“For us, both our ancestral knowledge and scientific knowledge are important” Dzoodzo Baniwa“My mother and father were illiterate,” Dzoodzo tells SciDev.Net. He was a primary school pupil at the first Baniwa and Coripaco Pamáali Indigenous School, where he later returned as a teacher and school coordinator. “For us, both our ancestral knowledge and scientific knowledge are important,” he says. Dzoodzo is currently an advisor for indigenous school education at the Municipal Secretariat of Education and Indigenous School Education of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the state of Amazonas. Dzoodzo stresses that the indigenous community and the scientific community must join forces to seek creative solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.