ours, then we stand no chance of being free.

the care of the people of the Congo. They have lived with the land beyond what we know, and are so deeply rooted in our present reality, in our tech, in our lungs, and in our worlds. If we do not understand how their world has built ours, and how their liberation is all of

the Lungs of the Earth, the second largest rainforest on the planet, the forest that absorbs more carbon than the amazon, and produces a vast chunk of the oxygen we breathe.
That area is not protected by whitewashed conservation, or scientific research, that area is protected by

The indigenous folk of Congo, the many tribes and communities, the people who work across the land and across the cities, the stability of their life and the socio political stability of their futures and their dreams...that is what protects, nourishes and gives ecosystem calm to the Congo Basin,

we talk about that coming from the bloodied and roughened hands of Congo without their consent and without rightful resources for themselves. It is ripped from their corpses and pushed into our hands.
But you know what we don't talk about?
Breathing.
You breathe because of Congo.

and "help" in the local area, is seen as the expert, and thus much land and people become exploited, under a front of charity work.

Charity cannot follow a corporate format. It becomes a toxic structure if allowed to do so.

accept responsibility for the "greenwashing" of their work abroad, where there is no respect towards indigenous and local folks who know the land and wildlife, and this is discarded as the more priveleged scientist or individual who has come in to secure funding for their research

aid and support and care networks, around community, mutual aid and support and care networks, not high profile white charity workers who climb the ladder of titles via this charity work.

And yes it is also linked to wildlife charities and the constant refusal of wildlife organisations to

Which also includes their allies in the other areas of this planet

By "western" I mean post modern colonial nations and the largest current economies on the planet.

Then we DARE to say we don't care about their plight at the hands of the government's of the societies we live in that continue their oppression.

be a part of. There will be no wildlife to be in relationship with. There will be no land to connect to.

#Congo

They try to confuse us with narratives of "the oppressor is not clear here" but the oppressor IS clear, and have always been. If we do not pay attention to the sovereignty of african nations, there will be no liberation the world over.
There will be no ecosystem to

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within its vast ecosystems.
NO western wildlife charity will save this land without the liberation of its people. So be interested.

(funding patriarchal and hierarchal figures and emphasising their tribal affiliations) and CHARITIES fronting as freedom when in fact they are taking the lens AWAY from the backhanded corruption (funded via CIA, etc.)...] you cannot have this land survive without the communities who are organisms

has occurred over hundreds of years [for the oppression that has occurred over hundreds of years repression, and the reparations [for the oppression that has occurred over hundreds of years of pain at the hands of western hemispheric powers through military expansion, destabilisation of the region

...does this not FASCINATE US ALL?? There's no MONOPOLY on age, biological change or evolution it is almost impossible to find ways to make it linear unless you FORCE it and ERASE the clues to everything else.

evolution not a "omg I just learnt how to change" sequence) and comes down to many groups of INVERTEBRATES "growing" up in INSTARS (changes that account for radical biological change and not tethered easily to one line of growth that we attach to so many organisms)

different organism altogether is one that exists in MILLIONS of other organisms and is also MILLIONS of years older than what we know as moths and butterflies (again this isn't really true either bc if everything is just an adapted version of everything else then this is a gradual