THE HERDS, an international public art and climate action project which is taking life-size animal puppets on a journey through major cities in Africa and Europe, begins it's trek in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa. The epic journey which ends in the Arctic Circle aims to highlight the impact of climate change on animals.
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00:00This project tries to give the public a powerful emotional sense
00:29of what's happening to the planet by this journey, by now 20, later 40, later 70 animals
00:39from all over West Africa, Morocco, Europe
00:44who are travelling to escape from the damage done to their ecosystem.
00:59In this project we start from the strictly only cardboard but then because of the challenges
01:05of the cardboard we ended up adding wood which is plywood and then the material that we are
01:11using is mostly recycled material which is the cardboard that you can see on the animals,
01:16the skin is made out of cardboard and then the joints is the black rubber tendons.
01:22We believe thousands and thousands of people are watching us.
01:27We believe out of these thousands, maybe ten, will take out something on what we are doing
01:32and then take it back to their communities, to their cities.
01:35If we can do this, maybe this is how we can save the earth because this is all about the climate crisis.
01:43Let's see if our eyes are too comfortable.
01:47Let's do this.
01:48I will do this.
01:50Let's go, let's go.
01:51Let's go!