Reply To: Session 2

[Science4biodiversity_moderator]

Mike Gill responded
Hi Raki – thankyou for raising this. I fully agree that Indigenous People’s are core to this given their close relationship to the land over multiple time scales (eons but also year round) allowing for deeper understanding of ecological relationships as well as observing biodiversity change on a daily/yearly basis. I think there has been an unfortunate imbalance on this but there are some great examples that show a way forward – for instance, in the Arctic, where I have worked for many years, we have biodiversity monitoring programs led by Indigenous experts who observe change while on the land (hunting/harvesting) as well as provide deeper/longer interpretations. There’s some good examples that we can and should build on.