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The man, who has not been named, was performing an ancestral rite by a family grave on a hill in Uiseong county, North Gyeongsang province, at the time.

It is believed that ancestral spirits are able to provide advice and healing through these culturally respected practitioners.

The Yurok tribe’s Northern California Condor Restoration Program plays a key role in these efforts by reintroducing condors to the tribe’s ancestral homelands.

Some ancestral varieties of Mexican corn have already gone extinct, he said, “the product of illegal plantings and uncontrolled and undetected cross-pollination.”

And in 2009, the new constitution even recognized “ancestral coca as cultural patrimony, a renewable natural resource of Bolivia’s biodiversity, and as a factor of social cohesion.”