Local and indigenous knowledge systems and environmental management practices provide valuable insight and tools for tackling ecological challenges.

UNESCO: Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices

Innovation and social transformation depend on our capacity to combine disciplines and create synergies among all sciences, natural, human and social, including local and indigenous knowledge.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN KATHMANDU

UNESCO, through its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) Programme, is working to bring recognition to this issue, and to demonstrate the link between cultural and biological diversity.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples