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Recording oral traditions

DANIEL BOURCHIER
August 17th, 2008

Australia

A TERRITORY scientist has won a Churchill Fellowship for his work in documenting
Aboriginal names and uses for plants and animals.

Glenn Wightman, an ethnobiologist with the Natural Resources Department will
visit research centres in the United Kingdom and United States to discover how
traditional plant and animal knowledge is being preserved.

He has been working with Aboriginal woman Ada Goodman, of 15 Mile Camp, near
Palmerston, for three years to compile the most extensive written record of the
region's flora and fauna.

Mr Wightman has been working in this field for 26 years and has been involved in
recording biological knowledge of 44 Aboriginal language groups, overseeing the
publication of 24 books.

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