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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Galina Angarova on the indigenous relationship to land, conservation, and the sacred feminine
Description: 'Without the land, indigenous people cannot exist' the new leader of Cultural Survival, Galina Angarova, tells host Mike G. in this new episode. Raised in a Buryat community in Siberia, she's had a number of top roles through the years, but her recent appointment to this key indigenous rights organization is perhaps the most important one yet. She grew up eating wild berries, mushrooms, nuts, wild garlic, deer, and more on the shores of Lake Baikal, and therefore has a strong sense of relationship to the land and how important it is that indigenous peoples like her c...