Citizen science has emerged as a way to democratize scientific findings. Not all who make decisions that impact the environment come from a trained scientific background. If the scientific disciplines are to effectively convince policy makers and individual actors to adopt lifestyle changes, they must create a convincing narrative. The plight of scientists of the environment is similar to that plight of the indigenous. Indigenous peoples have always had to work on convincing the non-indigenous that they have a just claim to their existence and their protection. Since those making the policy do not share the same experience, they have to create an effective narrative to convince them to agree to their argument. Scientists, as the voice for the environment, possess the same challenge. In recent history, correlations between destructions of environments and indigenous communities revealed that environmentally destructive actions by non-indigenous communities result in simultaneous degradation of indigenous communities. Environmentalists have drawn further correlation, as Brosius notes, between environmental knowledge and the indigenous peoples due to their close-knit connection to their landscape. Environmentalists have discovered that they posses a unique environmental knowledge is difficult to describe in scientific terms. Scientists have been able to use this knowledge as the basis for effective conservation narratives. Environmentalists have capitalized on encouraging the low-footprint lifestyles of native peoples as a mechanism of sustainable living. The protection of human and natural communities must be directly correlated and presented to those with power in narratives that balance scientific and cultural knowledge in a socially-approachable manner.