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Our own experiences, echoed in discussions with peers, suggest key concepts and ethical considerations can be absent from conservation training (e.g. conservation's history and evolution, relational values, positionality, intersectionality, power dynamics, gatekeeping), leaving us under-prepared to tackle the extremely complex conservation challenges the world faces (Bennett et al., 2017; Catalano et al., 2019; Raatikainen et al., 2021; Williams et al., 2020). A further consequence of the colonial influence on conservation is that non-white conservation figures have largely been written out of conservation's history, while white Western conservationists have become celebrated household names (Das & Lowe, 2018; Garland, 2008; Sebunya, 2017). Land, 9, 11 - 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9030065 60 Downey, H., Amano, T., Cadotte, M., Cook, C. N., Cooke, S. J., Haddaway, N. R., Jones, J. P. G., Littlewood, N., Walsh, J. C., Akasaka, M., Alves, J. A., Antwis, R. E., Arellano, E. C., Axmacher, J., Barclay, H., Batty, L., Benítez-López, A., Bennett, J. R., Berg, M. J., ... Usieta, H. O. (2021). Keywords: fairer conservation; inclusivity; equality; early-career researchers; research ethics; reflexivity EN fairer conservation inclusivity equality early-career researchers research ethics reflexivity 612 626 15 06/10/22 20220601 NES 220601 Positionality Statement We are eight women of European, Brazilian and Chinese ethnicity and, at the time of writing, are in our final doctoral year working at UK conservation and academic institutions. This not only fails to represent many who have been a part of conservation's history, but can also alienate audiences, discourage diverse participation in conservation and hinder positive conservation outcomes (Das & Lowe, 2018; Jacobs, 2020; Margules et al., 2020). [Extracted from the article]