarized Zone”
Shinyeong Park, ICON & Forestry and Natural Resources PhD Candidate
Warnell Building 4, Room 132

ICON Coffee Hour

Friday, March 20, 10:00-11:00 AM
Join ICON students and faculty for coffee and conversation!
Warnell 4-301

ICON Ph.D. Students

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Campus Units

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