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Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation

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Pollinators underpin sustainable livelihoods that link ecosystems, spiritual and cultural values, and customary governance systems with indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) across the world. Biocultural diversity is a shorthand term for this great variety of people–nature interlinkages that have developed over time in specific ecosystems. Biocultural approaches to conservation explicitly build on the conservation practices inherent in sustaining these livelihoods. We used the Conceptual Framework of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to analyse the biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation by IPLCs globally. The analysis identified biocultural approaches to pollinators across all six elements of the Conceptual Framework, with conservation-related practices occurring in 60 countries, in all continents except Antarctica. Practices of IPLCs that are important for biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation can be grouped into three categories: the practice of valuing diversity and fostering biocultural diversity; landscape management practices; and diversified farming systems. Particular IPLCs may use some or all of these practices. Policies that recognize customary tenure over traditional lands, strengthen indigenous and community-conserved areas, promote heritage listing and support diversified farming systems within a food sovereignty approach are among several identified that strengthen biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation, and thereby deliver mutual benefits for pollinators and people.

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Fig. 1: Overview of analysis.
Fig. 2: Global patterns of the contribution of biocultural approaches for pollinators and pollination to quality of life, from studies and/or sites identified in the analysis.
Fig. 3: Stingless bee anatomy and ontogeny according to the Kayapó.
Fig. 4: Nature’s contributions to people.

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Data for Figs. 2 and 4 are available at CSIRO Data Access Portal (https://doi.org/10.25919/5c3d14a45ec49). Several files are available for download, including the spatial data for all the locations on the maps, and the literature or online sources for each of these locations. Data which link the literature/online sources to the locations are also available upon request to the corresponding author, with a brief explanation of why the data is required. These restrictions are in place to protect the privacy of the indigenous peoples and local communities. Source data for Figs. 1 and 3 are shown in the captions.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the indigenous peoples and local communities globally who provided their knowledge of practices and philosophies underpinning conservation of pollinators and pollination to the hundreds of publications that we reviewed for this article. Their contributions to the sustainable use and conservation of biocultural diversity over millennia benefits many peoples globally, and we are deeply grateful. We particularly thank those IPLCs and their partners who participated directly in global and community dialogues about pollination for the IPBES assessment of pollinators and pollination in food production. H. Ngo of the IPBES Secretariat and D. Nakashima and his team from UNESCO provided wonderful support to these dialogues. We also acknowledge the fine efforts of IPBES to work with ILK in their assessments and their commitments to recognize and respect the roles of IPLCs. We thank IPBES for the opportunity to be involved in the assessment that enabled our team of co-authors to meet each another and subsequently progress this paper. Each of us acknowledges and thanks the organizations that supported our contributions to this paper. L.V.D. is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council NERC (NE/N014472/1). R.H. is supported through CSIRO Land and Water’s Indigenous Futures initiative. We thank G. C. Aragão of Embrapa Amazônia Oriental and J. Smith of WhiteSpace Design Studio for their contributions to Figs. 1–4.

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  1. CSIRO Land and Water, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

    Rosemary Hill

  2. Division of Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

    Rosemary Hill

  3. Departamento de Biología, Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

    Guiomar Nates-Parra

  4. Department of Tropical Apiculture, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico

    José Javier G. Quezada-Euán

  5. Department of Plant Protection, Biological Control Laboratory, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia

    Damayanti Buchori

  6. Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

    Gretchen LeBuhn

  7. Laboratório de Entomologia, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil

    Marcia M. Maués

  8. CSIRO Land and Water, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

    Petina L. Pert

  9. Department of Conservation Biology and Entomology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

    Peter K Kwapong

  10. Department of Entomology, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan

    Shafqat Saeed

  11. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Sara J Breslow

  12. Department of Anthropology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

  13. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

  14. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Lynn V. Dicks

  15. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales and Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET/UNC), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

    Leonardo Galetto

  16. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

    Mary Gikungu

  17. The Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Rangahau Ahumara Kai, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Brad G. Howlett

  18. Vale Institute of Technology Sustainable Development, Belém, Brazil

    Vera L. Imperatriz-Fonseca

  19. Ecology Department, Biosciences Institute, S. Paulo University, São Paulo, Brazil

    Vera L. Imperatriz-Fonseca

  20. Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

    Phil O’B. Lyver

  21. Faculty for Sustainability, Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany

    Berta Martín-López

  22. Social and Participatory Action Research, Universidad Pablo de Olavide and FRACTAL Collective, Seville, Spain

    Elisa Oteros-Rozas

  23. Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, Reading, UK

    Simon G. Potts

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R.H., G.N.-P. and J.J.G.Q.-E. coordinated the conceptual design, and together with D.B., G.L. and M.M.M., drafted the text of the manuscript. P.L.P. undertook the spatial analysis and prepared the maps, with assistance from R.H. and L.G. in data preparation. All 21 authors contributed to the ideas, evaluation of the literature, review and finalization of the text.

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Hill, R., Nates-Parra, G., Quezada-Euán, J.J.G. et al. Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation. Nat Sustain 2, 214–222 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0244-z

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