New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- India today informed the global conservation community that it is actively documenting and integrating traditional ecological practices into formal frameworks for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation.
"Our ethos sees science and tradition not as competing forces, but as complementary streams of knowledge," said union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Kirti Vardhan Singh at a high-level roundtable dialogue at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi.
Highlighting the richness of India's indigenous wisdom, Singh cited examples such as the Toda tribes of the Nilgiris, who predict monsoon patterns by observing ant nest-building behaviour, and the Jarawas of the Andaman Isl...