One thing we've heard a couple of times, both today and previously, is that one of the valuable additions that indigenous knowledge can make when considered alongside western science or settler science is just the long time scale that's involved when you're considering what the trajectory of a species' status might be. It seems to me very essential to know what things were like in the past. That is something that indigenous knowledge can really provide.
On November 29th, 2023. See this statement in context.