Indigenous peoples offer lessons Biodiversity Conservation

anza · Feb 28, 2012

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AT FOREFRONT OF CLIMATE CHANGE OFFER
LESSONS ON CONSERVING AND MANAGING PLANT BIODIVERSITY
Paper Highlights 40 Years of Research on Plant Use by
Indigenous Peoples In Peruvian Amazon and Tibet

Missouri Botanical Garden: NEWS RELEASE

"The Yanesha and Tibetans are dramatically different peoples living in radically dissimilar environments, but both cultures utilize and highly value plant biodiversity for their food, shelters, clothing and medicines."

Both cultures use traditional knowledge to create, manage and conserve this biodiversity, and both are learning to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, said Salick. They have much to teach and to offer the world if we can successfully learn to integrate science and traditional knowledge.
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