{"id":40779,"date":"2020-08-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/weaving-western-and-indigenous-knowledge-together-enhances-conservation\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:00:00","slug":"weaving-western-and-indigenous-knowledge-together-enhances-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/weaving-western-and-indigenous-knowledge-together-enhances-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Weaving Western and Indigenous knowledge together enhances conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Weaving Western and Indigenous knowledge together enhances conservation<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Wildlife translocations will have better results if they are led, or genuinely co-led, by Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n

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That’s the premise of a recently published paper by researchers at the University of Canterbury and South Island environmental practitioners.<\/p>\n

Lead author Aisling Rayne says the Mi’kmaq (First Nations people of Canada) principle of Etuapmumk, or ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ is a helpful way to explain how this can work.
\n“Mi’kmaq elder Dr. Albert Marshall describes it as learning to see from one eye with Indigenous knowledge, and from the other eye, Western knowledge,” she says.
\nExperience in Aotearoa and around the world has shown that if this app<\/a>roach is used for conservation, you get better environmental and social<\/a> outcomes.
\n“If we want to achieve the best outcomes for conservation translocations\u2014both for threatened species recovery and enhancing bio-cultural resilience\u2014wildlife managers and researchers should not only be embedding Indigenous knowledge, but actually centring Indigenous knowledge, practices and processes. Ultimately that means they’re Indigenous led or co-led,” Aisling says.
\n“It’s Indigneous ways of knowing and seeing that are going to bring the most benefit, because they’ve had relationships with the natural environment far longer than we have in Western science<\/a>, and have a more holistic approach.”
\nCase studies<\/b>
\nThe team have been working to co-develop strategies to restore native wildlife at two wetlands in the South Island.
\nThese studies are weaving together genomic data and local m\u0101tauraka (M\u0101ori knowledge) to revive customary practices and inform translocation policies, to enhance resilience in k\u0113k\u0113wai (freshwater crayfish) and k\u014dwaro (Canterbury mudfish) populations.
\nPreviously, attempts have been made to translocate k\u014dwaro to one of these wetlands, but the planning didn’t take into account how the translocated fish would impact their new habitat and those involved are unsure whether it was succesful or not.
\nGood ecological data is needed to make a wildlife translocation work, which is lacking in Western science for many native freshwater fish and invertebrates.<\/p>\n

However, the local iwi K\u0101i Tahu has ecological knowledge about these areas and species, which has been passed down from their t\u016bpuna (ancestors).
\nCo-author Levi Collier-Robinson (Ng\u0101i Tahu, Ng\u0101ti Apa ki te r\u0101 t\u014d, Te Wh\u0101nau-\u0101-Apanui, Ng\u0101ti Porou) says “To ensure future translocations have the greatest chance of success, we are weaving this m\u0101tauraka into a genotype-environment association study that includes present day ecological data and whole genome resequences for k\u014dwaro across their current range.”
\n“There are some good examples of whakapapa (genealogy) lines that aren’t necessarily indicative of evolutionary relationships\u2014taxonomy\u2014but more ecological relationships.
\n“Some crop species have whakapapa that links to their pests as well as the things that help them grow,” he says.
\nThese ecological links can be more useful for translocations than their taxonomic counterparts.
\nCo-author Channell Thoms (Ng\u0101ti Kur\u012b, Ng\u0101i Tahu) says using a species’ whakapapa and Indigenous ways of thinking will improve conservation outcomes.
\n“Quite often we try and translate things into a Westernised science mind, but Indigenous people think differently. The connections we see aren’t necessarily how we would chop them up in a Western world,” she says.
\nChannell says too often translocations are a one-off thing and then that’s it, nothing else happens.
\n“But if you’re actually engaging with the local community (usually hap\u016b or iwi), then it’s more likely to be maintained. It’s not just this one-off ‘chuck it in there and leave it’ because it becomes part of them and they look after it. They’ll also add to the knowledge because as things are changing, knowledge changes.”
\nA global application<\/b>
\nThis approach doesn’t only work in New Zealand.
\nChannell says “It applies globally. People who have grown up in those areas, they know it better than any researcher who just walks in. They also know patterns from the past as well.”
\nIn the Khong province of southern Laos, freshwater fish stocks have been shown to improve when they are run by the local community, compared to those managed solely by government.
\nGunditjmara communities in southeast Australia have managed the culturally-significant kooyang (short-fin eel) for millenia, including through the use of complex aquaculture systems. These communities have also restored habitat and re-established migratory pathways for native fauna.<\/p>\n

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More information:<\/strong>
\n Aisling Rayne et al. Centring Indigenous knowledge systems to re\u2010imagine conservation translocations, People and Nature<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1002\/pan3.10126<\/p>\n

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