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The Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) – a lesson in indigenous bird hunting and conservation

November 19, 2008 – 2:40 pm

For too long, western scientists have either willfully ignored indigenous knowledge of Australia’s birds or damned it as ‘unscientific’. How we access and record what people know of and how they use birds, and the value of indigenous bird knowledge are important tools for species and landscape management.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)