Estuary and Piping Plover find their voice

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Estu and Plove explore ideas of truth and reconciliation, biodiversity, personhood, and more to start the conversation on often overlooked areas of environmentalism. HARP The People’s Press’ new podcast brings to light the stories of the Antigonish Harbour estuary (“Estu”) and the piping plover (“Plove”).

Episodes

  1. 03/01/2024

    Episode 1: Estuary and Piping Plover Launch their Podcast

    “Voices Raised Against The New Commercial Oyster Fishery”

  2. 03/02/2024

    Episode 2: Estu and Plove – We Want to be Persons too

    “A Call To Extend Legal Personhood For More-than-Human Species”

  3. 03/03/2024

    Episode 3: Estu and Plove – We are all Treaty Persons

    “Renewed Commitment to Peace and Friendship Treaties and Truth & Reconciliation”

  4. 04/25/2024

    Episode 4: Wildlife Biologist Bob Bancroft Visits Estu and Plove

    "Bob Bancroft Tells Stories of his Lifelong Journey and Career as a Marine Biologist"

  5. 05/03/2024

    Episode 5: Bob Bancroft on the Changing Ecology of Antigonish Harbour

    "Bob Bancroft Relates how Settlers have diminished Antigonish Harbour"

  6. 05/04/2024

    Episode 6: Bob Bancroft Reflects on the Species at Risk Act

    "Biologist Bob Bancroft discloses the long history of all levels of government sidestepping legislation in order to favour economic and agricultural development over biodiversity."

  7. 05/05/2024

    Episode 7: What Counts as Science?

    "The Aquaculture Review Board privileges testimony that favours the developer over lived experience knowledge and Mi'kmaw traditional knowledge."

  8. 05/06/2024

    Episode 8: Who Can We Count on for Coastal Protection?

    "Bob Bancroft decries the decision to place coastal protection in the hands of individual property owners rather than an enforceable legislated Coastal Protection Act"

  9. 05/16/2024

    Episode 9: A Visitation With Porpoise Past

    "Porpoise Past speaks out against the debilitating impact of the noise and bustle of human activity from a large-scale commercial oyster fishery on the harbour porpoise’s essential echolocation abilities. “Accessing our food supply in the eelgrass nursery was never a problem in my day when the Mi’kmaq were stewards of these waters."

  10. 05/17/2024

    Episode 10: Porpoise Past Pays Homage to Eelgrass

    "Porpoise Past presents a counter vision for creating a “full and abundant life for all” — porpoises, plovers, estuaries, eels, eelgrass, and yes, humans — in keeping with the cooperative principles of the Antigonish Movement and the Mi’kmaw values of All My Relations."

  11. 05/22/2024

    Episode 11: Environmental Racism at Antigonish Harbour

    "Estu and Plove reveal the deception on the part of government and coastal property owners of exploiting ecological and sustainability arguments as a way to avoid archaeological assessment of Mi'kmaw burial grounds and circumvent treaty rights and Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action."

  12. 06/18/2024

    Episode 12: Rest in Peace – Elder John R. Prosper Prays the Rosary

    "In this final episode, Estu and Plove join Elder John R. Prosper of Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation at St. Anne's Church to honour and remember the Town Point ancestors in unmarked graves near the large scale oyster fishery in Antigonish Harbour approved by the Nova Scotia government without an archaeological assessment or Indigenous consent."

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Estu and Plove explore ideas of truth and reconciliation, biodiversity, personhood, and more to start the conversation on often overlooked areas of environmentalism. HARP The People’s Press’ new podcast brings to light the stories of the Antigonish Harbour estuary (“Estu”) and the piping plover (“Plove”).

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