Thank you.
Thank you to all for being here with us. It's hard to know where to start, in many cases, with this testimony that we're hearing today, but I'll start with Mr. Mays.
You talked about the importance of land and culture and how that meshes with indigenous knowledge. We're studying here how indigenous knowledge and science can mesh. You have been working in a part of the world, in Ecuador and Peru, that's one of the richest places in the world as far as indigenous culture and nature and biodiversity are concerned. There people are trying to merge indigenous cultures, and not just in science but also in law, giving nature certain rights under the law—through Pachamama in Ecuador's case, I think.
I'm wondering if you could maybe tell us how that is going and how indigenous knowledge comes into that legal system. How is it used in decisions there, if there are any cases?