The Herds: Life-sized puppets flee climate change

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  Between April and August 2025,

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  a herd of life-size puppet animals travelled 20,000 kilometres from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle,

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  creating a vast work of public art about the need for climate change action.

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  I'm Roger James Ellsgood.

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  And I've been following the herds for this edition of In The Studio.

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  This is Amir Nizar Zouabi, the acclaimed Palestinian theatre maker.

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  Nizar created the herd and is the artistic director of the project.

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  When I was thinking of this project,

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  the first image was a group of animals somewhere in the rainforests of the Congo.

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  Perk up.

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  They get alarmed.

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  they feel that something is completely wrong and they start running.

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  And as they run, more and more animals join them.

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  And it's mystical.

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  It's not completely explained.

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  Nobody really knows why it's happening.

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  And that's the energy I wanted to convey.

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  This energy is best conveyed without long speeches.

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  Sometimes words deconstruct, not construct.

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