ZSL #023 Indigenous knowledge and conservation management: challenges and opportunities

18/10/2019 45 min Episodio 23
ZSL #023 Indigenous knowledge and conservation management: challenges and opportunities

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Episode Synopsis

Indigenous communities around the world possess an extremely rich body of knowledge about local environmental resources and biodiversity, which has the potential to be an invaluable conservation tool. However, this local ecological knowledge is being progressively eroded worldwide. Hear Monni and a diverse panel of experts discuss the challenges and opportunities for incorporating indigenous knowledge into conservation management. How can social science help? And why should more trees be ordained as monks? *Listener note: we apologise for the variety in sound quality on this episode, we experienced some technical issues during recording.

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