The participation of Indigenous and local communities in this stage has been essential since they possess significant knowledge innovations and practices of their surrounding biodiversity and ...

From knowing where animals live, to which plants provide what medicinal benefits, communities around the world hold expert levels of knowledge on their local environments. In general, scientific ...

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Social, cultural and scientific practices in the twenty-first century should not be areas where local knowledge is sacrificed on the altar of Western scientific rigour, but rather spaces that ...