What is traditional ecological knowledge and how does it fit into the Caring for our Country business plan?
Traditional ecological knowledge refers to a cumulative body of knowledge, know-how, practices and representations maintained and developed by Indigenous peoples with extended histories of interaction with the natural environment. These sophisticated sets of understandings, interpretations and meanings are part and parcel of a cultural complex that encompasses language, naming and classification systems, resource use practices, ritual, spirituality and worldview. With the ageing of key traditional knowledge holders and the potential for much knowledge to be lost forever, it is important for traditional ecological knowledge to be recorded. Through Caring for our Country, the Australian Government may support Indigenous communities to gather traditional ecological knowledge. Under the 2010-11 business plan we are seeking proposals from Indigenous groups to systematically record traditional ecological knowledge that can be used to support biodiversity, coastal and other conservation outco
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