Indigenous Peoples have manipulated environments and species for millennia. However, restoration science often overlooks ancient human plant dispersal, niche construction, and selection pressures that may have resulted in plant 'cultural traits'. Concerted efforts to acknowledge Indigenous plant-use histories in restoration could help to abate the coextinction of species and cultures.
Keywords: Traditional Ecological knowledge; biocultural diversity; cross-cultural science; cultural traits; decolonising science; two-eyed seeing.
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