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Western Santo Custom and Conservation Festival highlights traditional knowledge, culture. Photo -Santo Sunset Environment Network (SSEN).
September 22, 2021
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Chiefs and traditional authorities of Western Santo have successfully concluded a Custom and Conservation Festival this month...With custom stories, dancing, music, cooking, slow food, agriculture, hunting, handicraft, and tabu histories, the Festival, hosted by Elia community, was the first ever gathering that reaffirms the priority for custom-based sustainable development in an area that is being increasingly targeted by foreign companies and interests for logging, mining and other extractive industries.

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