The current climate and ecological crises have intensified debates on loss of biodiversity and more-than-human rights, and prompt a necessity to rethink our relationship with the more-than-human world. In heritage governance and preservation, the nature-culture division has long criticised, but is far-from overcome. Heritage governance have material consequences in the world, determining what is protected, how it is managed, and, in extension, what more-than-human congregations will be sustained or changed. Heritage sites are constituted through entanglements between humans, animals, land, ecological processes and cultural practices. Yet recognising these relationships does not necessarily address the ethical and political questions they raise: whose interests count in heritage governance, how are more-than-human beings represented in decision-making, and who bears the consequences of preservation and development? This paper explores how heritage preservation and governance can be reconceptualised through a multispecies justice perspective – as a moral and political act that shapes ecological relations over time. It explores these questions through an initial document analysis of Laponia, a mixed natural and cultural World Heritage site in northern Sweden.

The paper proposes that heritage governance should consider not only what values it protects, but also recognise what relationships it sustains, transforms or places at risk. In doing so, it positions entanglement not merely as a description of relational worlds, but as a starting point for investigating the ethical responsibilities of heritage preservation.

The St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary represent one of the cradles of human settlement in Eastern Canada. Their archaeological heritage is now partly threatened by coastal erosion accelerated by climate change. Managing this heritage requires difficult trade-offs between data acquisition and environmental preservation. As archaeologists cannot sustain the necessary monitoring alone, there is a growing interest in citizen science. This approach requires the development of legally compliant protocols capable of providing high-quality data while fostering community trust and engagement. This presentation compares international projects from North America and Europe where public participation contributes to documenting threatened coastal sites. It then details the methodology and preliminary results of a pilot project inspired by these global experiences and conducted in the St. Lawrence Estuary.

This paper examines village-based nature education as an emerging practice of protected area management in China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site and nearby villages in northern Sichuan, my research explores how environmental and social change in heritage landscapes is perceived and interpreted by returning villagers through pedagogical and relational practices. Living in a region known for rich biodiversity, alpine lakes, and frequent natural disasters, these self-trained educators navigate layered socio-natural histories shaped by sacred landscapes, resource extraction, displacement, and ecological recovery. Ethnographic findings show that villagers often make use of official narratives of biodiversity and natural heritage while communicating more complex environmental histories through relational and embodied practices. This paper shows how nature education becomes a key site for narrating environmental change and remaking natural heritage.

This paper addresses the gap in climate change assessments that separate nature from culture by focusing on biocultural heritage: the knowledge, practices, and traditions linking people to land and sea. It develops and tests a Climate Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) framework specifically tailored to biocultural heritage, integrating community voices with landscape-level perspectives. Grounded in vulnerability theory and a post-human research paradigm, the framework combines climate science, landscape observation, and semi-structured interviews to examine how climate pressures affect both landscapes and the biocultural practices that sustain them. The paper presents the iterative design of the framework and its application to pilot sites in Connemara, Ireland, and Snaefellsnes, Iceland; two rural regions with living cultural landscapes exposed to climate change. It argues that recognising and incorporating biocultural heritage into vulnerability assessments is essential for more inclusive and effective climate adaptation strategies.