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The Selective Persistence of Local Ecological Knowledge: Honey Collecting with the Jenu Kuruba in South India

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  1. 7 % replied that there is the same amount of honey in the forest now; 2 %, that there is more, 2 % reported that they didn’t know.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Jenukalla, M. G. for his role as research assistant and Dr. C.G. Kushalappa for help with access to the field sites. This research was funded by NSF- Cultural Anthropology Program (BSC-0726612) and ANR- French National Research Agency Project (ANR-05-PADD-0XX Public Policies and Traditional Management of Trees and Forests -POPULAR). The work was part of the project Managing Biodiversity in Mountain Landscapes (http://www.ifpindia.org/Managing-Biodiversity-in-Mountain-Landscapes.html) of the French Institute of Pondicherry. We would like to thank Charles Kelada for assistance with data collection. Thank you to the Jenu Kuruba communities of Chottepare, Bassavanhalli, Diddali, Diddali Colony, and Thathalli.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA

    K. Demps

  2. French Institute of Pondicherry, 605 001, Pondicherry, India

    K. Demps, F. Zorondo-Rodriguez, C. García & V. Reyes-García

  3. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    F. Zorondo-Rodriguez

  4. CIRAD, Goods and Services of Tropical Forest Ecosystems, F - 34398, Montpellier, France

    C. García

  5. CIFOR, Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forest Programme, 16115, Bogor, Indonesia

    C. García

  6. ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    V. Reyes-García

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Demps, K., Zorondo-Rodriguez, F., García, C. et al. The Selective Persistence of Local Ecological Knowledge: Honey Collecting with the Jenu Kuruba in South India. Hum Ecol 40, 427–434 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9489-0

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