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XAPIRI

Joseca is a Yanomami artist who lives in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, between the states of Amazonas and Roraima. His drawings combine images of shamanic spirits with scenes from daily forest life.

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Alive and Enchanted

The UK lacks forest. Regeneration offers a chance to move beyond current systems and create a soul connection with woodlands - a chance to rejoin nature.

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Langar

At Sikh temples, food is provided to any and all who wish to eat, regardless of faith or identity. Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck looks at the practice of Langar as a model of inclusion and compassion.

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Dreaming in Sci-Fi

Addressing climate breakdown will require transformational shifts in our politics and culture. A few lessons from science fiction’s imaginative explorations could help.

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Growing Hope

How Syrians displaced by war have adapted to their new ways of living, just like the fungi they are now cultivating for their survival.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

Nature is my syllabus and my art is born from these encounters. Nature tells me what I’m working on next!

Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican artist and ‘artecologist’ exploring how art practice can re-body us back into the animate, vibrant, tangly messwork of our ecology.
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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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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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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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Radical Roots

In this guide to radical kinship, everyone from urban dwellers to farmers follow the journey of rerooting and rewilding through myth-telling as we step into the realms of the more-than-human world.

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Nature Rights

Natalie Koffman and Flora Gregory embarked on a project that explores whether nature should have legal rights and what the world and our lives would look like if it did.

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