Indigenous Knowledge Helps Map Habitat for the Threatened Bilby

Australian scientists and indigenous rangers have devised a new method to incorporate indigenous knowledge ­­about a threatened desert marsupial — the greater bilby — into predictive species distribution models.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne and The Nature Conservancy, together with Martu indigenous rangers, designed a new method to model the distribution of the greater bilby, a threatened and culturally significant marsupial species in Australia. The research is the first of its kind to incorporate indigenous knowledge into predictive species distribution maps.

https://blog.nature.org/science/science-brief/indigenous-knowledge-helps-map-habitat-for-the-threatened-bilby/