This is a brilliant read! The opening with the kidney beans had me hooked immediately.
“Nowadays, ‘humanising’ is seen as the great sin of the wildlife rehabilitation world; a carer whose charge becomes ‘humanised’ has failed in their duty to rehabilitate an animal such that it can independently survive in the wild.”
This quote could not be more aligned with what I am hope we can overturn and what I write about. An estimated 80% of the remaining biodiversity on the planet is stewarded by indigenous communities, many with deep traditions of humanising the animals they share their land with. For example, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where I recently returned from, the Napo Runa (runa meaning people/person in Kichwa) tell stories of the time of the Runa Puma, when jaguars could take the form of a human.
This is a brilliant read! The opening with the kidney beans had me hooked immediately.
“Nowadays, ‘humanising’ is seen as the great sin of the wildlife rehabilitation world; a carer whose charge becomes ‘humanised’ has failed in their duty to rehabilitate an animal such that it can independently survive in the wild.”
This quote could not be more aligned with what I am hope we can overturn and what I write about. An estimated 80% of the remaining biodiversity on the planet is stewarded by indigenous communities, many with deep traditions of humanising the animals they share their land with. For example, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where I recently returned from, the Napo Runa (runa meaning people/person in Kichwa) tell stories of the time of the Runa Puma, when jaguars could take the form of a human.