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Dr. Harold Conklin, a linguist and anthropologist, worked extensively in Ethnobiology. Dr.Conklin was one of the first to bring forward and question the scarce written matter on Swidden cultivation and bringing forward the importance that is ethnoecology. Some believe that it was Dr.Conklin that first coined the term 'ethnoecology'. American anthropologist and biologist, Darrell Posey, did work on traditional knowledge of Indigenous people. The International Society of Ethnobiology developed the "ISE Darrell Posey Fellowships for Ethnoecology and Traditional Resource Rights" as a way to encourage understanding of peoples connection and knowledge of the environment that they live in. Posey, along with a group of scientist, studied how the Kapayo people of Brazil sustained and worked with different ecosystems as the area that they live in went from a dry savanna to a tropical rainforest. They documented the techniques that the Kapayo used for sowing and caring for plants, through this project they were able to display the intricate ways in which indigenous people worked and cared for the environment