Healing Is the Primary Challenge of Our Time, Indigenous Elder Tells Delegates at World Wilderness Congress

[Greg Harman]

Deceleration continues to upload videos and stories from last week's critical convening in the Black Hills.

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VIDEO: Healing Is the Primary Challenge of Our Time, Indigenous Elder Tells Delegates at World Wilderness Congress
‘Mother Earth, she doesn’t need humans to help save her. … It’s a question about whether or not if we humans are going to survive and be here,’ Illarion Mercullieff, Unangax̂ (Aleut), told delegates at the World Wilderness Congress last weekend.
https://deceleration.news/mother-earth-healing-is-the-primary-challenge-of-our-time/

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WILD12 Coverage:

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says
“Either we face a lot of chaos, global disasters, tears from our relatives’ eyes … or we come together [and] unite as people of the world,” Arvol Looking Horse said.
https://deceleration.news/wild12-arvol-looking-horse-prophesy/

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere
Indigenous peoples face promise—and potential perils—in the struggle for wilderness conservation.
https://deceleration.news/wild12-land-back-at-the-center-of-biodiversity-debate/

WILD12: Buffalo are Center of Restoration Efforts from the Black Hills to the Texas Plains
“If you see this animal like your grandma, how would you treat it versus just something in the wild?” asked Tatewin Means, executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation.
https://deceleration.news/buffalo-restoration-wild12-texas-black-hills/

WILD12: It’s Time to Step Up to Protect the Legal Rights of Nature, Panelists Say
Attendees encouraged to advance legal claims in defense of all life on Earth. “There is no time to equivocate,” says Ponca Nation environmental justice leader.
https://deceleration.news/wild12-rights-of-nature-panel/

VIDEO: Rights of Nature Organizer Says the City of San Antonio Owes the Bird Protectors an Apology
‘Who is the crazy one? The person defending the ecosystem or the one justifying ecocide?’
https://deceleration.news/legal-rights-of-nature-britt-gondolfi/

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