How learning names of organisms in indigenous languages can help the sciences. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01678-1 Even if the locals do not have different names for what science considers different species. #indigenous #IndigenousKnowledge #indigenousknowledgesystems #conservation #ecology #ethnobiology
‘Rainbow’, ‘like a cricket’: every bird in South Africa now has an isiZulu name

An effort to create names for wild bird species in the Indigenous language hopes to strengthen conservation research.