“Our human relationship with fire goes back thousands and thousands of years,” says Damon Panek, wildland fires operations specialist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and enrolled ...

Worldwide landscapes are changing at an unprecedented pace. Forests are cleared, wetlands drained, and ecosystems degraded by ...

The Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section, founded in 2002, works to 1) promote the understanding, dissemination and respectful use of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological research, ...

Traditional ecological knowledge involves an interaction between cultural practice, cultural belief and adaptive capacity to deal with climate impacts. Wengky Ariando, Author provided (no reuse) This ...

Land has been a central issue between Natives and non-Natives since the earliest days when European explorers first were greeted by the indigenous peoples of North America. Since then American ...

From harvesting medicines to growing food, Indigenous people are reclaiming traditional ecological knowledge that was nearly ...

Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems. Take a swim through Clear Lake, North America’s oldest (and California’s largest) ...

“We need to reintegrate Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and cultural and prescribed burning into our landscape,” Carolyn Smith says. Emily Buhrow Rogers and Carolyn Smith Carolyn Smith ...

Introduction : Understanding ecological knowledge / Charles R. Menzies and Caroline Butler -- Tidal pulse fishing : selective traditional Tlingit salmon fishing techniques on the west coast of the ...

By Laila Shaaban “Al Dhiwaini!” HRH the Prince of Jazan called in the traditional way that spurred hundreds of people to sprint toward the water, carrying around nets and shouting. Standing on the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Knowledge of Caribbean ethnobotany has so far been limited and little comprehensive island- or region-wide inventories of Caribbean traditional ...

August 17, 2022 — On a cool March day with low humidity and very little wind, Ali Meders-Knight did something that hadn’t been done in her city in over a century when she lit fire to deergrass for a ...