Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱

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Gobabeb Namib Research Institute

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

☀️ A mega-🧵 with chapter links about

#Etosha Pan to the #SkeletonCoast:
#Conservation Histories, Policies & Practices in North-west #Namibia 🇳🇦

#OpenAccess, co-edited with Ute Dieckmann @UniCologne & Selma Lendelvo @unam_na

@BathSpaUni @EtoshaKunene >

https://t.co/doFYHcima8

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@JournoJane I wrote about this a while ago - it breaks my heart 💔 https://t.co/tEaQwJs3VJ

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@ArmatradingJoan I love this album. You played "Love and Affection" at Cropredy and I loved it as always 💕

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@MusicJim2 Brilliant song. I saw Midnight Oil in Auckland, a long time ago. They played this song 🙂

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@MusicJim2 I was there. I was 16!
It was a spectacular event - so many great musicians 💕

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

Rest in peace Sam Neill. You will always be loved and forever missed. Thank you for being you and blessing us with your talent. Sending love to you, your family, your friends and your fans all over the world.

#SamNeill

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@DireStraits77 Love this song 💕

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@mikegarson Your playing on this (and other tracks) is amazing!

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@rodneycloete You might also like this chapter about
!nara use in the northern Namib -
"Cultural heritage and histories of the Northern Namib / Skeleton Coast National Park"🙂
https://t.co/LgfB3tTO4j

[Rodney Cloete @rodneycloete]

Namibia is a dry country and you cannot drink Uranium! A Farmer like him should understand the importance of water..

Leaked documents from Forbidden Stories show SWAPO’s Herunga asked Russian agents for N$3 million to fund election day paying activists, printing T-shirts, transporting voters.

President NNN thanked her “Russian friends” and asked for help done “cleanly.”

Foreign agents interfered in our democracy.

When I asked questions about this in Parliament, the Speaker BLOCKED me.

Provide evidence first. Since when do questions need proof? That’s what questions ARE.

Now the the SAME Russia is being handed a 25-year uranium mine in the Stampriet aquifer the drinking water for 80,000 Namibians. Acid pumped into your water. 30,000 times above WHO safety limits.

Russia pays → SWAPO wins → Russia gets the mine → Your water gets poisoned →

Anyone who asks gets silenced.

We will NOT be silenced. Namibia’s water is not payment for SWAPO’s election.
#Namibia

[Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦 @ConservationNa1]

Are Namibia's insects declining? Anecdotal evidence suggests they are. This is an urgent call for research and action.
https://t.co/35B7YsXgRG

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@davidbowie_news Love this album 🤩

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

Suro Ganuses and I have worked together since 1994. Suro is Indigenous Damara/ǂNūkhoen. I have learned loads from her, and through our wider collaborations.

Here we are 🙂

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🌍 New co-authored article in the Namibian Journal of Environment - special issue on #Conservation and #Land (more below!)

Cover by Clarance Geingob, who has completed multiple illustrations for research we're doing on one of the first anti-colonial Uprisings in north-west #Namibia (1897-1898)

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

Our co-authored article is called:

"How conservation may make cultural heritage invisible:
Intersecting on-site oral histories with land claims for settler #colonialism, #conservation and #tourism in north-west #Namibia"

Abstract shared below ⬇️

See https://t.co/AdLRSfX7hc

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

Both Ruben & Jeff also have chapters in our Big Book "Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast" - now with over 2,700 downloads 🙂

See Chapter 5 and Chapter 8...
https://t.co/doFYHcima8

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation!

'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'

https://t.co/lo11tmsNwb

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

Highlights & Abstract here ⬇️

Led by Ruben Schneider, with Jeff Muntifering of @SRTNamibia & me of
@BathSpaUni & @GobabebRSH as co-authors.

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@THEKaikaifilu @CWitvrouwen Most people I talk to don't really want this. The idea of sticking animal heads on walls is considered very weird.
At the same time, living alongside eles can be challenging of course.

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

@CWitvrouwen Here's an image from that weekend in 1994. I was sitting on a kopje with people from the area. They were appreciative of the elephant, but also concerned about what impacts they might have...

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

Elephant moved back to the Ugab on Easter w/e in 1994, after about 50 years' absence. I was working with people there at the time. We watched the elephant moving into the river.
It caused people to move their houses to higher ground (a lot of work!). A child was killed on way to school. It's caused a lot of challenges but of course tourists love to see the eles.