Indigenous knowledge is another important part of that picture."Dr Edwards was the recipient of a $300,000 federal government grant in 2024 to explore how Indigenous songlines have protected whales and dolphins over hundreds of years.She draws on knowledge as part of her project Unbroken Whispers, which has been looking into First Nations knowledge of the southern right whale, humpbacks, orcas and dolphins."We're not saying our cultural science is better and we're not saying that Western science is better."We're saying they follow the same patterns Indigenous science is based on long-term observations, so that macro evolution and those observations have then been placed in stories."