This study highlights how IK is increasingly incorporated in research programs, enhancing understanding of – and contributing novel insight into – ecology and evolution, as well as physiology and applied ecology (that is, management).

This article presents how an admixture of humans first arrived in the western world during the last Ice Age and spread throughout both continents, developing more complex cultures and agriculture, then civilizations. The arrival of Columbus began colonization by white European countries, justified by bringing the indigenous population Christianity and European civilization.

The study use the component analysis and Intensity Analysis methods to systematically analyze the land use landscape changes at multiple levels.

This article aims at analyzing the situation of women’s rights enshrined in the indigenous Gada system of the Guji Oromo of Southern Ethiopia. The paper recommends that the women’s right enshrined in the Guji Oromo Gada system is viable and needs to be recognized and encouraged.

This study was mainly conducted to study and to document the intangible cultural heritages of the Oromo in the Jidda district of North Shewa Zone. The study result revealed that Oromo society is rich in intangible cultural heritages, namely, oral traditions, performed arts, social practice, global and natural knowledge and traditional crafts that contribute in shaping and reflection of Oromo identity.

The objective of the study was to assess existing practices of acquiring and sharing indigenous knowledge (IK) related to wild mushroom species among local communities and examine how local communities harvested, processed, preserved and marketed wild mushroom species using existing IK related to such activities.

The study is the first quantitative report on the ethnomedicinal plants used by the local tribes of this region.

This paper explore the therapeutic potential of orchids by the nomadic tribes use as medicine in their daily life in the Indian Himalaya regions. The majority of orchid taxa are known to have therapeutic potential due to the presence of bioactive substances, such as alkaloids, bibenzyls, phenanthrenes, phenanthrenequinones, glycosides, carbohydrates, flavonoids, and stilbenoids.

The present study is to analyse the dye yielding potential and antibacterial properties of lichen species Heterodermia boryi, Hypotrachyna cirrhata, and Cladonia fruticulosa collected from different parts of Kerala.

Antibiotic associated diarrhoea (AAD) is caused mostly by disruption of the physiological gut microflora. One potential strategy to prevent this is the concurrent use of probiotic bacteria or yeast.