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... It was stunning to realize that this crop diversity had been nurtured and preserved through the years solely by indigenous people.
Too often in the past the contributions of indigenous people to conservation have been ignored, or worse, belittled. Yet indigenous peoples control most of the world’s remaining natural areas, possess detailed biological information, and often have a strong conservation ethic. At a meeting in Kauai prior to the “Bridges” conference co-sponsored by the NTBG and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, scholars from Europe, Africa, South America, and Polynesia explored how indigenous myths and legends contain potent conservation information. For example, Johan Colding from Stockholm University explained that keystone species are often protected by indigenous taboos. ...
The importance of indigenous peoples to conservation was explicitly recognized in the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). ... Other than that brief mention, however, indigenous peoples and the importance of indigenous knowledge were largely ignored by the CBD, a situation which perhaps might be redressed in Rio +10.
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