Present scenario of user knowledge and availability of Wild Edible Plants in Male Mahadehswara Hills, South India

fundamental source of information for biologists. The Sentimiel initiative advocates in favor of a greater involvement of local communities into the process of assessing the poorly visible impact of climate change on tropical forests. Through their extensive traditional ecological knowledge and know-how, local communities could play a determining role as sentinels by providing first-hand and accurate observations and supplying databases that dramatically fail at incorporating anthropological data into the elaboration of predictive models on climate change (Salick and Byg 2007).