“My ask of humans is quite large,” says the northern bat to a room of reindeer, wolf lichen, bog, and other beings. “It’s a shift of consciousness, and an understanding that … we are a relation.” The scene could come from a sci-fi novel imagining a more-than-human uprising. In fact, it’s from a recent “interspecies council” in Oppdal, Norway, in which non-humans – spoken for by humans – convened to discuss the region’s future. In the 1980s, the environmentalists John Seed and Joanna Macy developed the Council of All Beings: a practice in which humans embody and represent other species
Week in wildlife: an ostrich on the lam, a tortoise crossing a road and surfing seals
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