Role of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Eco System Services: Time to Look into the Pages of the Past for an Answer

Abstract

Indigenous and tribal communities all across the world have taken care of the natural resources they have been living in for centuries. The various traditional knowledge's have transferred through generations and has been following them as ancestral knowledge. A lot many efforts have been made by these communities and serious contributions have been made in eco-system services by them. Their life has been sustainable and have respected natural resources more than their greed. Research has unraveled various method of similar eco system services which have been documented and practices till date. This practice requires to be imitated specially in jurisdictions with many indigenous, aboriginal and tribal communities specially in the area of conservation of indigenous medicines and water resources.