indigenous led conservation – a critical review of traditional ecological knowledge
abstract
evaluating the importance of indigenous - based conservation with a critical
review of traditional ecological knowledge studies can provide a useful framework for
future management efforts. traditional knowledge and traditional ecological
knowledge have been used in the past few decades to collect and examine indigenous -
knowledge and ecological knowledge indigenous peoples have gained through oral
teachings and traditional practices. traditional knowledge and traditional ecological
knowledge studies are thought to be inclusive frameworks to help represent indigenous
perspectives and values, for environmental assessment and management purposes,
conservation management and environmental health studies. however, the development
and implementation of the overall traditional knowledge framework and formation of
theory, was developed through western-based perspectives and science, therefore
resulting in heavy euro-centric biases towards the topics and definitions of traditional
knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge studies. the idea and development
for a new modern and indigenous - based framework to discuss, form and collect
indigenous knowledge is both important, and necessary. to facilitate indigenous selfdetermined and - defined traditional knowledge, interviews were conducted with fort
william first nation band members to gain an understanding of the indigenous
perspective. indigenous perspectives and self-definitions help to further the
understandings of racially biased scientific protocols and to reduce these biases in
environmental and conservation management.
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