November 20 at 1:00 am Universal Coordinated Time, which is:

5pm Pacific US (Nov 19th), 8pm Eastern (19th), 10pm Sao Paulo (19th), 2am Paris, 3am Johannesburg, 6:30am Delhi, 9am in Perth, 10am Tokyo, and 12pm noon in Sydney

Wildlife rehabilitation is often framed around temporary care, successful release, public education, and reducing human-caused harm. Indigenous wildlife stewardship can expand this framework by asking deeper questions about relationship, reciprocity, place, responsibility, and sovereignty. This talk will explore what wildlife rehabilitators and adjacent wildlife professionals can learn from Indigenous approaches to wildlife care and conservation, while offering practical guidance for engaging respectfully with Tribal Nations and Indigenous knowledge systems. Drawing from two-eyed seeing, Tribal wildlife stewardship, and examples from wildlife research and field medicine, Avery Tilley will discuss how rehabilitators can move beyond good intentions toward more reciprocal, accountable, and culturally grounded wildlife work.

Avery Tilley is a final-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student at the University of Georgia with a focus on conservation medicine. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a proud Indigenous scientist passionate about conservation through the lens of wildlife disease and Indigenous knowledge. His work focuses on collaborative, reciprocal wildlife health research with Tribal Nations. Tilley was named an inaugural Braveheart Fellow by the Center for Native American Youth, a Darwin 200 Leader, and a National Geographic Young Explorer. He has championed Tribal wildlife issues on national and international stages, serving as a panel moderator during the 2023 White House Tribal Youth Forum and as a delegate at the United Nations COP15 in Montreal. Tilley hopes to one day serve as a Tribal wildlife veterinarian, assisting Tribes with wildlife disease monitoring and mitigation across their historic lands.

Individuals who attend the live event for at least 3/4 of its run time will receive a Certificate of Attendance for their records, provided they attend under their own name and email address.

This event will be held in English. Live translated captions in the following languages:

Arabic | Bengali | Cantonese | Chinese (Simplified) | Chinese (Traditional) | Czech | Danish | Dutch | English | Estonian | Finnish | French (Canada) | French (France) | German | Greek | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Indonesian | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Malay | Norwegian | Persian | Polish | Portuguese (Brazil) | Portuguese (Portugal) | Romanian | Russian | Spanish | Swedish | Tagalog | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Turkish | Ukrainian | Vietnamese | Welsh

Registration closes on November 19, 2026