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amaMpondo environmental defenders on South Africa’s Wild Coast bring the same spirit of resistance to extractive mining interests today as their forebears did to the apartheid state in the 1960s.
Their connection with the land, and the customs that underpin this, makes them mindful custodians of the wilderness.
By Leonie Joubert
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/everything-is-a-being-for-south-africas-amampondo-fighting-to-protect-nature/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Mining #IndigenousPeoples
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1. ‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature
  
  from Latoya Abulu
  
  MPONDOLAND, South Africa — The day the prospectors came, so did the storm. It was 2007, and clouds barreled toward the coast, driven by a wind that churned up dust and foretold of the downpour to come. Beyond the rusty dunes, the Indian Ocean surged with equal force. “It was scary,” says Mamjozi Danca, a […]

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