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| - | Pacific Indigenous leaders have a new plan to protect whales. Treat them as people | + | Fed-up Italian farmers set up mountain turnstiles |
| - | For Māori conservationist Mere Takoko, “losing one whale is like losing an ancestor.” The animals “taught our people about navigation across the Pacific, particularly across the Milky Way… And this is information that was given to our ancestors.” | + | |
| - | The environmental activist from the small town of Rangitukia, on New Zealand’s east coast, is spearheading a movement of Indigenous groups in the Pacific pushing to protect the magnificent marine mammals, inking a groundbreaking treaty to make them legal persons with inherent rights. | + | If Carlo Zanella, president of the Alto Adige Alpine Club, had his way, travel influencers would be banned from the Dolomites. |
| - | The document is part of a multi-pronged effort to safeguard whales, which also includes quantifying their monetary value as carbon-depleting “bioengineers | + | He blames them for the latest Italian social media trend, which has lured hundreds |
| - | While the declaration is non-binding and would still need government recognition | + | In response |
| - | “Our mokopuna (grandchildren) deserve an ocean brimming with life, where the melodies of whales echo across | + | Photos showing lines of up to 4,000 people a day, have been popping up on social media in recent weeks. But rather than deter people from coming, the images have acted as a magnet. |
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| + | “The media’s been talking about the turnstiles, everyone’s been talking about it,” says Zanella. “And people go where everyone else goes. We’re sheep.” | ||
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| + | Italian law mandates free access to natural parks, such as the Alps and Dolomites, but the landowners who set up the turnstiles say they have yet to receive any official pushback | ||
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| + | Georg Rabanser, a former Italian national team snowboarder who owns land in a meadow on Seceda, told the Ladin-language magazine La Usc he and others started charging tourists to cross their land to make a point. | ||
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| + | “So many people come through here every day, everyone goes through our properties | ||