Oct 5, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
summary Immaculee Namahirwe shares her journey from understanding conservation as simply protecting trees and wildlife to recognizing the interconnectedness of people and nature. She discusses her…
And I'm happy to hear that from Green Rwanda is giving the women an income, dignity and opportunity at a level playing field and driving that circular economy and ensuring that they have food on the table
Imakili, you've worked on environmental research, carbon projects, soil biodiversity, and conservation in general.
Where does the science sometimes fail to capture what people working on the ground already know?
As I worked in some carbon projects, from the research I made in soil carbon projects, It wasn't about connecting.
It wasn't more connecting people and nature due to where we were doing that research.
But actually, how people contribute to it, I may say that it's how they plant trees.
So when they plant trees, there is this interconnectedness of people and nature.
But science... doesn't talk about, doesn't focus on how people contribute to these projects, you know.
So science doesn't talk about how people contribute more to the nature, but talk about how the nature is and all of that.
And I'm happy to hear that from Green Rwanda is giving the women an income, dignity and opportunity at a level playing field and driving that circular economy and ensuring that they have food on the table
Imakili, you've worked on environmental research, carbon projects, soil biodiversity, and conservation in general.
Where does the science sometimes fail to capture what people working on the ground already know?
As I worked in some carbon projects, from the research I made in soil carbon projects, It wasn't about connecting.
It wasn't more connecting people and nature due to where we were doing that research.
But actually, how people contribute to it, I may say that it's how they plant trees.
So when they plant trees, there is this interconnectedness of people and nature.
But science... doesn't talk about, doesn't focus on how people contribute to these projects, you know.
So science doesn't talk about how people contribute more to the nature, but talk about how the nature is and all of that.
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