Journal
BIOSCIENCE
Volume 66, Issue 6, Pages 499-509Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw026
Keywords
traditional ecological knowledge; biodiversity; citizen science; conservation; transdisciplinary collaboration
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- MacArthur Foundation
- Overbrook Foundation
- Agnese Lindley Haury Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trust
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- Christensen Fund
- National Science Foundation
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT)
- Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP)
- Culturas Populares
- Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
- US Fish and Wildlife Service Sonoran Joint Venture and Wildlife Without Borders
- UC MEXUS
- Comunidad y Biodiversidad
- Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies
- Centro de Information y Desarrollo Indigena (CIAD)
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Biodiversity inventory, monitoring, and species-recovery efforts can be advanced by a dynamic collaboration of Western, citizen, and ethnoscience. Indigenous and local traditional knowledge of place-based biodiversity is perhaps the oldest scientific tradition on earth. We illustrate how an all taxa biodiversity inventory network of projects in collaboration with the Comcaac (Seri people) in northwestern Mexico is advancing not only biosystematics but also species recovery, habitat restoration, language conservation and maintenance, and the maintenance of traditional livelihoods. We encourage scientists to establish collaborations with indigenous and other place-based communities to better understand the wealth of knowledge held in local categorization systems. It is essential to not merely seek out one-to-one correspondences between Western and indigenous knowledge but also to recognize and respect the creative tensions among these different knowledge systems, because this is where the most profound insights and fruitful collaborations emerge.
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