Saving Ourselves: A Story From the Bambuti People

The Bambuti people from Eastern Congo were forcefully evicted from their native forest, the Kahuzi Biega Forest, in the 1980s by their government and funded by environmental conservation organizations. After these evictions, this now landless community was forced to live as squatters along roads and in small villages in Kalonge. This film explores how the Bambuti began to organize themselves and other Indigenous communities in the region to fight for their rights and to protect their land from government destruction and mismanagement. Protecting Indigenous land rights is one of the most important actions for mitigating climate change and building local resilience to its impacts globally.


Song: Mobimba ya mama
Artist: Awilo Longomba
Album: Coupé bibamba
Licensed to YouTube by: Believe A. (on behalf of Jimmy’s Production); SODRAC, and 2 Music Rights Societies

A Regenerative Secret – Kiss The Ground

“A Regenerative Secret” is a powerful mini-documentary that breaks the thinking that cows are the problem. Contrasting the catastrophe of the current cattle industry with the hopeful and inspiring paradigm of Regenerative Ranching. This emerging form of ranching is not only restoring ecosystems but also reversing global warming, restoring watersheds and helping ranchers across the world become more prosperous.

Presented by Kiss the Ground Produced and created by Finian Makepeace
A film by Ben Cowan & Taliesin Black-Brown, Zephyr Visuals
Starring Dr. Allen Williams and Finian Makepeace
Made possible by Joyce Farms, Savory Institute, and Belcampo Meat Co.
Special thanks to Belcampo Farms (Gazelle, CA), Dharma Lea (Sharon Springs, NY), Freestone Ranch (Valley Ford, CA)