How Maori scientists are connecting traditional knowledge

 How Maori scientists are connecting  traditional knowledge 

Pauline Harris works at Victoria university,she is discovering animals, climate change and Indigenous people. She has discovered that indigenous people that live in really cold places like Alaska have already talked about unusual climate change. 

Pauline Harris said that lakes are thawing and mosquitoes are hatching earlier and growing faster than it is supposed to.  

She has also said that Maori communities might be aware that Aotearoa of similar changes could be affecting wildlife.    

Pauline is working with a team of researchers to visit iwi and hapu throughout the country. The matauranga held by these communities extends years back.

It could reveal insights into how our plants and animals have acted in the past till now.