People Managing Forests

Traditional knowledge as an ethical fundamental for the conservation of biodiversity in the floodplains of the Amazon

“…Conservation ethic is a concept that has drawn attention from several Western environmental groups (COLFER; BYRON, 2001). The term conservation leads to the idea of taking care to preserve and protect something important while ethics, in turn, can be regarded as a system of moral values that opposes a simple materialist perspective (ERC, 2003).…”