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Article History

Received: 31 May 2020

Accepted: 27 August 2020

First Online: 16 September 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Prior to the implementation of the French transcription of the Nagoya protocol, and in the absence of internal ethics committee at the Université de Guyane, we worked in accordance with the recommendations of the Code of Ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology. Informed consent forms were given to all the respondents in order to present and explain to them clearly the objectives of this research project and to obtain their signed agreement to participate. Each of the interviewees was informed beforehand of the confidentiality of this study, and of his/her right to withdraw its participation at any time, and of the objective of publication at the end under the form of a PhD thesis and scientific publications.

: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data, and further consent for publication is not required.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.