tilburg law review 19 (2014) 81-89 brill.com/tilr Statelessness and Conservation Exploring the Implications of an International Governance Agenda Julian Clifton Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environment and The Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia julian.clifton@uwa.edu.au Greg Acciaioli Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology University of Western Australia gregory.acciaioli@uwa.edu.au Helen Brunt Postgraduate Researcher, Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex helen.brunt@gmail.com Wolfram Dressler Associate Professor, Department of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Wageningen University w.dressler@uq.edu.au Michael Fabinyi Research Fellow, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University michael.fabinyi@jcu.edu.au Sarinda Singh Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, University of Queensland s.singh2@uq.edu.au Abstract The world’s remaining biodiversity-rich regions are often located in borderlands or physically remote areas which are frequently also inhabited by stateless peoples, who © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2014 | doi 10.1163/22112596-01902009