To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

Ancient connections between animals and human are seen in cultures throughout the world
in multiple forms of interaction with the local fauna that form the core of Ethnozoology …

Faunal resources have played a wide range of roles in human life from the earliest days of
recorded history. In addition to their utilitarian importance, animals have been recognized in …

Connections between animals and humans date back thousands of years, and cultures all
over the world have developed characteristic ways of interacting with the regional fauna …

Biodiversity inventory, monitoring, and species-recovery efforts can be advanced by a
dynamic collaboration of Western, citizen, and ethnoscience. Indigenous and local …

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) has a worldwide distribution, being targeted by fishers all
along its range, which includes the Brazilian coast. We formulated and checked hypotheses …

Background Although fishers' knowledge has been recently considered into management
programmes, there is still the need to establish a better understanding of fishers' perceptions …

Background Data derived from studies of fishers' local ecological knowledge (LEK) can be
invaluable to the proposal of new studies and more appropriate management strategies …

Freshwater small-scale fisheries sustain millions of livelihoods worldwide, but a lack of
monitoring makes it difficult to check the sustainability of these fisheries. We aim to compare …

Human interaction with the living world, in science and beyond, always involves
classification. While it has been a long-standing scientific goal to produce a single all …