Aimee Roberson, executive director of Cultural Survival, joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss how her organization helps Indigenous communities maintain their traditions, languages and knowledge while living among increasingly Westernized societies. As a biologist and geologist with Indigenous heritage, Aimee Roberson is uniquely suited to lead the organization in bridging these worlds, including via “two-eyed seeing,” which blends traditional ecological knowledge and Western science to increase humanity’s ways of knowing, toward a view of people as active participants in shaping the natural world. “If we look at quantum physics, they’ve shown that a particle observed is impacted by the observer. And so just by existing, by observing nature, we’re actually a part of it and we cannot separate ourselves,” she says. Roberson is also a founding member of the Indigenous Kinship Circle,  which, she says, looks at “how we can work adjacent to Western conservation and conservation groups and initiatives.” She explains how traditional has a role to play in conservation, and ways the organization educates conservation practitioners about Indigenous ways of knowing. One of the most impactful ways Indigenous knowledge and traditions are preserved is through oral storytelling, which is why Cultural Survival sees radio as a critical tool for keeping communities together and fostering a relationship with the land. Roberson shares how their robust radio project is specifically designed to train and empower Indigenous media creators to share local news and cultural information of critical importance, in multiple languages across the world. “It’s something that’s [a] core part of what…This article was originally published on Mongabay