Elsewhere in British Columbia, First Nations reports of grizzly bears inhabiting coastal islands were dismissed by the government because the observer “was not a biologist”; subsequent DNA analysis showed that 10 islands hosted resident grizzlies. According to one 2008 caribou study, some scientists remain guilty of using traditional knowledge “only when it fits within current resource management models of thinking.”
Andernorts in Britisch Kolumbien wurden Meldungen eines indigenen Beobachters, der von Grizzlypopulationen in Küstenregionen berichtete, abgetan, weil dieser ‚‚kein Biologe sei‘‘.