#ethnoecology — Public Fediverse posts

Anthropogenic climate change and the extinction of Indigenous languages are projected to eliminate up to one-third of the native plant species utilized by Amazonian cultures, causing a massive decline in regional biocultural knowledge by 2080.
#Ethnobotany #Botany #Ethnoecology #Ecology #Climatology #Linguistics #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/bot07082601.html

Ethnoecology is the scientific study of how different human societies conceptualize, interact with, and manage their natural environments and the complex ecosystems within them. The primary goal of ethnoecology is to understand the dynamic, reciprocal relationships between cultural beliefs, traditional ecological knowledge, and environmental stewardship.
#Ethnoecology #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/cat06162602.html

Environmental stewardship encompasses the reciprocal relationships, intentional practices, and ancestral knowledge of Indigenous and local communities used to manage and protect the natural environment. Integrating these practices into scientific and political frameworks aims to achieve more inclusive, socially just, and effective nature conservation.
#Conservation #Environmental #Anthropology #Ethnoecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/con05202601.html

Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees

Pre-colonial dispersal of Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and Black Bean trees (Castanospermum australe) by Indigenous Peoples. "Unpicking the deeper past using First Nations lore and genetic analysis is a promising combination to shed light on domestication. Indigenous movement of plants worked to domesticate landscapes. That is, social and cultural preferences of ancestral groups drove ecological transformations which seem, at first glance, to be natural."
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https://theconversation.com/walking-the-trees-we-traced-how-first-nations-groups-moved-bunya-pine-and-black-bean-trees-229914
#IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #flora #botany #trees #bunya #translocation #landscape #domestication #food #ethnoecology