Karin Gerhardt is currently completing her PhD on a collaborative project with Yuku Baja Muliku Traditional Owners. She works for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and has previously worked for the ...

Susan Janicki, Ph.D., Agnes Juang, Ph.D. The treaty aims to address concerns about “biopiracy,” or the use of traditional knowledge and genetic resources without consent from and benefit sharing with ...

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 ...

Seeking plants with potential medical properties, a team of researchers in Gabon looked to the practices of two distinct groups: traditional healers living on the fringes of Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou ...

MOLE LAKE, Wis. – In late August, Robert Van Zile Jr. looked out over Rice Lake with dismay. Brown spot disease had decimated this year's wild rice crop. The lake is home to the last remaining wild ...

Guest Opinion. For my people, the Salish, when the Mission Valley on the Flathead Reservation is first blanketed with snow, a new cultural season is underway. Traditionally, winter ushers in a time ...

Borneo’s Indigenous Punan people’s centuries-old plant knowledge is fading as younger generations turn to modern medicine, and secrecy limits knowledge sharing. Two important medicinal species, Cissus ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...