Raised among indigenous peoples near the Venezuela border, he noticed the ways they approached the land and made their livelihoods. With a five-year, $523,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Cummings will return to his home country to study indigenous peoples’ influenced landscapes, or landscapes within which indigenous peoples complete a range of traditional livelihood practices. Learn More Listen to Dr. Anthony Cummings discuss his research in an episode from the UT Dallas CometCast Network: Could We Ever Understand the Importance of Tropical Landscapes? Does it impact the amount of forest or the traditional ecosystem services that indigenous peoples may have derived from the forests? They will be exposed to the indigenous peoples’ farming practices and learn some of their language.