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When Seeing the World As Alive Is Called Madness

How silent observations and deep kinship with the non-human world aids in the understanding of ecological and Indigenous grief and ancestral ties.

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Interviews

Wild Fermentation

OmVed Gardens’ head chef Jo March caught up with fermentation revivalist and author Sandor Katz to discuss environment, tradition and fermentation as metaphor.

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Essays

The Palm Tree Diaspora

How an encounter with tropical palms in the temperate climate of Brest, France, made writer Márcio Cruz reflect on the journeys of plants and his ancestors.

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Essays

Staying Power

Adventures in nature don’t always have to be pursued in other lands, sometimes they can be found closer to home.

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Features

A Born Activist

Environmental activist Samela Sateré Mawé is showing how Indigenous youth in Brazil are taking control of their own narrative and using contemporary weapons in the fight to defend their territories.

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Features

Waters that flow

Indigenous artist Seba Calfuqueo’s work explores identity and how binaries introduced through colonisation are still limiting the human and non-human world.

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Features

Xingu Resistance

On a visit to the Xingu, Brazilian journalist Yula Rocha encounters Indigenous communities under threat, and meets Indigenous artists and activists using their ancient culture to fight back.

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Features

The Plant Name-Giver

Mogaje Guihu is a sage of the Nonuya people who possesses the ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants and the ecological systems of the Amazon basin.

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Interviews

Ex-Pajé

Perpera Suruí is a former shaman of the Paiter Suruí people, based in the village of Lapetanha, Amazonia, Brazil. Contact was first made with the Paiter Suruí on 7 September 1969.

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Features

Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi!

The Yanomami say that Omama, the demiurge, created the tree of dreams so that humans could dream. When the flowers of this tree bloom, dreams are sent to the Yanomami.

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Interviews

Women of the Earth

Fabrícia Sabanê is the coordinator of the Associação das Guerreiras Indígenas de Rondônia (AGIR), an organisation working alongside Indigenous women in the State of Rondônia, Brazil.

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Features

UÝRA

Uýra Sodoma is a manifestation of the biologist, ecologist, visual artist and art educator Emerson Pontes. Uýra tells stories to and for their community via the emotion of the imagination

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THENATUREKIND

A woodland permaculture garden, damp and rugged, surrounded by hornbeam, oak and ivy.

Vicky Chown is a medical herbalist, forager and gardener. She teaches permaculture and urban food growing in Queen’s Wood Community Garden
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‘You don’t know the spirits of the forest’

Davi Kopenawa is a Yanomami shaman and spokesperson and founder of the Hutukara Yanomami Association. His words rippled throughout the world with the book The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

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Poems

Querênça

A Poem by Yacunã Tuxá

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Features

The Forest is Life: Reviving Benin’s Sacred Groves

We are living through multiple, intertwined crises - from climate change and biodiversity loss to gross inequality. Thomas Berry believed the roots of these crises lie in a crisis of our imagination

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Interviews

Whale Whispering

Michaela Harrison is an international vocalist and healer whose career is rooted in relaying the elevating, transformational power of music through song.

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Features

Re-Indigenising the Land

Harnessing the guiding light of their traditions and beliefs, the Indigenous Manobo youth of Bukidnon, in the Philippines, are leading the way in preserving their land and culture.

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