Intercultural dialogues as a strategy in ethnobiological gardens

Abstract

The dialogue of knowledge between scientists and indigenous communities is a way to accomplish nature conservation, since it seeks to integrate the knowledge achieved in the academy with that which indigenous communities have obtained through generations in close contact with their environment. Ancestral wisdom can make great contributions, and in turn, scientists can enrich traditional knowledge with the body of knowledge achieved during their work. Based on the above, the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCyT) launched the project to create ethnobiological gardens, where both scientific and traditional knowledge about plants, animals and their conservation come together. The present work was carried out with the objective of knowing the work in different ethnobiological gardens, the groups that participate, their acceptance among the scientific community and the results they have had so far, through semi-structured interviews and bibliographic and newspaper searches.