Tag: traditional ecological knowledge

In the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland, Inuit have told stories for centuries of polar bears using rocks and blocks of ice to bludgeon walruses to death. Naturalists discounted such...

It started out as an international collaborative effort to track the potential effects of future oil and gas development on a large, migratory caribou population. But a decade worth of...

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Inuit harpooners are helping researchers get close enough to narwhals to record their calls and observe their behavior. Narwhals (Monodon Monoceros) are skittish around humans, which makes it difficult for...

Wildlife Services in Wisconsin recently benefited from a unique wolf symposium sponsored primarily by the Mashkiiziibil — the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa — as well as other...

Wildlife professionals have for years recognized the value of indigenous perspectives on conservation, but it can be difficult to conduct wildlife research while incorporating indigenous knowledge in a culturally sensitive...

If you look at a map of the city of Albuquerque and surrounding areas, you would likely notice the multiple Native American reservations that dot the landscape north and south...

At sunset on a steep, north-facing slope at 7,500 feet, research assistants Chase Voirin (Navajo) and Elisha Flores (Hoopa) stood among massive Douglas-fir trees imitating the four-note territorial call of...