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The knowledge of indigenous people regarding the surrounding environment, climate change, and local biodiversity has helped them thrive over thousands and millions of years. The indigenous people are local and successors of various cultures. Their way of linking the environment with people who have cherished cultural, traditional, environmental, economic, social, and political views is diverse among modern lifestyles. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is dependent on the communication of man with nature. In contrast to indigenous knowledge systems, TEK focuses on the interrelationships and communications of living entities with one another and their surrounding environment. Interest in TEK as an elective way to deal with natural resource management has recently expanded as worries for worldwide ecological crises have also increased. Deterioration of ecosystems, climate change, and sea-level rise are a few instances of such natural issues compromising human livelihoods. Hence, a comprehensive understanding of TEK and its role in biodiversity conservation is urgent. The paper talks about the TEK and its importance in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
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Nepal, T.K. (2022). Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Its Importance in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. In: Rai, S.C., Mishra, P.K. (eds) Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Resource Management in Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16840-6_19
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