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Mythology, Rewilding Forests and indigenous knowledge with Manchán Magan

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The Importance of Waterholes in Australia

I had no understanding of the profundas yield until I went out there. My head is too Western to get that. So much of Aboriginal art, it's about symbols showing you where the waterholes are. A lot of those were an attempt to basically pollute and industrialize the sacred wells. The first thing that the colonizers did often, they polluted the waterholes. For the crack to know how do we kill off people, just pollute the waterholes in the same way.

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