For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia’s Gambella region and Africa’s largest wetland, the Sudd, in South Sudan, birds are gaatkuoth or “sacred children ...
In the lead up to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15), currently taking place in Zimbabwe, Mongabay interviewed Abebayehu Aticho about the spiritual ties, symbiotic relationships of Nuer people ...