Posey Darrell A
Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield college, University of Oxford, OX2 6JD, Oxford, UK.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2002 Nov;83(1-2):3-12. doi: 10.1016/s0378-8741(02)00189-7.
Indigenous and traditional peoples have made major contributions to the enhancement and conservation of the world's biodiversity. Although this is increasingly recognized in international discourse, rights of these peoples to continue their traditional practices are threatened by the globalized economy. Science implicitly denies their contribution to biodiversity conservation and enhancement by referring to their lands as 'wild' or 'wilderness'. It also effectively undermines their rights by claiming that the biodiversity fostered by their traditional practices is a global resource. In order to counter these threats, we need not only to strengthen the rights of indigenous and traditional peoples, but also to reverse global trends that substitute economic and utilitarian models for the holistic concept of the 'sacred balance'.
原住民和传统民族为世界生物多样性的增进和保护做出了重大贡献。尽管这一点在国际讨论中日益得到认可，但这些民族继续其传统做法的权利却受到全球化经济的威胁。科学界含蓄地否认他们对生物多样性保护和增进的贡献，将他们的土地称为“野生的”或“荒野”。科学界还通过声称他们传统做法培育的生物多样性是一种全球资源，有效地损害了他们的权利。为了应对这些威胁，我们不仅需要加强原住民和传统民族的权利，还需要扭转用经济和功利模式取代“神圣平衡”这一整体概念的全球趋势。
