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The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity

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The importance of Indigenous knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity is discussed in this paper. But the authors do not consider the impact of language and culture on the health of humans.
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http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org XXXX XXXX / Vol. XX No. X • BioScience 1 BioScience XX: 1–11. © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw026 Advance Access publication XXXX XX, XXXX The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity

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