The Conversation

Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this

Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. The ...
Yahoo

Indigenous knowledge systems can be useful tools in the G20’s climate change kit

What are Indigenous knowledge systems? Indigenous knowledge systems are sets of knowledge that were developed long ago and passed down through the generations in various ways, including through ...
Mongabay

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Undisturbed peatlands act as carbon sinks and support biodiversity. Finland has drained 60% — more than 60,000 km2 (23,000 mi2) — of its peatlands, releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the ...
Mongabay

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Rangelands and the pastoralists who rely on them are an overlooked and understudied part of global conservation. Tunga Ulambayar, country director for the Zoological Society of London’s Mongolia ...