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Professor Apisom Intralawan, a US-trained ecological ecologist who teaches at Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai would like to change this prejudice through promoting local communities as bases for research. "Villages need to do research, not the academics coming in from afar. The goal is to incorporate traditional knowledge so villagers can govern themselves," he said.