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Words for birds: Investigating birds and their names with Indigenous people in Amazonia

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million Indigenous people around the world directly depend on tropical forests for survival, ...
Mongabay

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have

A global study drawing on Indigenous and local knowledge across three continents finds that bird communities have shifted toward smaller-bodied species over the past 80 years, suggesting a substantial ...
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Indigenous peoples and locals report a drastic decline in bird size across three continents

Birds currently inhabiting many territories across Africa, Latin America and Asia are, on average, considerably smaller than those that predominated in 1940. This is the conclusion of an international ...
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Indigenous Communities Report Dramatic Loss Of Large Bird Species Over 80 Years

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is ...
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Indigenous Peoples and local communities in three continents report a drastic decline in bird body mass

Birds currently inhabiting many territories across Africa, Latin America and Asia are, on average, considerably smaller than those that predominated in 1940. This is the conclusion of an international ...
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Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, an ethnobotanist with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of the study, first noticed that ...