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Indigenous communities hold a huge and unique source of ecological knowledge

The district chief explaining the goal of the study to an interviewee. By her side is Roy, the guide, translator and interpreter during the work in Doussala. Credit: Clémentine Durand-Bessart A study has found that indigenous people in the rainforests of Gabon have knowledge of plant and fruit-eating animal interactions that exceeds that found in academic literature. These preliminary results will be presented at Ecology Across Borders on 13 december by Clémentine Durand-Bessart, a PhD researcher at Biogéosciences Université de Bourgogne and Centre d’Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, France.

More information on the Website of the British Ecological Society.

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The district chief explaining the goal of the study to an interviewee. By her side is Roy, the guide, translator and interpreter during the work in Doussala. Credit: Clémentine Durand-Bessart A study has found that indigenous people in the rainforests of Gabon have knowledge of plant and fruit-eating animal interactions that exceeds that found in academic literature. These preliminary results will be presented at Ecology Across Borders on 13 december by Clémentine Durand-Bessart, a PhD researcher at Biogéosciences Université de Bourgogne and Centre d’Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, France.

More information on the Website of the British Ecological Society.

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