Land Body Ecologies Invisible Flock

THIS IS THE RUTWA LANGUAGE VERION OF : EPISODE 5 - Born From Here
Rutwa is the Indigenous language of the Batwa community with whom this episode has been created.

For the English version please look for Episode 5 - Born From Here.

Land Body Ecologies Podcast is a series of six stand-alone episodes sharing stories of solastalgia from land-dependent and Indigenous communities affected by environmental change. In Episode 5, Born From Here, we travel to the edges of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forests in Kanungu district in Southwestern Uganda. Looking to the dense green hills that hold fields of sunflowers and ridges overlooking sacred trees, listeners hear stories of the ancestral land of the Batwa community.
Clouds constantly rise and fall in the hills of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This is known as Muntaba and is a place the Batwa would not visit as it is meant to be spiritual and sited with gold. The Batwa were once forest dwellers who used to live in Ekyuya, Semuliki, Bwindi, and Mgahinga, their ancestral lands in Uganda. In the early 1990s, government authorities evicted the Batwa from the forest and their home in the name of free land for wildlife and forest conservation. The evictions left the Batwa struggling to survive and facing extreme discrimination on the margins of their former home. These forests lie within the biodiversity-rich Albertine Rift eco-region and are sites of global biodiversity importance, famously home to half of the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas.
In Born From Here, we hear the lasting impacts on their health, culture, and livelihoods 30 years on from evictions. The episode features Batwa herbalists, artists, and rare insights from Elders on their experiences of living in and out of the forest.  
Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode, Born from Here, is also produced with Action for Batwa Empowerment Group.

This is the B-side for episode 5 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, Born From Here/ Nkanzarirwa Hanu.
The B-side shares ambient sounds of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. We hear from Batwa herbalists, artists, and rare insights from Elders.
For a full narrative exploration of the stories from our partners in the Batwa community download Episode 5 – Born From Here/Nkanzarirwa Hanu.
Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode, Born from Here, is also produced with Action for Batwa Empowerment Group.
Learn more: https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

Land Body Ecologies Podcast is a series of six stand-alone episodes sharing stories of solastalgia from land-dependent and Indigenous communities affected by environmental change. In Episode 5, Born From Here, we travel to the edges of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forests in Kanungu district in Southwestern Uganda. Looking to the dense green hills that hold fields of sunflowers and ridges overlooking sacred trees, listeners hear stories of the ancestral land of the Batwa community.
Clouds constantly rise and fall in the hills of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This is known as Muntaba and is a place the Batwa would not visit as it is meant to be spiritual and sited with gold. The Batwa were once forest dwellers who used to live in Ekyuya, Semuliki, Bwindi, and Mgahinga, their ancestral lands in Uganda. In the early 1990s, government authorities evicted the Batwa from the forest and their home in the name of free land for wildlife and forest conservation. The evictions left the Batwa struggling to survive and facing extreme discrimination on the margins of their former home. These forests lie within the biodiversity-rich Albertine Rift eco-region and are sites of global biodiversity importance, famously home to half of the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas.
In Born From Here, we hear the lasting impacts on their health, culture, and livelihoods 30 years on from evictions. The episode features Batwa herbalists, artists, and rare insights from elders on their experiences of living in and out of the forest.  
Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode, Born from Here, is also produced with Action for Batwa Empowerment Group.

This is the B-side for episode 4 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The Crying Place.
The B-side shares open fields and the sounds of rain on the village hut roofs. We hear Swae roasting the coffee he grows, the sound of rice paddies through the water, and the songs sung by a family.
For a full narrative exploration of the harvest season of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community, download Episode 4 – The Crying Place.

The Crying Place is produced by Invisible Flock with Joni Odochao, Siwakorn Odochao, Jennifer Katanyoutanant and Land Body Ecologies.
Learn more: https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

The Crying Place shares a story of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community from the hilly regions of Ban Nong Tao, held at the base of rocky mountain faces and green forests. In this episode, listeners are invited to experience the harvest season of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community and encouraged to slow down for the earth.In Pgak’yau, Haku (ฮากุ) means the crying place. That is what we call the earth. In all important moments, we cry. When we are born we cry, when we feel happy we cry, and we cry because we suffer. Pgak’yau philosophy expresses the need to slow down for the earth, and the need to take care and take accountability for our world. This episode is narrated by legendary activist and campaigner Joni Odochao and his son Siwakorn Odochao on the ongoing land rights of the Pgak’yau community and their advocacy for traditional rotational farming. Both land rights and advocacy are realised “heu”, meaning little by little, step by step.The Crying Place is produced by Invisible Flock with Joni Odochao, Siwakorn Odochao, Jennifer Katanyoutanant and Land Body Ecologies. For further details, transcript and images from the process please visit the show notes. The B-side of this podcast is also available. To listen to this, please find it on our podcast page.
Learn more: https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

This is the B-side for episode 3 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The End Of This World.
This B-side holds the clicks of reindeer hooves and low reindeer barks as they circle through the annual corral. It draws listeners along to the sounds of autumn, and the sounds of the landscape changing. Beginning at the lake, it moves up into the mountains, past melting glaciers, windning through black birch forests before ending with the reindeers released back into the vast landscape as they begin their winter migration.
For a full narrative exploration of the convergence of Sámi territories, past, present, and future, download Episode 3 – The End of This World.

This episode is produced by Invisible Flock with Jenni Laiti, Carl-Johan Utsi and Land Body Ecologies.