A study from Greenland shows that when the estimations from Inuit hunters and fishers were compared to researcher data on the status and trends of 24 different marine species (birds, fish and mammals) they largely agreed (Danielsen et al. Another example is from Swedish Saami villages where reindeer herders were accused of exaggerating the presence of bear predation on reindeer calves. An increasing number of transdisciplinary collaborations between local communities and scientists could be a valuable result from the Nordic IPBES-like assessment. Farmers, artisanal fishers, hunters and nature and culture tourism entrepreneurs from the coasts of Bohuslan, Ostergotland, Gotland, Uppland, Stockholm archipelago, Aland and the Kalix archipelago were represented.