Discusión importante, la interacción entre conocimientos cientifícos y humanistas es uno de las tendencias para los procesos de interculturalidad y la otra tendencia, la ecología de saberes que propone Boaventura y que registra experiencias en Brasil y Portugal 

The many "approach[es] of Indigenous conservation practices" go mostly unrecognized because they are not expressed in the terms of "scientific" conservation. The conservation movement in North America conveniently sought to save "wild lands" within one generation of their government removing "wild Indians" from those "wild lands". I restrict my remarks to N. America, but I think they may apply elsewhere.

So there is a gap in ethical behavior and honesty about the conservation of those lands before the conservation movement was born. That lack of honesty in the historiograpy of conservation is a major block for scientists who wish to concentrate on data and the scientific method. If they have learned bio-cultural concepts, they may begin to look at the gap in knowledge represented by this lack of acknowledgment- on their part. 

This is not an an act of mea culpa for scientists but rather a very tangible need to understand the prior presence of indigenous practices in customary indigenous homelands. To communicate with indigenous peoples it is necessary to acknowledge this history, or it begins with a denial of who indigenous people are and what relationship they have to customary homelands; they are the progenitors of  "scientific" knowledge carried by the elders among them.

There are currently approaches being taken to address the joint need for conservation of public and adjacent tribal lands. Kyle White (Pottawatomie) at Michigan State University is a key proponent of workshops and conferences where conservationists and indigenous meet to work on communications and exchanges of knowledge. He has written on this topic (his papers are available in Research Gate)

For many indigenous peoples, the trust begins with the establishment of a relationship with them as people. If the scientists' desire to work together is sincere, i.e., it outlasts their publishing schedule, then scientists may establish viable relationships and gain some knowledge of traditional environmental knowledge passed down by indigenous scientists for thousands of years. If their interest is only intellectual, they will unlikely come to a working relationship. That is because the legacy of mistrust, which up to now, outweighs the will to trust. This remains a cost of colonization for indigenous peoples.

Such exchanges are needed, and they are increasingly challenging as climate change impacts disproportionately hit indigenous communities globally. Recognition of indigenous peoples is necessary to begin this work.

Thank you for the question.

Dear Blake,

Your contributions are breath-taking, potent and a great enlightenment. Thank you so much.