“…For instance, foraging cultures have developed and used heuristics, including precautionary strategies and taboos, to deal with uncertain environments (Colding and Folke 2001, Henrich and Henrich 2010, Kaaronen 2020. In traditional Finnish https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss3/art2/ foraging cultures, for example, foragers have been documented to rely on precautionary heuristics that prohibit the picking of unknown mushrooms or mushrooms with certain traits (such as color) to set clear and well-defined boundaries for safe foraging (Kaaronen 2020). At the group level and by way of other examples, precautionary traditions and taboos have been documented as being used in protection against the consumption of dangerous marine toxins (Henrich and Henrich 2010), the governance of sustained marine resource management (Johannes 1978, Hens 2006, Hickey 2007, Smyth and Isherwood 2016, the management of livestock and pastoral risks (Roe 2020), the placing of temporary restrictions on farming to prevent the overworking of land (Sarfo-Mensah and Oduro 2007), and the setting of boundaries for protected forest patches such as sacred groves (Bhagwat and Rutte 2006, Sarfo-Mensah and Oduro 2007, Dudley et al 2009, Nganso et al 2012, Yuan et al 2020.…”