Conocimientos del pueblo Mayangna sobre la convivencia del hombre y la naturaleza: peces y tortugas, demonstrates the depth and breadth of local knowledge of the natural milieu, including behaviour, habitat, reproduction and migration patterns, and the introduction of new and invasive species.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

While I was happy to win the business, I knew that the next steps would take us on a very exciting and expensive journey of trying to find out what Mike knows (or rather what Mike thinks he knows), extracting the applicable knowledge, documenting it and making it available for the development teams to actually make the migration happen.

FORBES: How do you photocopy someone's head?

As natural disasters and wars rip apart societies, and as large-scale modernization projects, urbanization, and transnational migration bring about sudden dislocations, the endurance of cultural beliefs, values, practices, and knowledge, and their transmission across generations have become significant concerns.

UNESCO: Resilient Societies

Jean Ellis, of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, a former teacher who is also a descendant of Cornish immigrants, has researched Cornish migration and said from the late 1800s there was a "stream of young Cornishmen carrying unique skills and knowledge to every mining camp in North America".

BBC: Cornwall