Right now Kim, Pinky, Daisy, and I are attending Wild COP27 (Nov 6-18), Land Animals section. This is the first time I’m attending and it’s a lot crazier than I had expected, borderline terrifying actually. I’m not used to having to interact with Polar Bears and large owls, so several times in the past few days I’ve been close to freaking out. It’s all very educational though, we’re all learning a lot and we’re glad we made the journey here. Some of the data and perspectives we’ve heard during sessions have really forced us to reconsider some of the things we put into our latest videos (the environment and ecology videos I was finishing up right before coming here), which means I may have to re-record or edit some parts when I get back to the desert. It’s sad that the people version going on in Sharm el-Sheikh won’t hear any animal perspectives, or even have any (human) animal representatives present. I know that there are scientists and activists at human COP27 but it’s not the same thing.

This morning an elephant became so upset watching a recap of one of yesterday’s Egyptian sessions that she tore a large video monitor off the wall and trampled it. Everybody ran out of there so quickly. Funny to say, though - at the moment it was happening I also ran out of the room because, well, ANGRY ELEPHANT - but at the same time i felt like, “Yes! Thank you!!”

I bet no one at the Egypt COP27 will be smashing TVs.

~d.