INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RESTORATION NETWORK

The Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network’s (IPRN) was established as an effort to support native and tribal communities with environmental restoration and cultural rehabilitation through the use of technology. The purpose of this agency is to assist leaders and practitioners from these societies to use their traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and their own views and practices in conjunction with technology to achieve their ecological goals. Aboriginal cultures can accomplish this by employing the use of ecological restoration tools to ensure the survival of their culture and people. This would require the combination of traditional ecological knowledge from indigenous communities with newer models of sustainable agro-ecosystem management.

http://www.ser.org/iprn/default.asp

The following URL (http://www.ser.org/iprn/tek.asp) is for a section on this website that explains what traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is, its purpose and how it is a huge part of Aboriginal society.