From Pre-Brookes to Hot, Flat and Crowded World

THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL
VOL LXXIX NO.100 DECEMBER 2018

Title :
From Pre-Brookes to Hot, Flat and Crowded World: Are Changes in Indigenous Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices Seriously Affecting Hornbills Conservation?

Author :
Victor Luna Amin and Semilan Ripot

Abstract:

In the island of Borneo, the forests ecosystem, rivers and wildlife prior to the pre-Brookes era have notably influenced the evolution of their indigenous knowledge, practices and beliefs system, known as the traditional ecological knowledge. Such influence has, over time developed into acceptable cultural and traditional identity of indigenous people. Today, changes in the political and socio-economic development, driven by the flattening, crowding and warming of the world have devoured open space and tropical rainforest of the world. The impacts, in turn to some extent had disrupted ecosystems and depleted species that has been perceived increasingly impacting the dynamic nature of the beliefs and cultural system of many indigenous communities. This paper elicits some factors and conditions that maintain or undermine indigenous communities’ ability to adapt, generate, transmit and apply the traditional knowledge, beliefs and cultural systems with respect to the species of hornbills and its conservation in the face of changing environmental and socio-economic conditions.

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2018-7GFT-17

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Victor Luna Amin and Semilan Ripot (2018).From Pre-Brookes to Hot, Flat and Crowded World: Are Changes in Indigenous Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices Seriously Affecting Hornbills Conservation?. Sarawak Museum Journal, LXXIX (100): 261-286. https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2018-7GFT-17

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