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  • Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science and Technology, Jimma University
The pied kingfisher helps the Nuer to find parts of the river where there’s an abundance of fish. Henrik Karlsson/Getty Images

Nuer people have a sacred connection to birds – it can guide conservation in Ethiopia and South Sudan

Abebayehu Aticho, Jimma University; Abebe Beyene, Jimma University; Andrew Gosler, University of Oxford; Desalegn Chala, University of Oslo; Nils Christian Stenseth, University of Oslo, and Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew, Bahir Dar University

Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them.

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