<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="4"><b>New map reveals aboriginal knowledge<br></b></font><br>ABC Rural <br>By Cherie McDonald<br><br>Updated Wed 28 May 2014, 9:28am AEST</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></div><div><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;font-size:1.25em;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It's hoped a <a href="http://aibk.info/map/" target="_self" title="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(239,72,36);text-decoration:none">world-first map recording Aboriginal knowledge</a> will give Australian researchers and landholders a greater understanding of the environment.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The online map, curated by the Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge working group, aims to convert ancient oral knowledge about Australia into an accessible visual and literary format.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Griffith University anthropologist and ethnobiologist Dr Philip Clarke, who was a participant in the working group, says the map will help researchers access little-known Indigenous biocultural knowledge.</p>
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"Indigenous people see the environment, not just in isolation, but as part of society. The flowering of a certain plant, for example, will tell them that fish are now running in the river."</p></div><div class="" style="margin:1em 0px 0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;outline:none 0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:0.9167em">
Dr Philip Clarke, anthropologist and ethnobiologist</div></blockquote></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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