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Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē
Just gonna....leave this here
Tsuu T'ina mother and daughter. Ca.1900. Alberta, Canada.
Indigenous communities across the world invest nearly $5 billion in conservation annually, making up a quarter of all conservation spending by governments, donors, foundations and NGOs worldwide, according to the report. Their customary territories are estimated to contain 36% of the world’s remaining intact forest landscapes and 80% of remaining biodiversity.
“Because of the deep connection of our people to our land and territories, we conserve an outsized proportion of the world’s biodiversity and ecosystems through our governance system and cultural practices,” Peter Kallang, an Indigenous leader from Sarawak, Malaysia, said at the launch. “Caring for and sustaining our territories is part of our identity, part of our customary laws and values, and part of our way of life.”
At times, this has come at the cost of their lives. Since 2012, more than 1,540 land and environmental rights defenders have been killed, more than a quarter of them in Asia, according to human rights NGO Global Witness.
Don’t mind me, just counting down to Thursday by quietly willing Nightwolf into the new era as a magical hacker/dimension hopper/thorn in Lord Liu Kang’s side.
Seriously though, I’d love to combine his tech-head skills from the old cartoon with his skill and knowledge of mysticism; I just feel like there’s so much potential there!