Indigenous Ecological Knowledge & Climate Change Blog :
Importance of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) is a term you might have heard of but not know what it means.
The Aboriginals lived within the Carrying Capacity of their Ecosystems, thus harmonising and maintaining the Biodiversity of their Ecosystems through the consumption of their Natural Resource Carrying Capacity.
For thousands of years Aboriginal people survived in the Australian landscape relying on their intricate knowledge of the land and its plants and animals. Tracking and hunting, digging soakages and maintaining surface waters were just some of the ways that people survived the harsh desert environment and in turn developed important knowledge about ecological processes.
The Valuable Knowledge that the Aboriginal People possess is extremely important in Australia's current situation of Climate Change Crisis. Better Land Management derived from thousands of years of Indigenous habitation can only strengthens Australia's Fragile Biodiversity in the Wake of Climate Change Chaos.
