Fighter Abebach receives advice from her skilled hunting and forest guide, Fere Alem, who visits from African island of Janjira located near the coast of Bombay. Fere Alem, versed in the ways of people and plants, reminds Abebach that the cooks and healers—already exploited by chefs and scientists who appropriate and profit from their deep knowledge—are threatened with loss of large swathes of biocultural diversity. The nobility rip off the commons that locals managed for millennium. Attentive to experts who base data on vernacular knowledge systems and other scientific systems, Abebach listens and learns.

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