This is an extract from the end of my conversation with Tony Rinaudo, the award-winning Senior Climate Action Advisor for World Vision, aka The Forest Maker. We talk about his global vision, how societies can come to read the land again, and how the extraordinary summer bushfires triggered a major new global collaboration recently launched in Australia. But it was the story Tony told of a truth and reconciliation process in Africa that perhaps holds the key to all of it.

Title slide: the moment of Tony’s epiphany, in the early 1980’s (credit unknown).

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You can listen to the full conversation with Tony in the main episode 64 - The Forest Maker: And the largest positive environmental transformation in Africa, with Tony Rinaudo AM.

You’ll find a link there to a 5 minute special extra too, featuring a short story from the time of Tony’s departure from Niger: ‘We Were Nothing (the trees were almost a side-event)’.

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